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  • Google DevFest Manila 2011

    Google DevFest Manila 2011 is being held on September 19 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Conference Center in Makati. This year’s DevFest will focus on three bleeding-edge technologies: Android, HTML5 and Fusion Tables.

  • How to fix positioning problem using the Digg Digg plugin on WordPress

    Recently I installed the Digg Digg plugin which allowed me to display some nice social buttons at the left hand side of the site. I was running WordPress 3.2.1 using the Twenty Eleven theme and Digg Digg had some trouble with the display. The floating buttons worked fine scrolling down but would change positions upon…

  • The Evolution of a Programmer

    In an e-mail being passed around in the office: The Evolution of a Programmer High School/Jr.High 10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD” 20 END First year in College program Hello(input, output) begin writeln(‘Hello World’) end. Senior year in College (defun hello (print (cons ‘Hello (list ‘World)))) New professional #include <stdio.h> void main(void) { char *message[] = {“Hello…

  • Fix WordPress MySQL out of memory error

    Lately this blog has been suffering from MySQL out of memory error messages which got worse as the days went by. Sometimes Is could not post stories, or my sidebar would not load. Other times I could not load the admin area, or my site went down entirely. After doing a bit of tracing and…

  • Basecamp to drop support for IE6

    Got this message when I logged into BaseCamp today. It appears that more and more businesses are now dropping support for antiquated browsers like IE6, which to me is a good sign and would pave the way to better internet standards. Important Reminder: IE 6 Phase Out In July we announced that we would be…

  • Clean up SQL injected database

    Had my hands full these past 2 months trying to fix SQL injected websites. It looks like this is the result of a recent string of attacks by Chinese hackers primarily exploiting websites running on ASP Classic with Microsoft SQL Server as the back-end database. Some of my sites had small amounts of data, which…

  • Using JQuery to make all PDF links open in a new window

    Sometimes it can be really annoying for the user to open a PDF file in the same window, and sometimes you might find yourself working on an existing website, faced with the insurmountable task of making sure all PDF links open in a new window. Just like today. Forget about manual editing, it will only…