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Book Review of 'Accidental Billionaire' , Advice on How to Protect your Copyrights and Partnership when Starting a Web Project

I come to buy and finish the book, Accidental Billionaire by author Ben Mezrich while enroute to Toronto from Ottawa on Porter airlines flight. This is a book about the facebook founders, Mark Zucker
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2010-07-26 15:37:11
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How to transition from mainframe programmer to java or .net programmer?

This question is relevant to mid-life mainframe programmer who would like to get on the Web, enterprise technology bandwagon with all its opportunities. First, theory and practice must be obtained. Yo
Contributor: Renato Palabasan
Last Edited: 2010-04-28 10:11:53
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Book Review of ‘How to Eat Right and Live Longer’

I came across a book by Dr. Cass Ingram titled ‘How to Eat Right and Live Longer’, published by Knowledge House Publishers copyright 2005. It contains interesting nutritional information that to m
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2009-11-05 07:51:11
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Leveraging COBOL CICS' huge investments to be web enabled

Some people say COBOL is dead, it will be replaced by Web 2.0 mashup technologies like Java, C#, VB.net, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Jasper, Hibernate, Spring, Flash, Media Player, RSS, Ajax, Https, FTP a
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2010-07-28 08:03:02
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Open source in the Corporate World

Open source technology is at the mainstream corporate world now. It has arrived. Technology such as Hibernate, Jasper, iText, Ajax, php, mysql, perl have come of age. It is now common to see corporate
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2010-07-28 08:01:53
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BBC NEWS

US sees 54,000 jobs go in August.
The US economy shed another 54,000 jobs in August, the third month in a row that jobs have been lost, official figures show.

BP blowout preventer 'removed'.
BP replaces the blowout preventer that failed to stem the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well and says it has paid $8bn (£5.2bn) in damage costs.

Plans for solar 'close encounter'.
Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.

UPS plane crashes near Dubai road.
A cargo aircraft belonging to the US courier UPS crashes on a major highway in Dubai, setting some cars on fire.

Clinton warns on Mid-East talks.
The US secretary of state warns the current round of Mid-East peace talks may be "the last chance for a very long time".

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Setting up webserver using XAMPP

XAMPP is composed of Apache web server and MySQL database.
You don't need to worry about anything else. As soon as you install xampp, start apache and mysql, you are ready to go.

Contributor: Robert Dabu
Last Edited: 2009-10-01 11:12:08
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BASIC PHP EXAMPLES

PHP is a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages.

PHP is the widely-used, free, and efficient alternative to competitors such as Microsoft's ASP.

PHP c
Contributor: Robert Dabu
Last Edited: 2009-10-01 10:52:01
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Cheat Sheets (Shortcut keys) for Web, Mainframe and Middleware Developers
@Current as of April 15, 2010 compiled from various sources and from experience of Rene Palabasan

Shortcut keys in Eclipse and or WSAD IDE
Ctrl+Space -> Content Assist aka tag/function insight
Ctrl+K -> Find Next
Ctrl+Shft+K -> Find Previous
Ctrl+J -> Incremental Find
Ctrl+Shft+W -> brings up Switch to Editor Window
Ctrl+Shft+R -> brings up the Open Resource Window
Ctrl+Shft+G -> ...
Contributor: Renato Palabasan
Last Edited: 2010-04-15 06:05:44
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COBOL for the Java and .Net Programmers
It is said that it is easier to convert a COBOL programmer to Java or .Net than for the middleware programmer to COBOL technologies. Why, first the reluctance of the former to learn a legacy technology and the second it is much structurally rigid as fas as following rules in coding and logic constructs.

But just like the article on learning Java for the COBOL programmers, learning this language is not hard if given enough perseverance and mentoring. First, you have to get hold of...
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2009-11-04 18:07:21
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JAVA for the COBOL Programmers
In reality, as the usual 20/80 rule also applies to Java, you only need to know the first 20% of the Java stuff for you to proceed on having a hands-on experience writing Java for maintenance purposes or for simple application. This is what they call in the Java community as POJO or ‘Plain Old Java Object’. The rest of the 80% is meant for the specifics of the trade and is only used by the more robust Java framework architecture.

First, let us introduce the concept of object-...
Contributor: Rene Palabasan
Last Edited: 2010-08-11 15:22:51
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IFRS- THE NEW ACCOUNTING “BUZZWORD”
Have you heard about IFRS? IFRS stands for International Financial Reporting Standards. IFRS will be implemented in Canada and will replace Canadian GAAP, first for Publicly Accountable Enterprises (PAE’s) beginning in fiscal years on or after January 1, 2011. A publicly accountable enterprise is an entity, other than a not-for-profit organization, or a government or other entity in the public sector that:
i. has issued, or is in the process of issuing, debt or equity instruments that ...
Contributor: Dean de
Last Edited: 2009-10-20 18:56:01
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