Year 2006. A massive change in my life occurred in the said year. Millions of brain cells was born inside my gray matter. A rapid growth of something that I really don’t know what’s the exact term of it, happened. Gigantic labyrinths was solved, and blogious neothic crade that has been provoked in the midst of profane vanity, clushed in several pieces that could not be brought back again, from its unilious beginning. [kasabot?, hehe…]

I graduated from college in the year 2006
I created my first Art Portfolio, submitted my first resume, and applied for a Graphic Artist position in a certain company, and rejected by the said company in the year 2006
I’ve passed the TESDA Professional Certification Exam and became a CEM 1 (Certified Electronic Mechanic 1)
I registered, and submitted applications online in Jobstreet in the year 2006
I was invited by more than 10, but less than 20 companies for a job interview in the year 2006
I got my first job as a Web Administrator in the year 2006
I first boarded an airplane alone to Manila in the year 2006 [tama ba english ko? or dapat rode? hehe]
I gained weight and height in the year 2006
I have had an increase of salary twice for 7 months, and became a regular employee in the year 2006 [tama ba yung have had? or had have? hay.. below mediocre kasi grammar ko ]
I earned 174,000.00 Pesos and spent 164,000.00 Pesos for 7 months in the year 2006
I bought my first cellphone using my own hard earned money in the year 2006
I took 1000+ pictures with my cellphone camera in the year 2006
I nominated google to be a verb, and petitioned it to be added in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as a synonym of the word search in the year 2006
I first solved a Rubix cube, by breaking it apart, and putting it up all together in the year 2006
I discovered hundreds of peculiar biography of achievers, hackers and nerds in the year 2006
I successfully configured my first apache server and installed my first phpbb on LAN in the year 2006
I first downloaded and installed IE7, FF2, and WMP11 Beta in the year 2006
I found out that the new era evolutionists and creationists used YouTube as a debating medium in the year 2006
I learned hundreds of new songs that I don’t know how to sing in the year 2006
I modified hundreds of PHP scripts in the year 2006
I registered my profile in LinkedIn in the year 2006
I used AJAX in my web applications in the year 2006
I understood the real meaning of a database, and the use of it in the year 2006
I became a member of the International High I.Q. Society in the year 2006
I joined the league of the DOST scholar-graduates, and proudly a became member of the DOST Alumni Group of the Philippines in the year 2006 [naks naman!]
I became a member of the PHP Users’ Group of the Philippines in the year 2006 [murag true no? suon2x lang kay Nitrosaint the Great]
I first created a company intranet [dynamic;database driven] in the year 2006
I registered my first Flickr, and Blogger account in the year 2006
I learned many technologies from Adobe Labs in the year 2006
I ranked 157th in the Isulong Seoph Contest in the year 2006 [proud to be, kahit malayo :)]
I learned what is the importance of SEO and its benefits in the year 2006
I used adsense by google, and earned $1.00 from it in the year 2006 [wahehehe..]
I bought my first expensive shoes [worth 4.5k] in the year 2006
I won an online friendster contest, and made my first ever overlayed layout in friendster in the year 2006
I met more than 100 new trustworthy friends, in the year 2006
I made more than 10 very stupid mistakes in the year 2006
I wore short pants for the first time in the year 2006
I went to the beach, for the first time, with my college friends, in the year 2006
I learned to love, and felt the priceless feeling of being loved, in the year 2006
I visited more than 100 new places in the year 2006
I ranked 99 in the Pinoy Top Blogs, in the year 2006
I won 1st place and became a hall of famer in the Pinoy Blog of the Week sponsored by the Composed Gentlemen [kala mo kung ano no? hehehe… ]
I learned Flash actionscript 2.0 in the year 2006
I learned PHP, HTML, RoR, and Coldfusion web programming languages in the year 2006
I created my first RSS for my site and blog in the year 2006
I registered my second domain, www.dostscholars.com, in the year 2006
I created my first MySQL database in the year 2006
I bought my own 100mb webspace in the year 2006
I mastered Adobe Photoshop in the year 2006 [mastered the mediocre Level, hehe]
I learned Swift 3D, and made my first 3D Logos, and one of it was officially approved and used by a certain company here in the Philippines
I first learned Corel in the year 2006, and made my very first vector drawing using CorelDRAW
My photo first appeared in google image results in the year 2006
My name appeared in hundreds of blogs, RSS feeds, and websites in the year 2006
My name became popular in google search results, and yahoo answers, in the year 2006
My most beloved uncle, whose like my father, faced his final promotion, and entered heaven, in the year 2006.

