your friendly neighborhood web developer

Have you checked Google Earth lately? Well, I still haven’t but I have seen the new Google Maps a month or two ago…and I am quite happy with what I saw.

The old version of this satellite imagery of earth took me to disappointment why? I cannot see out house! Darn it. Back then the place where our house was (the whole town actually) is blurred and dark. And it is very frustrating to see this after spending some time searching your way through Google Earth to find the spot (I don’t know the exact coordinates)

After a long time I have came across Google Maps to find out that I can now see our house! Yey! (14.832544, 120.735009) It’s a bit blurred but its better than cannot be found at all.

But then there’s more… With GeoEye-1 taking its first pictures of the earth for Google and the US government, we can expect better resolutions soon. Better to the point that we can almost read a newspaper headline from the picture taken by the satellite. Technology man!

Well… this is your friendly neighborhood web developer and… I can now see our house with Google!!!

Our house viewed from above

Zend Framework

They say it is it is the most robust framework for PHP out there. They brag about its simplicity, power, and integration with the existing web technologies out there

What I like is its promise of ease of use (like most programmers I want no pain I the ass added with the crazy business logics). What I look for forward is the markets move to lean toward this promising technology.

And I will be trying it, a move for improvement. And I will be using this framework in my next project (read: freelance) Why Zend? Why not? I have tried some framework out there but then Zend Framework kinda got me the first try… but I still need some familiarity with this new baby. And I am hoping that I will see what others think and brag about it.

This is your friendly neighbourhood web developer and I will be trying the Zend Framework.

Fujitsu Ten Solution Philippines is a Japanese company based in Ortigas Center, Pasig. They design develop different automotive audio and safety products for Fujitsu Ten’s brand “Eclipse”. It is a fun company to be in (as far as my department is concerned)

Well, here its is from the company itself:

Fujitsu Ten Solutions Philippines, Inc. (FTSP) develops software and hardware for state-of-the-art technology in Car Audio-Visual Communication Equipment, Car Multimedia, Car Electronics and Simulation Devices. It also carries out research and design of prototype units, electrical circuits, mechanical parts and assemblies, printed circuit boards for car audio-visual equipments, car accesories and car electronic parts. FTSPI, through its Information Systems Division, is also engaged in business application development for the Fujitsu Ten Group of Companies.

As our company geared towards continual improvement, FTSP employees maintain a cohesive working environment. Skills are proactively managed to sustain opportunities for change and development. Professional and Recreational activities are provided to maintain a balanced physical, social, mental and spiritual life for each team member, which in turn paves the way to realization of the dream.

Added info:

Fujistu Ten Solutions Philippines have all year round hiring. So fresh graduate or experienced (just off their jobs) can apply anytime. You can send your resume to recruit@ftsp.ten.fujitsu.com.

No, this is not the website of Fujitsu Ten Solution Philippines Inc. or FTSP or FTSPI not even from an affiliate. This is a personal website/blog of an employee of the said company. You are here because I optimized this site so that people, especially those who want to be employees of Fujitsu Ten Solutions Philippines, will give me some traffic. I have this idea after finding out that FTSP have no website of its own and most web search hits go to some stupid job search engines. Let’s see if this will hit the first page of Google’s result or even make it to the top spot.

Well… if you are working for another IT company… get me! Hahaha! I am a systems engineer/web developer. Double my current salary combined with easy work and I will be moving on into your place

There you go, this is your friendly neighbourhood web developer and this is my post about talking about Fujitsu Ten Solutions Philippines Inc. (FTSP)

It is weekends once again, and as the cycle goes… I am here home taking break from work and the metro smog.

Well, going home during Fridays have its tolls (read: weekend night outs), but the rest that I get from it is far more rewarding. I also get to use the internet at home for free, and the best part is it is UNRESTRICTED! Yeah, I usually settle down in front of the laptop when I get home.

Next is the breather from pollution. It is quite commercialized here in the province already but not as polluted as Manila. I also observed that it is much cooler here. I also get to see and enjoy the scene of big green fields that I think doesn’t exist in the metro anymore.

One of the best parts is… eating real food!!! Yeah! My diet is only applicable during weekdays, but not during weekends, not at home!

And my bed!!! Oooohh miss my bed, it’s small and soft, but I sleep very soundly when I am sleeping on it.

And of course, I go home to spend time with my family… as the saying goes “There’s no place like home”

Optical illusion, or visual illusion, is a phenomenon where in the brain makes a different interpretation from what the see (or should see). Here are some examples of this kind of illusion

count the black dots illusion

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I have here some interesting illusion pictures… unlike David “fake” Blaine, I am amazed by pictures like this:

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Literally, this blog almost got to a point where it has to have to restart again.

Why? … it is  because of this silly person name “ME”. Yeah, that freak tried tweaking things up… ending in losing all posts and even his login, darns it.

Good thing a friend of mine have saved my theme… and I, on the other hand, managed to restore the posts. Whew! Thank heavens I won’t have to reboot “warmreboot”!

Since I am a web developer I can share with you some tips and techniques that I helped me, or that I have discovered.

Here are some tips for new web developers out there:

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From Wikipedia

Angels & Demons is a bestselling mystery novel by Dan Brown. Published in 2000, it introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the principal character of Brown’s subsequent, better-known novel The Da Vinci Code.

An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion or flipscript, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation. 

This book is my inspiration for making ambigrams, like any other person who have read it. But my ambirams are still far from perfection when you compare it to John Langdon’s (the one who did the ambigrams in Dan Brown’s book)

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Have you visited the yahoo homepage lately? I just visited it a couple of minutes ago and found out some interesting things.

Yahoo is now offering Firefox 3 download. Crap! so the Firefox-Google partnership is really over?  I thought Google is still funding Mozilla!

So what’s next? Yahoo will be the default homepage/serach of firefox? Will the download of firefox now include Yahoo toolbar instead of Google’s?