PhilNITS April 2009 Exam Results (JITSE Exam)

UPDATE: I passed PM exam, so that means I will have to take removal for the morning exam this coming October.

I took this exam but did not pass… But that’s okay. I can take it again next time, by October 2009 .

Congrats to Batang Yagit for passing the exam – Almendras, Chairell Winston Canania.

Here’s the link for the results -  PhilNITS 2009 April 26, FE Passers

That’s the exam results.  Congrats to all!

Write in C (Piano Musical)

A friend plurked this music video awhile ago. It is about how C programming language competes with other languages. If you are an IT person, you’ll get what the lyrics means. Take time and enjoy this music video – Wrote in C (Let it be Cover).

GeoCities is shutting down and for that I got 2 years free DreamHost hosting account and a domain name!

When I started with web designing/developing way back year 2000, I signed up for a GeoCities account to practice the new craft I am trying out. Now, I may say that I am a full-fledged web developer; already got some web developing jobs, yet still learning to keep me updated with the trends in creating a website and applications.

Well,  as the title reads – GeoCities is shutting down, and it will be later this year according to their website advisory. I already learned this news over Plurk few weeks ago. Some of my Plurk friends keeps sharing about the news and what more I was so excited to know about is if it is true that they got 2 years free DreamHost account with unlimited space and bandwidth and a year domain name. Yes! That is true, all that for free. It would cost you around $220 (more or less) to have that in a regular purchase.

Well, without further hesitation, I visited the blog post about that from DreamHost and also the entry of  Jehzlau. It was true then. So, I visited my GeoCities account and saw the homepage saying…

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Synch your Social Network status updates with Ping.fm

I personally manage accounts from different social networking sites. I have account with Plurk, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, etc. But I do not update them frequently except for my Facebook and Plurk, as most of my friends are online with those networks.

Recently, I realized that there might be a way to synchronize my status updates, and there is a way – Ping.fm. I did signed up and immediately linked my social network account to my Ping.fm account. I had my Twitter, Facebook, Plurk and LinkedIn accounts synchonized in updating status, as shown in the screenshot below.

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J2ME: Java Mobile Application Programming

Fascinated with those mobile applications you have in your mobile phone? The pre-installed utility tools and games, so called mobile application, are perhaps developed using Java’s Micro Edition – J2ME. J2ME is a subset of the Java platform, along side with J2SE and J2EE.

Since Java is platform independent, developing mobile applications with J2ME is portable as long as your device supports Java. So, check your phone specification if it supports Java (usually stating the version of your MIDP and CLDC). And if it does, you’re good to go or if you do not have it, we can use emulators.

Let us setup your IDE and try to develop a simple application. The IDE I use in developing Java Mobile applications is Netbeans (you can also use Eclipse, JCreator, etc). With Netbeans, you have a complete tools for J2ME mobile programming – editor, debugger and emulators. Just download and install Netbeans and be sure to have the Java Wireless Toolkit with it. This will provide you the capability to run and debug mobile application, assuring that the application you will soon deploy is compliant to your target devices.

So, if your Netbeans is ready to go, check out for some examples to work on at this site – Sun Mobile Device Technology – Code Samples and Apps. Please take note that it is good that you have Java programming experience to be able to understand the code or at least a programming experience.

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