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On This Day...

• 2008: Drupal makes me feel like Bruce Lee + Jackie Chan —
• 2008: Drupal: Storing data in the user profile — If you want to store data in the user profile, here's an example of a quick and dirty way to [...]
• 2008: Drupal: Adding lines to settings.php in an installation profile — Installation profiles can make it easier for you to test and reproduce your configuration. But what if you need to [...]
• 2006: Life on the A-list — Somewhere along the way, I managed to end up as the hottest blogger within IBM, with over a thousand hits. I [...]
• 2006: On the way home after a late night — I'm starving and my hands are a little bit weak. I've had nothing but hot chocolate since lunch, too pressed for [...]
• 2006: RIP, PDA — I discovered to my chagrin this morning that the Compaq iPaq no longer retains a charge, perhaps because its internal battery [...]
• 2006: Social Tech Brewing — Last night's Social Tech Brewing social was lots of fun. (Notice how lazy I getabout linking? ;) ) Phillip Smith arrived [...]
• 2006: It's alive! Reviving my iPaq — I've decided to experiment with carrying an electronic device around again. Several people have reported seeing Moleskines coexist with PDAs, so I [...]
• 2006: Tagging blog posts — At some point I really should write my own tag indexing thing. =) That way, it'll be easy to find out, [...]
• 2006: Blackberry goodness — Sandy read my post on networking and saw my note about Blackberry, that addictive little e-mail-anywhere device. I keep itching [...]
• 2005: On teaching programming — why do I have to write all this syntactic sugar to just do the canonical "Hello, world"? I firmly believe [...]
• 2005: Productive day! — I had so much fun writing today. 500 words for my m-ph entry, 1000 for the Linux Journal article on taming [...]
• 2005: xtla and Gnus — There is a feature in xtla.el to send/review patches via gnus. To set it up, you need the following lines for [...]
• 2005: Introducing the Hipster PDA — by Sacha Chua (Sneak preview of m-ph entry for tomorrow) "I've found the perfect PDA," I gushed. My friends perked up. Knowing how [...]
• 2004: Imagine Cup — Fanny Sy wrote: I'm so proud to announce that our team representative for the Imagine Cup competition has won the Imagine Cup [...]
• 2004: Much productive hacking last night — - Dusted off CoursesSubmission and started hacking on it again: minor template tweaks (tables instead of lists, for example) and some [...]
• 2003: [menu-bar] and mouse bindings — The mouse binding is throwing my memq all off!
• 2003: proper-listp — (defun proper-listp (l) (or (null l) (and (consp l) (proper-listp (cdr l)))))
• 2003: Student-centered learning — Brilliant idea! I can make a lot of things learn-by-example, and have them work in pairs almost all the time. For example, [...]
• 2003: TFI — Dr. Augustin Martin Rodriguez, Gus - program director. Supposed to orient us all on how to be good Ateneo teachers. Useful because [...]
• 2003: TFI — Introductions roland, math jenny, math andre, DISCS stan, DISCS rico, college 85, pulseasia, strategy and marketing crista, german malou, ecce rex briones, math ramir, math jun, history, institute of philippine [...]

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