I headed for a scheduled seminar at the EdTech center located inside Benavides Library. This seminar was a collaborative effort of two organizations, ISyS and TomasinoWeb, both of which are headed by students from the IS program. The seminar was about PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor), a scripting language embedded in HTML. I’m quite acquainted to this as I’ve been researching about this for the past months now. Unluckily, this topic is not included in our curriculum. But still, with the hope of finding a career in Web Development, I find myself utilizing every possible way of getting information about PHP.

The speaker of the event was no less than the UST webmaster himself, Mr. Jun Dolor. We’re quite acquainted with each other as he was the one who taught me and my colleagues last summer, at the TomWeb Summer Training, the Joomla CMS and many other things involving Web Development. The program started with a short prayer and an introduction of the speaker. Then after that, Mr. Dolor proceeded to show us some of his past and current projects. He also encouraged us to collaborate Read the rest of this entry…

Of all the programming books that I’ve read over the past, one thing is common; they all start on how to display two words, Hello World. A day before my 18th birthday, I finally worked on my first WordPress theme. Months of reading and ‘googling’ had paid off. My sleepless nights will, for now, be finally over. At last, I found something that I enjoy doing and for sure, will benefit me and my future career and to start is this first post on my blog (well, technically, this isn’t the first but the post before this was just generated by WordPress and I decided not to remove it).

Just a few months ago, I was so excited for my subject ICS7 (Interface Design and Web Technologies). It was the first time since my high school HTML lessons that I would be able to work on things concerning the internet. I can’t say that I’m truly a web savvy (though I have accounts on major networking and bookmarking sites, oh mind you, I have deleted my Friendster account) because I don’t have a stable internet connection and I’m not always online. But the fact that I’m pursuing a career in this field, I’m doing the best I can to be good at this. Read the rest of this entry…