Making Mobile Web Apps Guided by "Mobile First Bootstrap": A Book Review

I was on a quest for front-end development framework that's built on top of jQuery so that it will be portable across various browsers and theoretically resolved the differences and individual quirks of various popular browsers, and the final item after clearing out the list is Bootstrap 3, all the more is that it's designed with mobile platform first so I can finally work with a better front-end tool than jQuery Mobile.

What's next once we have Bootstrap 3 on hand? Well, we need a guide, preferably a book to help us go through this new fancy power tool for front-end developers and luckily for us, with the generosity of Packt Publishing, we were again given the opportunity to review another new book, this time it's "Mobile First Bootstrap" by Alexandro Magno that was published before the close of 2013 so this is really hot off the press!

Nokia Lumia 820 and the Mobile Apps Paradox

In a previous blog, I promised to have a product review of Nokia Lumia 820, so this article is long overdue, but please allow me to justify procrastination, at least for this review. It turns out that there was already a review of Lumia 920 so what's the use of reading about Lumia 820? Well, this is more of account of working with the Lumia 820 developer device loaded with Windows Phone 8 and frankly, doing a review on a very short span of time may not do justice to the device in question.

Zend Framework 2 Application Development: A Book Review

I once tried using the Zend Framework 2 documentation as a guide to PHP5 development but the documentation given the number of framework components is also gargantuan, and having to look through the documentation can be intimidating if not cumbersome, especially for newcomers to PHP5 development.

I highly recommend this book to be a reference on ZF2 for newcomers and experts alike within reach on your desktop, literally and metaphorically

With due credit to Punit Shetty through Facebook, I was floored to have had the opportunity to review the book, or rather the eBook version of "Zend Framework 2 Application Development" by Christopher Valles that was released around the last quarter of 2013. At the outset, the book was intended for newcomers to PHP5 development using Zend Framework 2, arousing the curiosity whether this book would be suitable for newbies while at the same time hopefully valuable also to experienced developers.

Revisiting 2013 to Move Onward to 2014

If the year 2012 was the dormant period of EDGEKIT Computer Systems, the year 2013 proved to be a very productive and fruitful year for the company.

First, we have secured our commitment to the community by being the first and only professional support and service provider in the Philippines for OpenBSD and PostgreSQL, the foundation of our Weapon of Choice technology stack.

Second, we had a fruitful participation in the International Rice Research Institute organized hackathon, with which we gratefully had access to Microsoft Windows Azure and startup resources from Microsoft Philippines as well as having an opportunity to be one with the community of passionate hackers in the Philippines.

We couldn't have reached these milestones had it not been for our love ones, friends and assocites who keep inspiring us, namely the EDGEKIT founder's sons Joshua Mari Francis and Faith Lawrence, his better half, Angelique Therese, his sisters Josephine Marie and Mary Josette, his mother Josefina and aunts Emiliana and Dominga Harical in Ligao City, relatives in Southern Leyte, Dumaguete and Butuan City, the Mabanto family of Mandaue City, the Clerigo family of Canlaon City, the colleagues and former professors and students of the founder at Aquinas University of Legazpi. EDGEKIT Computer Systems is also grateful and thankful to Ariel Licas of arielicas.com, Tita Nel Vergara, Jorge Azurin, Jose Oscar Garcia, Joe Bert Lazarte, Marl Anthony Kallos, Ericson Jimenez, Julius Pastrana, Richard Gonzales, Christopher Coballes, Richard Bona, Jowie Oligario, Allan and Christine Asetre, Marlon Ifson, Jayson Reyes, Roberta Docil-Andaya, Celeste delos Santos, Jerome Fadriquela, Ed Dural, my Aquinas University design project team Arc Nazareno, Roderick Zuniga, Glenn Montiveros, Pedro Estrella, Christopher Cano, Jesus Corteza, Jomer Abino and the late Christopher Ballon.

Thank you very much to everyone who supported and visited us here at the EDGEKIT Computer Systems website, and see you again next year, 2014.

After Typhoon Yolanda: Life and Business Perspective

It's old news that the Philippines was ravaged by one of the most vicious typhoons in recent history. At this point, what's more important and valuable for us to realize is what we could have done better and how we could prepare for similar or worse situations in the future.

If you're aspiring to be into business or startup, there's something to learn from this aftermath as well.