What’s the news? I’ve moved to my newly forged blog, The Armorer’s Codex. Well, I still need to deploy my personalized set of plugins (or themes) there and i might also migrate the comments too if there’s time.
So.. update your links now to http://noel.feria.name/blog
See you there! 
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[Photo courtesy of airgap]
If you were able to track the posts I have made in this blog, you might be wondering why I have a gadget review all of a sudden. Well, I just tried requesting for a trial from WOMWorld just like what Kuya did to review the Nokia E71. In my case, I requested for a Nokia E90 Communicator that shall be returned to WOMWorld after having the opportunity to test it out for a span of 2 weeks. Isn’t that cool? It’s hot! 
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A couple of weeks ago, I got my free umobile SIM delivered at my mailbox for free as well. Isn’t that amazing?
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Join and be a part of the most anticipated IT event of the year – Y4iT 2008!
The University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UP ITTC) and UP System IT Foundation (UP SITF) in cooperation with the Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE), Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP), and UP ITTC Student Volunteer Corps, present this year’s Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology (Y4IT), which will be held simultaneously at the UP Theatre, UP Film Institute and UP Bahay ng Alumni from September 2-5.
Now on its sixth year, Y4IT has continuously been the largest gathering of IT enthusiasts from all over the country. This year, Y4IT will be even bigger and better with more than 17, 000 anticipated delegates.
Y4IT aims to introduce students, professionals, and enthusiasts alike to current trends in information and communications technology, providing knowledge sources and opening for them learning and career opportunities in ICT.
Featured in the four-day congress are timely and relevant topics like Nanobiophotonics & Wireless Technology, eLearning 2.0, Blogging, Creating Independent Filipino Games, Social Networking, Blu-Ray, Java Certification, PhilNITS as a National IT Standard, Open Solaris, Outsourcing & Offshoring, News Portals: The New Information Channel, Geographic Information Systems, Library 2.0 and Beyond, IT in Medicine, Video on Demand, Mobile Animation, Ruby on Rails, Java FX, Marketing Reloaded, Wikipedia & Collective Intelligence, Information Security Analytics, Digital Media & Distribution Channels, IT Forensics, Cloud Computing, and many more. Aside from these, there will also be a number of side events which include presentations and exhibits.
For more information, just visit http://y4it.up.edu.ph.
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Are you wondering what happened last night at the Globe iPhone 3G Countdown Launch Party?
Try to the watch the archived (live) streaming of the event at Qik and Bambuser! The Qik stream was captured through a Nokia E71 while the Bambuser stream was created through my Sony Ericsson P990i simultaneously.
Before the event, Kuya and I had dinner at Circles in Makati Shangri-la that was sponsored by Globe, and afterwards we proceeded to Ayala Tower One for the main event. I was not really into taking pictures because 1) there were so many flashes of light coming from everywhere which would only ruin my shots, 2) my mobile phone’s camera was not really that good + i got myself a shaky hand, and 3) i was actually planning of streaming the event live.
Unfortunately, I posted a wrong link of my other stream on my microblogging services (Twitter, Ping.fm) and I just realized it when I have checked the link at home. Obviously, I had a hard time figuring or remembering the link of my other stream since I don’t frequently use it and I was on mobile mode with both hands busy covering the event at the Ayala Tower One.
I was supposed to attend the successful BarCamp Manila yesterday but obviously it’s impossible to be in 2 places at the same time. 
So how about you? Are you planning to get an iPhone 3G too or do you have one already?
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Woot!~ I’m now registered to join my fellow WordPresses in the Philippines for the first WordCamp in Asia – WordCamp Philippines 2008!
But wait, what’s WordCamp all about?
Quoting from their site:
WordCamp is the premier event for WordPress users and developers. WordPress is arguably the #1 blogging platform in the world today. Apart from the fact that it is feature-packed, highly customizable and flexible, WordPress is open source, and therefore has a large community dedicated to advancing its development. And so, WordCamp is the best venue for WP enthusiasts to come together and get updated on the latest.
Links for WordCamp Philippines:
Obviously, it’s going to be a very busy September for me since there are also events such as Y4iT 2008 and the Software Freedom Day that are usually held on the same month plus the academic and work loads for this semester. I just hope that I’d be able to attend all of ‘em. Eeek.