…and lastly, I forgot other suppose-to-be-unforgettable experiences and achievements in the year 2006. Hay.. 2006 kay saya! *tears of joy starts to fall from my eyes*

Jehzeel’s Clone: Hey Jehz, don’t cry… Smile, and, ahmm.. and… eat some banana hehe…

From the time I visited Davao del Sur (One of the Provinces of Davao City) to see my uncle’s wake I am 48 hours awake. I went to NAIA (Terminal 2 - Centennial) at exactly 11:00 PM, December 21, 2006 where I stayed and waited for my flight to Davao. I just strolled around the airport, took some unusual pictures while waiting for the check-in counter to open at 2:30 AM, 22nd of December, 2006. After a few hours of waiting, the check-in counter opens and began to accept passengers who were tirelessly waiting for the said booth to open.
I went on board PAL Flight PR816 at 4:00AM, and the plane took off at 5:00AM. I arrived in Davao City at 6:45AM. 8:15AM at the Davao City Bus Terminal, I travelled for 1 hour and 30 minutes, the finally set my foot on Digos City, where I transferred to a bus, heading to Sta. Maria Davao del Sur. I arrived in my hometown at 11:30AM. I took my lunch, and went to the sala with my cousins to talk about something that is not quite interesting to you, but very much interesting to us. Hehe… I was awake througout the day, til dawn, and went asleep at 6:00AM, December 23, 2006. Whew!

Then, before going home (26th of December 2006). I played Scwable with my cousins (A new version of Scrabble, under beta testing, and we are the beta testers, nyahaha). From 6:00PM of December 25 to 4:30 AM of the day after. At 4:30AM, I went to my room, and began packing up my clothes, and other to-bring things to Manila. I went to the Sta. Maria terminal at 5:00AM, then took the first bus trip to Digos City. Then, took another bus at Digos, and finally, arrived on Davao City at 8:30AM. I went to our boarding house, in the place called Obrero (Davao City) and took a 5 minute nap, visited to USeP (University of Southeastern Philippines - my college alma matter) to take some pictures, had a breakfast at McDonald’s Bajada, withdrawed some amount from BDO ATM Machine, Land Co. Tower, went shopping at Aldevinco (the premier shopping place of “pasalubong” in Davao City), took my lunch at Victoria Plaza with some of my college friends, then went to the airport at 1:30 PM to check-in, waited for my flight to Manila (3:35PM, Flight PR816), and took the flight after waiting (of course). I arrived at 5:05PM (GMT+8) on NAIA Terminal 2 - Centennial. Went to my boarding house (sa may herrera street, sta. cruz, manila) to leave my things then to SM San Lazaro with Elve, had a dinner with her at Kenny Roger’s, watched MP5 (Mano Po 5 - Last Full Show). Tapos (pagod na ako mag english, whew) Pumunta sa Sykes, Gil Puyat, Makati, para ihatid si sweetypie ko. Then went home again (the said boarding house) at 2:00 AM in the morning and fell asleep!! Whatta Day! Ang Saya

Javascript got its name from the Javascript Indians of south-central Florida. This tribe dabbled unsuccessfully in e-commerce in the late 1700s, and was later bought out by Netscape for a handful of beads, trinkets, and PEZ dispensers.

Actually, Netscape developed Javascript in 1995 as a way for web server administrators to connect their servers to databases and search engines, and on the client side for validating forms and providing interactive content on the HTML level.

