Month: May 2012

LobangClub / WebGeek Developer Challenge Analysis

LobangClub/WebGeek Developer Challenge

There were a bunch of tech events yesterday and among them was the awarding for the WebGeek/LobangClub Developer Challenge.

new iPad

obligatory mirror pic

This whole post will not be about my solution to the challenge, but a run through of the different approaches we participants used and presented during the meetup. The scores were close anyway, and it only happened that I chose a combination of techniques from the list below that yielded the highest score.

A word of warning, though: if you aren’t into computer science, linguistics, and math, it may be of your best interest not to continue on to the analysis below. :D

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Pangkaraniwang Developer – matuto ng Computer Science at Programming

“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

Surreal thing about Startup Weekend Manila

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) JS2Coffee and Sparkup, and Eric Su of PicLyf.

The surreal thing about this was not just the fact that I got to be with these big names in the local tech industry, but the fact that, contrary to what the tech media would lead you to believe, there was no “rockstar” thing going on in that table.

As it stood, we were just a bunch of people who build software talking about building software.

We need more of this in the tech industry: people collaborating and talking about great ideas, and less pissing matches and startup fan fiction.