So, see you in September then!
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Do you have a .Mac account and you want to try out MobileMe but you’re currently running a Linux box with all of the unsupported stuffs showing up on your browser?
I guess, it can still be done! How? Just get your box a package of Wine and install Firefox on top of it!
I was supposed to capture more screenshots but obviously I got stuck at the Mail Error part of my testing. I haven’t tried running Safari though.
As usual, suggestions and reviews are always welcome.
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At last, it’s already July – the month that’s usually filled with lots of class suspensions due to strong typhoons (and perhaps, the president’s SONA again?).
As always, it’s time to renew my birthday wishlist for this year too. Here it goes:
Yes, I’m in desperate need of a small/sleek/short ergonomic one before I develop RSIs on my hands. The size of a 1st gen iPod Shuffle (or something smaller/slimmer) would do.
It’s just in time since the rainy season’s here again – a perfect time for the UP Centennial Jackets‘ release as well.
It was last year when I got that powerful mobile phone so why not give its screen a new face, right?
Isn’t it obvious that I’m fond of their songs?
A geek’s toy a must!
…and for long-term purposes:
Because I need a laptop in which everything just works.
The Gibson steel guitar I have been using for more than 8 years (during Sunday masses, Christmas carolings, etc.) needs to retire already. Or maybe it only needs a makeover?
So again, hello July!
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Almost a week had passed since the extremely pleasing days filled with Java technologies from the Sun Tech Days in Manila that was held at the Makati Shangri-La. If I remember correctly, this one’s the 3rd Java event I have attended since Java in Manila (2 years ago) and the Sun Tech Days (4 years ago) that were both held in the same venue. Well, this year’s the 10th anniversary of Sun Tech Days and there was even a cake made for the celebration:
So what makes this Java event different from the previous ones?
In this Sun Tech Day event, I was attending it as a participant having VIP passes along with the UP JRDC student assistants (ada, ruzette & karen), UP ACM volunteers (marianlbt & rem), and the DCS faculty (jdlcaro, rom, mariocarreon & sir pros). Matt Thompson started the Demo Showcase that featured the technologies in live action.
Some of the technologies that were featured in the event were: Carol McDonald’s jMaki, Sang Shin’s Web 2.0 Frameworks/Toolkits & JavaPassion, Java Development on the Mac, Java FX Script, and OpenSolaris. The features of NetBeans 6.1 were so emphasized especially in the NetBeans DeepDive Session on the first day. Applications were being developed and deployed fast – almost without writing any single line of code.
So what’s the effect? I was craving to try all of the stuffs at the same time. However, as expected, there were overlapping sessions which gave me a hard time of choosing which to track to take. Luckily, there were LCDs for every track so you get to have a preview of all of the sessions (and if there’s a freebie giveaway going on).
Freebies?! I got myself these stuffs: STD bag, STD notebook, SDN moleskine, Java/JEDI pens, OpenSolaris CD, Netbeans CD, Nokia post-its, Nokia notebook, Pen+ruler keychain, and a STD bag tag/ID.
There were really lots of giveaways for the delegates; there’s even a Java leather jacket! So who won it? Check out Em’s blog post about the turn of events (and her Sun Tech Days experience as well).
Throughout the event, I’ve found out that Matt Thompson’s on Twitter too! Same as Carol McDonald and Aisling MacRunnels. Isn’t it amazing that they’re easier to reach now through just a single Twitter message? And oh, Sun Tech Days in Manila got the Best Audience Award! Woot!
All-in-all, it was a great Java week! Happy 10th Anniversary, Sun Tech Days!
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Remember Sun Tech Days 2004?
That was actually my first time to attend a Java conference. That event marked as my first experience in being a volunteer or staff member of the organizers. It was also the moment where I was able to meet the members of the DILNET Staff as well as some students from the DCS Batch 2001.
Now, 4 years had passed. Today, the Netbeans Deep Dive Session and University World Tour will start in about 3 hours at the Makati Shangri-La, the same venue just like last year’s if I remember it correctly.
By the way, the event’s FREE! See you there!
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