March 2009

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PHP RoadShow :: Adamson University
03.15.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

Last saturday, March 14, 2009, I volunteered as one of the speakers for the PHP Roadshow – Adamson University Leg. There I presented my topic “Starting your programming career in PHP”.
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The hardships of working solo on projects
03.11.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Research regarding working solo on projects has just made me realize even more issues. Sadly, it is an undeniable fact that programming is a social activity and it is not fun working alone. These issues had not made me enjoy programming at all: 1. Better coding tricks and techniques ( if you couldn’t show them [...]
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Ruby on Rails Topic: Issue with Paperclip installation
03.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This is in regards to my personal project “frendsmo” which is a facebook/friendster clone. I am recently trying to build a Gallery page for the users where they can create, edit and delete photo albums. I looked at railscasts.com and downloaded their video tutorial on how to use Paperclip in ruby on rails. While in [...]
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Excel File seems corrupted…
03.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I had this cakephp project that has an option available for the user to download the data as excel file. Now, the problem is when the user downloads the file and attempts to open it using Microsoft Excel 2007, it complains to the user that the file seems to be corrupted (or I think, it [...]