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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 AM. See you all there!

Date: January 30, 2010, Saturday
Time: 8.00 AM – 5.00 PM
Venue: Hotel Rembrandt
             26 Tomas Morato Extension Quezon City, Philippines
Location Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=13146968077348134590&q=hotel%2Brembrandt%2Bquezon%2Bcity%2Baddress

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@phpugph.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.

Cherrie Ann B. Domingo
President
PHP User Group Philippines Inc.
Web: http://www.phpugph.com

Here’s an announcement on their site:

Yahoo! acquires Xoopit.
Xoopit is joining Yahoo! to make the world’s best email even better.

Yahoo! will be integrating both our photo sharing applications and our content indexing and discovery technology into Yahoo! Mail and other services over the coming months.

Xoopit has emerged as a leader in mail applications, indexing and content discovery. Yahoo! has recognized that Xoopit’s technology elevates photos to the forefront of people’s everyday email experiences. Mail is the original online photo sharing experience, and combining these two products results in an evolved inbox experience. Yahoo! Mail users can expect to see their mail become even more efficient, social and fun!

The Xoopit team would like to thank our users for all the support and guidance in developing a service that people love. We would also like to thank our angels and venture investors, Charles Moldow from Foundation Capital and Theresia Gouw Ranzetta from Accel Partners for wisdom and commitment along the way!

The official announcement from Yahoo! can be found here.

Dear Xoopit team, I hope you’ll never share our Gmail account information to Yahoo! Thanks and looking forward to the Yahoo! Mail integration.

Graphic Designer vs client [90% profanity might not be safe for work]

Do you like Brazilian beauties like Marcella (above)? Wanna meet masters of jiu jitsu? Well, if you dig straight down from Manila and never stop, you’ll end up in Brazil. That’s according to Ze Frank. (Note: I haven’t tried it and I have no plan of trying it).

Pretty cool to know if that’s true huh? Start digging!

Photo source: Flickr

Bubbleshare, my first online photo sharing site is closing its doors on November 15, 2009. I think Bubbleshare was one of the first online photo sharing site that utilized AJAX and did it really well. Founded by Albert Lai, it’s his 2nd startup. The 1st one was MyDesktopNetwork which was sold in 1999. Bubbleshare was acquired by Kaboose Inc for US$ 2.3M in 2007.

Here’s Bubbleshare’s announcement today:

Dear Bubbleshare member –

As of November 15, 2009, Bubbleshare.com will no longer be available and all links to all albums and photos will cease to function (including existing links within emails, blogs, etc). To access your photos in the future you will need to download your photos prior to November 15, 2009.

To save your images to your desktop, simply click the "Download Album" link next to your albums and double click on original photos. Your photos will then be saved to your desktop.

Again, all photos and albums must be removed prior to November 15, 2009. Effective immediately, you will no longer be able to upload any new photos or albums.

We apologize for the inconvenience. It was our pleasure to assist you with your photo sharing needs.
Thank you.

Sincerely,
The Bubbleshare Team

Good luck to the Bubbleshare team. It was really fun using the free online photo sharing site.

Google Reader just released new features such as people you can now follow, liking a post, grouping of people you follow, finding publicly shared items. Features seems familiar? Yes, you got it right. They’ve been features of FriendFeed for quite some time now.

Your move FriendFeed.

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Adobe BrowserLab is a new cool web service that helps you test your web pages across a different web browsers and operating systems.

Adobe BrowserLab currently supports Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on both Mac and Windows XP. Just enter the website’s URL and it will take screenshots of your web page on different browsers and platforms. It displays the result using 1-up (on its own screenshot), 2-up (side by side comparison) and my favorite Onion Skin View (as shown below) where you can quickly pinpoint differences.

One awesome feature of the Onion Skin View is you can use the a slider to fade in/out of each browser screenshot. Pretty cool!

Hopefully Adobe will support more browsers and operating systems in the future.

Google Wave Developer Preview presentation at the Day 2 Keynote of Google I/O. To learn more visit http://wave.google.com

I’m not sure how/why these activation URLs were crawled by Googlebot but yes, Google still publicly shows some WordPress.com usernames and the email addresses associated with the username.

Ha! Now all hackers need is the password (no pun intended). Clearly, this is not good. But who is to blame? Google? Wordpress? Or the end-user? Quite frankly, I am not sure. But I do know that it is time to change some of those information starting with the email address associated with that account.

Also, don’t forget making your password a bit stronger/longer using uppercases, numbers and character combinations.

So, how do you get this result? Simply enter “site:en.WordPress.com “your account is now active”” or click this link.

How do you find if your username was crawled? Add your username at the end like this:
“site:WordPress.com “your account is now active” johnsmith”

I suggest you change them now. It’s better safe than sorry.

Ted Roden of enjoysthin.gs sent me stickers last winter and I’ve totally forgot to thank him. Hey Ted, thanks for the stickers, and for the awesome effort! I really appreciate it. My notebook is “enjoying” them!

Send me your address and I’ll send some tokens your way.

Talk to you soon!

AJ

Visit Ted Roden’s blog, take a look at enjoysthin.gs and subscribe to his FriendFeed here. He’s really one cool guy!

Here’s my enjoysthin.gs and my FriendFeed is here.