Satisfied with my Globe Tattoo Broadband Stick

I bought my Globe Tattoo a week ago (January 28). It cost me Php 1,245.00. I feel that it was a Sulit buy because it was bundled with 125 hours surfing time and 2,000 texts to Globe/TM for 30 days. Not bad.

The signal in my room isn't that good though. I have to go outside to get a better signal. But I'm still quite happy and satisfied with it. :)

Regular rate is 5 pesos for 15mins or 20 pesos per hour. Unlimited surfing per day 
will cost 50 pesos.

Happy with my students' mobile projects

I'm really quite impressed with the projects presented by some of my students. It's really great. I am glad that despite the very short time that we were able to discuss about midlets, they were able to come up with original and entertaining mobile applications.

Hopefully, they will not forget what they have learned about J2ME and be able to make use of the skills that they have acquired and later on make money out of it.

However, there are still those that disappointed me a lot. There were students who presented mobile applications that they have downloaded from the Web. What irritates me most is that they don't even understand the code! Argh! Good thing that (so far), those who made original projects outnumbered those who just downloaded source codes.

SFD 09 GenSan

We will be celebrating SFD '09 on September 19, 2009 (Saturday) at MSU High School, Laurel St., General Santos City.

Registration fee will be 40 (forty) pesos that will include snacks in the morning, certificate of participation, souvenirs and CDs for the first 200 registrants.

See you there!

Please visit the official SFD GenSan website for more details.

How to Install Wordpress (Locally) on PC with XP

This is a modified version of GeeksAreSexy's guide in installing Wordpress.

For this post, I would assume that you have the following on your box:

• Apache
• PHP
• MySQL

1. Create a database named wordpress in MySQL.

2. Download Wordpress and unzip it in C:\Program Files\Apache2.2\htdocs

3. Open wp-config-sample.php using your favorite text editor (e.g. Notepad) and replace it with the following values:

// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'root'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password'); // Your MySQL password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

4. Open your web browser and navigate to: http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

5. You should now see the welcome note of Wordpress. Enter the necessary information. Enjoy!