August 24th, 2009 Adobe, in it’s arguably self-serving pursuit to make Flex more popular offered an online training module called Flex In A Week. Admittedly, it’s quite good. I’ve been using it but watching it online just doesn’t work for me since I don’t have continuous Internet access. I tried their suggestion for watching the videos online. Unfortunately, [...]
August 19th, 2009 Since my new project would require me to use web services, I decided to get my hands at it. Bottom-Up Approach To Writing Web Services The logical place to start would be take your plain old Java classes (POJOs, I love them) and expose their methods to to the web. Since you already have the [...]
August 15th, 2009 I have no computer, much more a network connection, at the new office I’m deployed to so I’m forced to use my netbook and phone for surfing and downloading. Needless to say, having both WiFi and HSDPA activated is a huge drain on the battery. So I looked around for a USB charger. The first [...]
August 13th, 2009 WiFi is good. Free WiFi is even better. But it’s quite scarce. One of the more prevalent free WiFi hotspots are the ones from WiGO. It’s advertisement driven so once you connect, you’re taken to a captive portal where you are shown some ads. So far so good. I mean, they have to make money [...]
August 12th, 2009 The less-than-a-year old paint job on my bumper got ruined again. Chei and I were driving along Ortigas when some stupid family driver (why do stupid people get to drive?) swerved from my LEFT towards Xavier St. on the right. He almost made it but his rear end clipped my front bumper scraping some paint [...]
August 11th, 2009 A bus ran over a two-year old girl and her mother at EDSA yesterday. The girl died while her mother sustained injuries. It was not too long ago when a prominent doctor’s car got hit by a bus killing the doctor and causing the car to go up in flames. That and many more. Every [...]
August 1st, 2009 Corazon Aquino, popularly knows as Cory to all Filipinos, former president of the Philippines, symbol of hope during the dark days of a dictatorship, has passed away after a long battle with cancer. Farewell. You will be missed by this country, by this people.