existence, refactored

Last talk for the year (barring a possible surprise talk at Code Retreat): a talk about current trends in web technologies at DevCon UPHSD. This time it’s a 20 minute talk that I had to drag out to 40+ minutes to cover for the missing speakers. Good thing I wasn’t pressured to deliver it in English.

So yeah, we had 2 missing speakers, leaving Alvin and I to handle everything.

But surprisingly, this DevCon event was far better than the one in DLSU (read: a more prestigious university) mainly because the students were really interested in what the two of us have to say. Sure, our talks may have been boring for most of the audience, but by the time we left the campus, we’ve fielded over a dozen questions, mostly from students who approached us after the event ended.

In comparison, AFAIK, only one student asked a question in DLSU.

Pride? Apathy? I really don’t know.

Anyway, here’s my talk and the slides.

Did a lightning talk for DevCon DLSU last Wednesday. Not really liking the end result. My decision to deliver it in English is mainly to blame: I wrongly guessed that La Salle students would react better to English than Tagalog (the latter I prefer when giving talks), and all I got from it was having my lack of practice look more obvious.

I think the worst part about my talk was the way how the “sarcastic-whiny-tone” I use in my normal everyday Tagalog creeped into my usually more professional sounding English voice. I’ll probably have to do weeks of voice retraining to eliminate that. =/

Anyway, here is the video of the talk as well as the slides.

Spent the day tweaking my SweetCron based frontpage lifestream (nakikiuso as usual ). The theme’s currently a mix between Tarot and CCG frame templates. If all goes well, I should be able to tweak that to use more xxxHolic and Persona motifs.

It’s already 10 PM so I’ll keep this short.

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If you’re a Computer Science student, you should at least learn the following before graduating regardless if it’s in your college’s curriculum or not:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• basic photo-editing/image manipulation

Trust me on this.