Technology posts
Last Saturday, I was invited to talk at the Social Media Day 2017 Manila to talk about coding or programming. It was on very short notice as I was only informed about it a little less than a week. But I still took up the challenge as I know I would be able to help …
Today, I decided to cash out a fraction of my Bitcoin (BTC) earnings. I invested in Bitcoin August last year and it has dramatically increased 5 times already. I bought BTC valued at $500+/- last year. It’s not that I’m short-sighted on this investment, I just want something tangible that will materialized the initial investment …
Last May 26, I have successfully passed the 2017-PHP Zend Certified Engineer Exam. I crammed my review in a month, but was still able to keep up my pace. You can view my profile at the Zend Yellow Pages as I am now a Zend Certified Engineer. When I graduated in college way back in 2007, …
So today, I finally decided to upgrade my laptop to the latest PHP version as of this writing, which is 7.1.4. Now, some people were wondering why they skipped version 6. When I went to the PHP Conference Asia 2015 in Singapore, Rasmus Lerdorf himself told us in his keynote speech that they intentionally skipped …
As my birthday approaches and as I’m nearing 31, I was reading about Software Developers on their 40s up and found this interesting article. I witnessed how my father wrote programs when I was young. He would blankly stare at his laptop for minutes, writing things, then deleting them, repeat & rinse. I thought it …
I’m fairly new to Unit Testing using Codeception. I did some Test Plans and Execution some 4 years ago during my stint as a Software Design Engineer in a Japanese company. I pretty much enjoyed gathering all test scenarios, from Normal to Semi-Normal to Abnormal cases.
I have 2 domains now since I acquired www.ridvanbaluyos.com. I was using the ridvan.baluyos.net for almost 6 years now and has been riding on to my brother’s hosting. I just thought it was about time I buy my own and go on independent. My older domain (or subdomain) has more hits and is getting crawled …
This is an old trick and there are tons of how-to’s over the internet. I’m posting this for my own reference but it might help some developers looking for this solution. Okay, so here’s the problem. I have a dedicated server hosted at DigitalOcean and all it gives you is the IP address and a …
Okay, so today I woke up and the remaining users before we reach Sulit.com.ph’s 2,000,000,000 users is almost less than 10 already. We’ve been on a whole day watch since yesterday and the forecast was between 7am-10am. There was a 30-minute delay in the forecast but it was still a good forecast by RJ David, …
Corporate policies have always been there. In my company, we’ve been forced to use Windows boxes and all other ports are blocked except for port 80, which is generally used for web browsing. Now, I am a developer and I love to explore things. Anyway, I needed to configure my workstation to suit my needs. …