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On This Day...

• 2011: Transcript: Blogging (Part 12): Two homes — Hat-tip to Holly Tse for organizing this interview! At the end of the blog series, I’ll put them all together [...]
• 2010: Sketchnotes: Why I do them, how I do them, and how you can get started — Why do I sketch my notes? A few years ago, I sketched a presentation just for fun, to see if I [...]
• 2009: Automating tedious wiki editing tasks with Emacs and w3m — I needed to update many of the links in our wiki because a team member left, so I had to [...]
• 2009: How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 4: Taking the next steps — The only reason to give a presentation is to help people act or think differently. I’ve tried almost everything that [...]
• 2005: “What should I do with my life?” — What Should I Do With My Life? The real meaning of success — and how to find it Those who are [...]
• 2005: Cold! — My ears hurt earlier. I guess Canadians have just adapted to the weather by evolving thicker ears. Mine were almost icy! [...]
• 2005: Teaching reflections — Yesterday’s class session went well. FINALLY! I felt like I was _really_ doing something. What made the difference? Attendance. The professor emphasized [...]
• 2005: Flash fiction: “Nine Lives to One” — In response to flashxer prompt: THE OLD MAN WAS SENILE, BEDRIDDEN, AND LYING IN HIS OWN WASTE. HE WAS WHEEZING HARD WHEN [...]
• 2004: DLSU Braille SMS project — Someone tell me why I have to go all the way to an Indian newspaper to find out about a cool [...]
• 2004: Workaround for tla signed archive problems — > create a file called ~/.arch-paramas/signing/sacha@free.net.ph—main.check and put, as the only line, ‘echo -n’ in it. echo -n produces no output and returns 0 [...]
• 2004: Project Roselle — Hello, everyone! I was going to write a formal news-y write-up, but I’ll leave that for the serious bloggers. Here’s the long [...]
• 2004: Ateneo CS department is so cool — I can’t get over the fact that not only does our department chair have a blog (Headless Chicken (Didith Rodrigo)), [...]
• 2004: Lifehacks: Doing my mail on the train — If I leave work right after the clock chimes at 5:30, I almost always manage to get a seat on the [...]
• 2004: Aha! — Finally integrated my ever-so-funky JUnit-tested business logic layer with JSPs and actions through Struts. This calls for a celebration! Open the bag [...]
• 2004: Handling login authentication in Struts — Best practice: Extend RequestProcessor and perform authentication in methods such as processActionPerform() or processRoles(). - http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2004/jw-0913-struts-p2.html
• 2003: On puzzles and conversation — Had a pretty amazing weekend. Invited Jerome and Dominique over. Spent some 16 hours conversing over a puzzle. Great fun. Attended the [...]
• 2003: On teachers’ jobs — >>> learn C by him/herself, after all it is the student's responsibility. >>> Implementing the solution is up to the student, [...]
• 2003: Eric’s site — Eric Vidal’s real website Don’t believe his Google footprint. ;)
• 2003: Nice quote — computer science education — Bong Munoz said: Before I step off my soapbox I’m pretty confident that we’ll get better results in the future. The [...]
• 2003: Calendar feature? — Colin Marquardt said: I noticed that calendar feature on your wiki journal. Is it one of the things mentioned in http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/Calendar_Extension or something different? E-Mail [...]