E-Learning Centre’s Web Development Training using Joomla for IT Professionals

Last week from June 21-24, 2011, I conducted another batch of Web Development Training using Joomla! with E-Leaning Centre, Inc. Ms. Yolynne Medina, OIC of the Centre, invited me to conduct the training, to educate the local IT professionals with this open source CMS; around 11 people participated the training program.

Topics discussed where HTML/CSS Basics, PHP/MySQL Recap, and of course and in-depth discussion and hands-on with Joomla! CMS like backend management, customizing Joomla! templates and even creating templates from scratch. We also explored on how to add social networking elements like Facebook plugins, Twitter buttons, YouTube videos, etc.

I’m glad that I took this opportunity to share and educate about this open source technology. I hope the participants learned something new during the course. Thanks again to E-Learning Centre for inviting me to do this training. It was fun!

If you want to contact E-Learning Centre for more IT Trainings, please call at 992-7269 or send an SMS @ 0916-1524-811(TM) and look for Ms. Yolynne Medina. Their office is located at 3F ZGU-II Bldg. Gov. Alvarez St.,
Zamboanga City, Philippines 7000.

Interactive Web Development Training (with NCC and LGUs) in Davao City

I was again invited by National Computer Center (NCC) to do the same Web Development training I handled last August in Cebu City.  It was my pleasure doing the training again and around thirty (30) participants attended the training from different Mindanao local government units  (LGUs).

The training was held at PhilNITS Davao, 5th Floor,  DTI-RXI Office, Mintrade Building, Monteverde-Sales Streets, Davao City last September 27-30, 2010. Read more…

Web Development Training with National Computer Center in Cebu City

I was referred to National Computer Center (NCC-FOO’s ICT Education and Training Unit) by a good friend to do a web development training in Cebu using Joomla, an open-source content management system (CMS). So when NCC called me for verification, I immediately asked the schedule and said yes when I learned it was feasible with my schedule. I was excited and at times nervous because this is my first time to handle a training with a number of participants from different Local Government Units (LGUs) from Visayas and Mindanao.

The training was dubbed as Going Interactive: Taking Web Development to the Next Level, aimed to train LGU personnel (most likely IT personnel) to do web development for their LGU’s website and on how to manage and update it frequently. Read more…

Cebu IT Industry

Been here in Cebu for more than a month now. It was really a short notice job offer I got yet I  accepted it and moved on from the freelance consultancy job I do (which are mostly work- at- home offshore projects) to the corporate IT industry. So now, here I am enjoying my job as a PHP Developer in a BPO firm.

Image from Wikipedia – The Asiatown IT Park Read more…

Object-Oriented Programming with PHP

The recent PHP versions now supports object-oriented programming or OOP, which usually are in class form. Since PHP OOP are in class form,  they have accessors, mutators, data members, etc. — much like the usual OOP programming languages. Last week, we started a short crash course with Web Development with PHP/MYSQL. So, I introduced a bit of OOP since most of the participants have the idea already about OOP ( in Java, C++).

Here’s a snippet I used as a demo during our short session:

<?php
class demo {
     var $name;
     function setName($nombre)
     {
          $this->name = $nombre;
     }
     function getName()
     {
          return $this->name;
     }
}
$naming = new demo();
$naming->setName("Jerome Locson");
echo $naming->getName();
?>

I guess if you have a  background in programming, you know how the code works. And if not, just drop me comment and I am willing to answer it.