About
What’s this all about?
A Pinoy web developer’s blog. His thoughts, opinions and experience. Not strictly web-related though. May vary from tech things to any random thought. But nothing emo here… I hope.
A bit personal
Welcome to my blog. I’m Rolan. My online friends call me Ditchx. I’m currently working as Web Developer for a US-based outsourcing company in the Philippines. I use the LAMP stack for web development. I’m a Geodetic Engineering graduate from the University of the Philippines (Diliman). Licensed, yes. But not practicing. I’m really interested in programming. Actually, I entered UP as a computer science student and was able to survive right before the thesis year. But then, few technicalities forced me to change my course. Never mind the details.
After I graduated, I was invited by my college buddy at the company he was working in. They were in need of PHP developers. Good thing I had enough time to familiarize myself with the language. I was able to pass the exam (I might post it someday) and started my career as a web developer in 2006.
A bit technical
I’ve been using PHP since early 2006. I could say that my knowledge on the language is average, but I’m trying to learn more and improve more. I’m quite familiar working with the following:
- CakePHP Framework (Gotta love this sweet thing)
- phpBB2 (super tweaked a forum-based website)
- Joomla!
- WordPress
I also had the chance to use javascript at work:
- jQuery , my choice of JS framework
- Mootools , a lightweight Javascript library
- Prototype , Javascript library
- Scriptaculous , a Javascript Effects library based on prototype.
I used some of them for Yahoo! and Google Maps mash-ups.
Hmmm…. I really need to put some sample works so we can see things in action.