When the World Wide Web was first created in the early 1990s all web pages were static. When you viewed a web page you saw exactly what the page was set up to show you and there was no way for you to interact with the page.

Being able to interact with a web page - have it do something in response to your actions - required the addition of some form of programming language to “instruct” the page how it should respond to your actions. At the time there were two browsers that were reasonably popular - Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer.

Another programming language called Java (which required a separate plugin in order to run) became very well known and so Netscape decided to try to cash in on this by renaming the language built into their browser to Javascript. Not to be left behind Internet Explorer was soon updated to support not one but two integrated languages. One was called vbscript and was based on the BASIC programming language and the other was called Jscript and was very similar to Javascript.

The importance of this scripting language was too great to leave its future development in the hands of the competing browser developers and so in 1996 Javascript was handed over to an international standards body called ECMA who then became responsible for the subsequent development of the language. As a result of this the language was officially renamed ECMAScript or ECMA-262 but most people still refer to it as Javascript.

Which one is better? Here are some definitions and specifications about the two “Meta” Languages.

SGML - Short for Standard Generalized Markup Language, a system for organizing and tagging elements of a document. SGML was developed and standardized by the International Organization for Standards (ISO) in 1986. SGML itself does not specify any particular formatting; rather, it specifies the rules for tagging elements. These tags can then be interpreted to format elements in different ways. SGML is used widely to manage large documents that are subject to frequent revisions and need to be printed in different formats. Because it is a large and complex system, it is not yet widely used on personal computers. However, the growth of Internet, and especially the World Wide Web, is creating renewed interest in SGML because the World Wide Web uses HTML, which is one way of defining and interpreting tags according to SGML rules.

XML - The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language that supports a wide variety of applications. XML languages or ‘dialects’ are easy to design and to process. XML is also designed to be reasonably human-legible, and to this end, terseness was not considered essential in its structure. XML is a simplified subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different information systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet. Formally defined languages based on XML (such as RSS, MathML, XHTML, Scalable Vector Graphics, MusicXML and thousands of other examples) allow diverse software reliably to understand information formatted and passed in these languages.

That’s all for today… Thanks!

Just an information, to those who don’t know what are the 3 first frameworks of RoR (Ruby on Rails). There are hundreds or RoR frameworks from the time RoR was created by David Heinemeier Hansson.

Here are the first 3 RoR Frameworks:

Active Record
Connects business objects and database tables to create a persistable domain model where logic and data is presented in one wrapping.
Action Pack
Routes incoming requests through controllers with one method per action and lets view rendering happen using Ruby templates.
Action Mailer
Consolidates code for sending out forgotten passwords and invoices for billing in easy-to-test email service layers on top of smtp or sendmail.

That’s all for today. Thanks

What Is the Flex-Ajax Bridge?

The Flex-Ajax Bridge (FABridge) is a small, unobtrusive library of code that you can insert into an Adobe® Flex™ application, a Flex component, or even an empty SWF file to expose it to scripting in the browser. It is being released to the community under an open source license.

Where Should I Use the Flex-Ajax Bridge?

You may find the FABridge library useful if you:
Want to use a rich Flex component in an Ajax application but don’t want to write a lot of Flex code. If you wrap the component in a bridge-enabled stub application, you can script it entirely from JavaScript – including using eval()’d JavaScript generated remotely by the server.
Only have one or two people on your team who know Flex. While I would strongly encourage everyone to grab a copy of Flex and try it out (you’ll love it, I promise!), the FABridge library allows everyone on your team to use the work produced by one or two Flex specialists.
Are building an integrated RIA with both Flex and Ajax portions. While you could build the integration yourself using ExternalInterface, you might find it faster to start with FABridge as a head start.

What Do I Need to Use It?

To use the FABridge library and samples, you must have the following:
» Flex Builder™ 2 or Flex 2 SDK
» Flash Player 9
» Internet Explorer or Firefox, with JavaScript enabled
» Any HTTP server to run the samples

Visit Adobe Labs for more info about Flex-Ajax Bridge Technology