Jojo Siao

When: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM – January 30, 2010, Saturday
Where: Hotel Rembrandt – 26 Tomas Morato Extension Quezon City, Philippines
Google Map Location

In partnership with Microsoft Philippines, PHP User Group Philippines
presents PHP Developers Summit 2010. We are inviting you to come and join us in this gathering of the country’s best tech-talents, professionals and web developers promoting the use of PHP and open source solutions in the enterprise and schools. Free flowing coffee with lots of freebies and raffle prizes! So what are you waiting for?

Registration starts at 8:00 AM. See you all there! ^_~

Speakers:

• Dominick Nowell A. Danao (CEO of Happy Mobile Inc.) – Former VASHead of Sun Cellular. Founder of Pinoymail which he sold to Smart’s Orlando Vea for P100M back in the early 2000s. He is also a Palanca Awardee. He will discuss PHP Development with Yahoo Developer’s Network. He recently won in the Yahoo Open Hack’s Day in Indonesia.
  Bing Bryan Tan (President and CEO of Brewed Concepts) – Keynote Speaker
  Paolo Alexis Falcone (Senior Developer, Friendster Inc.) – Will discuss PHP Scaling
  Alezandra Nicholas (Microsoft Developer Evangelist) – Website spark and Bizspark
  Rodney Jao (MCP) – PHP in IIS7 (using Fast CGI) and about PHP and ASP.NET interop via SOAP
  Rick Bahague, Jr. (Computer Professionals’ Union) – Windows Cache Extension for PHP
  Globe Labs – Globe Labs API

Sponsors:

Microsoft Philippines
Zend
Globe Labs

Limited Special Offer

If you register early and pay within the year 2009, you’ll get a
ticket for only Php 1,000.00 and we’ll give you One (1) FREE Microsoft
limited edition thumb drive.

Registration and Ticket Payment Instructions

Online registration website is currently being tested right now. In
the mean time, you could pre-register by sending your name, position,
company and contact details to chean [ at ] phpugph [ dot ] com and by settling your
ticket payment through bank deposit:

Bank Name: Banco de Oro (BDO)
Account Name: PHP User Group Philippines Inc.
Savings Account No. 290226988
Branch: San Juan Branch

To all who would pay for the event tickets, kindly send me a scanned
copy of the deposit slip for payment confirmation.

Thank you very much.

Truly yours,
Cherrie Ann B. Domingo
President
PHP User Group Philippines Inc.

Email: chean [ at ] phpugph [ dot ] com
Web: http://www.phpugph.com
Mobile: +63917.865.2412
Phone: (02) 975.6976

If an organization, whether IT-related or non-IT related, hires a pool of programmers, one might closely think how these programmers will be able to work in good harmony and coordination. If they do not follow best team practices and the team is just relatively new, the natural tendency would be that they work very limited only to their own duties, concerned about how they did their work. They might fear for the loss of their jobs, encouraging competition and comparison among them, thus leading them to lesser productivity and ownership.

So, the question here is this: should an organization conceptualize and implement “house rules for programmers?” I see that some might go against it, saying that their way of doing things has been for long time already and it has been working since then. While the others are for it because their concern is for continuous improvement.

How should house rules be implemented then? Does it involve attendance ? performance appraisal? Does it need to be specific in terms of coding practices?

I guess I should leave this issue open-ended so I can gather comments and suggestions.  I am about to form our own house rules at work.

I was creating some php scripts on my own windows XP pc at work with XAMPP, but then  I encountered a problem when connecting to our MSSQL server located within the company LAN. I checked my access details – the username, the password, the database name – they are all correct. I even checked phpinfo.  MSSQL support is enabled.

I don’t know, but according to some, copying ntwdblib.dll to WINDOWS\system32 folder will solve the problem. But in my case, it still didn’t change anything.

For your information,  Error Message Severity Levels for SQL server 2000 can be reached here.

I am currently building a system at work and one of its required features is user authentication. I used restful_authentication in a previous personal project, but last week, I just found out a new simpler user authentication system in railscasts.com called AuthLogic. I tried to integrate it to my project only to encounter another problem. It fails to validate password confirmation form field. Here’s the screenshot to that at twitpic.com.

So, can you suggest a nicer user authentication system in ROR? Please share!

My colleagues prepared a mini-party to celebrate my birthday at the office. Here’s some of the pics.

My domain is getting 1 year older on September 18, 2009. Happy bday to you too!

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