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Microsoft Windows XP SP3 now officially available

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Service Pack 3 of MS Windows XP went out last April 29, but it wasn’t final yet. It was only available in the Windows Download site.
Today, WinXP SP3 is finally available via the Windows Update. You should be getting alerts by now if you have Automatic Updates enabled on your Windows PCs.
The final build [...]

Chime in: after upgrading to SP1, is Vista still bad?

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

I was reading through one of ZDnet’s blogs that deals on how can Microsoft overcome Vista’s image problem. I noted the following:

Microsoft says it has sold 140 million copies of Vista. There are 2,700 logo’d Vista apps (ten times more than existed at launch). Ninety-six percent of new system runing Vista have all [...]

phpDesigner 2008: More than Just a PHP IDE

Friday, March 7th, 2008

If people ask me who are the best developers of IDE’s (Integrated Development Environment) then I have to say that hand’s down its Microsoft. For me, nothing compares with the ease of use of their Visual Studio Platform. Not to mention the responsiveness it has when running in the Windows Platform.

2008 International Model Your Campus Competition

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Google is hosting the 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition. If you are into 3D modelling or have some good graphic background, why not join the Google SketchUp’s 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition.

PHP Everywhere on December 1, 2007

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

The PHP Users Group of the Philippines (PHPUGPH) is holding their first ever conference on December 1, 2007 at the Crown Regency Hotel in Manila. The event will start at 9 in the morning and will last till 6 in the evening.
A follow up to their very successful April Meetup, the goal [...]

Rediscovering the Thunder in Thunderbird

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Eons ago when I had to wake up at exactly 6am every weekday just so I won’t be late for work, I start every day by opening Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client, which manages three separate e-mail accounts, two of them international and the other intra-company.  I remember how it worked beautifully for us.   Lag times were almost [...]

Running with Leopard

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

I’ve been running Apple’s new Leopard for a couple of days now. So far all I can say that it is an impressive upgrade. It’s hard to believe that this is considered just an “incremental” upgrade—from 10.4 to 10.5. I’ve been chronicling my impressions at Macpinoy, but here is what I have [...]

My Friend’s Google Engineering Interview

Monday, November 5th, 2007

My friend Cha Gascon applied to Google Engineering and flew to Zurich for an interview. This is her story.

What’s next after F#? G#?

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Microsoft’s Functional programming language, dubbed as F#, will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. Hmmm, what’s the next Microsoft development? G#? Hehe.

Open Source Bill revamp - a slower, more practical pace maybe?

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

The world celebrated Software Freedom Day last September 15 and I saw that Chin Wong attended the event that was held in ASTI. In any case, his blog gives us a glimpse of Rep. Teddy Casino’s efforts in making open source software more widely-adopted in our country. To quote:
For example, it gives government agencies [...]

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