Team Cerveo of Dak Solutions recently had their Christmas party at Buffet Palace, Victoria Plaza last December 15 with a simple dinner buffet that consummated into a billiard and singing get together at bluepost until past midnight.
Here are some pics of the event:
At Buffet Palace
Bluepost — Left to right: Marco , Larry , Sheng, Arthur, Airon, Bernard, Padz, Shawn and Bing
Airon and Marco
Im skipping my November personal project to give way to some important work related tasks. I’ll be back with it as soon as I’ll have some break this Christmas vacation.
I’m just waiting for my internet connection to be setup on the new house that me and my wife just rented. We already transferred some stuff but we still couldn’t set in until the internet connection will be up.
It is a cool house with four bedrooms, two on the second floor, a library, a maid’s quarter, a lawn where I can do some lawn mowing, a fountain place with a small fishpond around it and three toilet and bath. The owners, Tita Andrea, left with us their sala set, kitchen table and other house stuff that will help us get started easily when moving in.
Another small script I made out of the blues.
You can query 3 search engines with different search weights on one click and view the top 40 results.
I came to know more of Google’s, Yahoo’s and MSN’s Search API when doing this script. Google’s API sucks the most and Yahoo’s the best in terms of performance, flexibility and ease of use. MSN came in second to Yahoo.
Though Googles API is somewhat comprehensive but it set limits that you wanna think that they don’t really intend developers to use it. 10 results per query and max of 1000 queries a day arghhh ….. Another thing is that 20% of the time the connection fails and it seems google doesn’t plan to support this SOAP API thing in the long run. They have this new Ajax Search API that they are promoting parallel to the SOAP API.
Anyways you may try Goyams here
Im about to launch Keyword Market - my October project. Its an online stock market game but instead of company stocks, keywords are being traded .
My aim with Keyword Market is to have a website that will have an Alexa Ranking of below 20,000 within 6 months from now ending April 19,2007 (I know alexa is crap and can easily be manipulated, but Im not aware of any website who does better in tracking rankings). This is not an SEO experiment since it does not aim to rank any keywords on search engine results. Main objective is TRAFFIC generation using alternative methods(viral thingy) aside from SEO.
This is also a revenue sharing site, you can add your own adsense code.
Starting last month and the next 6 months I will be launching one web based personal project per month.
For the month of September, the project is called Wiki Maps - a Google Map mashups wherein anybody can add markers for streets and locations on the map. Somewhat similar to Wikimapia except I divided cities on different sites, can add street polylines, has more powerful searching capabilities and more location details.
Three days ago, Yahoo upgraded my free mail account to its new web mail system which is in Beta mode. Here are the things that are cool with it:
Interface - interface is sleek. It got less page refresh and more tabular panes. The look is somewhat similar to an email client like Outlook or Thunderbird. Though I could sense too much javascript on it that it breaks Firefox from time to time - and actually I have not used it on IE yet.
Shortcuts - as we all know, keyboard shortcuts makes our life easier and faster. Yahoo mail beta has it … lots of it actually.
Calendar - much improved calendar with lots of added features. Better check for yourself
File Attachements - Better way to handle file attachments. You can attach big files and continue working. No more time for coffee breaks when attachments are still being uploaded.
Easier Navigation - Though this is relative among different users, finding things I needed become faster and easier. Except for the most important thing - the search box. There are two search boxes, one for the web and another for the email. At first, it confuses me which is which until I get used to it.
Overall its a nice improvement on interface. For sure, I will still miss the old Yahoo Mail look which has become my all time favorite email.
Many seems to be on a race to develop a cool nice app integrating GMaps to it. Some got brilliant ideas but doesnt technically know how to implement one and some are technically (programming wise) good but hasn’t had any idea on what to do about it.
In a few days Im going to join the fun and launch my own GMap Application. My idea is to build a map that any users can add landmarks and streets in a particular city. A map wiki of some sort, thats why I called it Wiki-Maps.
It’s currently on alpha stage and will be ready for public testing soon.
Will post update soon. Ciao!
