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Pangkaraniwang Developer – matuto ng Computer Science at Programming

By Bry On May 17, 2012 · Add Comment · In Brain Dumps, Site News, Software Development, Software Engineering, Training
“Turuan ang sinumang Pilipino na gustong matuto ng Programming o Computer Science.” If there’s a tagline for my current project, Pangkaraniwang Developer, that would be it. No need for a lengthy blog post, just head over to the About page and learn why I’m doing this. Donations are always welcome. LOL
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Surreal thing about Startup Weekend Manila

By Bry On May 3, 2012 · Add Comment · In Brain Dumps, Event Report, Software Development
I didn’t get to tweet this but I think it deserves at least a short blog post. Last Sunday, while waiting for the final pitches, I (an unemployed slacker, LOL) got to sit at the same table as John Arce of WebGeek, Jason Torres of Proudcloud and ArtisteConnect, Rico Sta. Cruz of (among other things) [...]
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MySQL tuning and Rails Best Practices talks from Friendster

By Bry On April 26, 2012 · Add Comment · In Brain Dumps, Software Development
Just posted the videos from last night’s PhRUG meetup over at the website. Go over there and watch them now.
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How to prepare for a Technical Interview

By Bry On April 14, 2012 · Add Comment · In Brain Dumps, Software Engineering, Training
With April being the graduation month here in the Philippines, you’ll be seeing fresh graduates in various forums and discussion groups looking for advice on how to pass technical interviews. Here’s one posted over at the PHP Users Group forum earlier today: Can you help me with this? I’m going to take a technical written [...]
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Quick Look at Notepad++ as a Windows Ruby/Rails Editor

By Bry On March 30, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Brain Dumps, Software Development
Last year, I looked at the better Ruby/Rails editors in Windows. With Notepad++ version 6 released recently, I decided to check whether it’s good enough to be an alternative to those two. Screenshot again with my depressing lotto app: Overall, it’s ok, especially with the Explorer plugin. However, there are still a bunch of stuff [...]
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Other languages you should learn

By Bry On March 28, 2012 · Add Comment · In Brain Dumps, Follow-Up, Software Engineering
At first glance, this tweet in response to my previous post looks like a simple joke. But it’s actually true the more you think about it. Understanding body language is important because software engineering is more about dealing with people than with software itself: almost all failed software projects are due to people problems (e.g. [...]
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What programming language should I learn?

By Bry On March 20, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Brain Dumps, Software Engineering, Training
I got to talk for DevCon again last Saturday at STI Makati. Instead of preparing a new talk, I just rehashed an old talk to save time. The new talk is also over at Slideshare. Anyway, the point of this post is to answer a question posed to me by a student in the Q&A [...]
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Quick Tips on Installing Mint on a Laptop

By Bry On February 28, 2012 · Add Comment · In Brain Dumps, Hardware
A recent system upgrade gave me a spare SSD for my laptop. I decided to install Linux Mint on it given my good experience on the Ubuntu based OS. Here are some tips/thoughts related to this install: Gnome 3 = Full Retard mode It’s been a while since Ubuntu introduced Unity as the default display [...]
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Changing Gimp’s Default Save Folder

By Bry On February 21, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Brain Dumps, Productivity
Having to deal with image manipulation every once in a while, having Gimp not remember my last save folder is a bit annoying since my image folder isn’t the same as My Pictures. A quick Google search later, I found that the fix was pretty easy. The trick here is that Gimp considers the current [...]
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Convert FanFiction.net Stories into PDF

By Bry On February 19, 2012 · Add Comment · In Brain Dumps, Software Development, Training
Had a coding itch last week related to web scraping and LaTeX PDF conversion. One thing led to another and the end result was my first ever Ruby Gem: ffnpdf, a tool that converts FanFiction.net stories into PDF files. (Great for putting your favorite Harry Potter slash fics on your mobile phone or tablet for [...]
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