Visited Google Singapore Office

I was in Singapore last week for a couple of days for the BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011. And of course, we took the opportunity to visit one of the famous tech companies in the world, Google, who has an office in Singapore. Ms. Aileen Apolo-de Jesus, who was the Google Philippine Country Consultant is now working in Google Singapore office. We contacted her and asked if we can visit their office and have a short tour. And so we visited Google Singapore Office which is located at 8 Marina View, Asia Tower 1, #30-01 Singapore.

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BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 in Singapore

Thanks to BlackBerry through Mobile Monday Manila for the free conference pass for the recently concluded BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011. It was suppose to be held in Bangkok but due to the recent flooding it was transferred to Singapore at the Suntec International Convention Center. And with that, we were entitled for travel incentives for the change of venue.

It was a 2-day event, December 7-8, 2011, with awesome break-out sessions. I am an Android developer and was so interested to join the conference since I want to expand my skills with mobile application development. And since BlackBerry uses C++/Java for its native programming, so yeah… I think it will be easy for me since I am familiar with those programming languages. Read more…

YouTube for Schools!

Kudos to YouTube for this new project! I personally use YouTube for some tutorials on cooking and programming. Awesome! Read more about this new product at the official YouTube Blog.

Talk on Database Basics and MySQL at Mapua Institute of Technology

I went to Manila to attend the DevOpsDays Manila 2011 organized by DevCon Philippines last December 2, 2011. And since it was a weekend, I re-booked my flight until Sunday evening to attend a couple of events more, maximizing my stay in Manila.

One of the event was a talk on an IT Seminar. I saw a status update from the DevCon Philippines Facebook page, few days ago before flying to Manila, calling for volunteer speakers for the IT Seminars in Mapua Institute of Technology (Makati) which I group of students organized for their school requirements. I contacted them and committed to share, I guess it’s my little way on giving back to the community.

I was suppose to talk about Java/Android but the organizers said that they already attended a seminar about it, and so I was re-assigned to discuss about Database Basics and MySQL. It was a refresher talk to most of them… and I hope they learned something new.

Thanks DevCon Philippines for the referral and IT students from Mapua for giving me the opportunity to share. Until next time!

DevCon Philippines Summit: DevOpsDays Manila 2011

I attended the DevCon Cebu GeekUp last October 27, 2011 held at  Kul Kitchen (The Strip Branch). During the geekup, we brainstormed and shared ideas on how to improve the community in term of its goals and future activities. At one point, before ending the session, someone reminded us about the  raffle contest for the most anticipated event of the year by DevCon Philippines, it is the DevOpsDays Manila 2011. When I went back to the office after the geekup, I submitted my entry for the contest and was just trying my luck. It was actually the last day for submission. Days later, and guest what? I received a call from Ms. Jo Eduardo, one of the officers from DevCon Ph, informing me that I won the  round-trip airfare and hotel accommodation to attend the DevCon Philippines Summit – DevOpsDays Manila 2011! Hooray!

Anyway, going to the DevOpsDays Manila 2011… With three other lucky winners (which DevCon labelled us as Scholars) flew to Manila last December 2, 2011 to attend the Summit which was held at Makati Palace Hotel (which where we also stayed for a day).

I was so excited for this event as this is the first in South East Asia; satisfied and glad I took the opportunity to participate. The event basically aims to bring the development and operations in one venue and share ideas on how to collaborate.

It was a jam-packed event. Lots of developers and operations personnel from different companies attended, around 200 to be exact. Also participants from the academe (instructors and students) took the opportunity to explore and learn about DevOpsDays.

The event started with the Opening Remarks by Mr. Winston Damarillo, DeCon Philippines Founder and followed by the Keynote speech by Mr. Lee Thompson, one of the founders of DevOpsDays which he talked about concepts of DevOpsDays and Data Manufacturing Systems. You can read Lee’s latest blog post here. Read more…