Bonus Post

The FIRST Seminar-ish: 

The ASES Summit Manila 2014 aims to promote student entrepreneurship, business innovation and global business networks amongst top international college students. The theme for this year’s international summit is: “social entrepreneurship in the world of tech startups.”

The event was kind of a Oral Defense. There were several groups (of different nationalities) who proposed business solutions with the help of technology to solve some of our problems here in the Philippines. Almost all of them said that there's a gap between our resources and technologies and they want to fill those "gaps" to fully utilize our resources. 

Bam Aquino (kind of, can't remember the exact words) said:

"If you're going to use the same solution to solve the same old problem, NOTHING will happen"

I like the proposal of the team One Up. They're going to make an application that will get Php 1.00 pledge from every donor and in return donate the money that they will collect to help children study. Even a small amount of donation can help and I guess if the donor wants to donate a larger amount, they can. 

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The SECOND Seminar: "It's a TechnoBusiness!"

The first speaker was Mr. Ronald Isip who works for a company called INDRA. He was showing a lot of flowcharts and stuff on his presentation (kind of hard to take in) but from what I gathered is that his company aims to make a large company turn world class through automation. He shared guides on how to properly manage a system and said that experience is a great factor in finding jobs in the future.

The second speaker was Mr. Julius Gorospe, the director of R&D in Samsung Philippines. He studied computer science then kind of shifted to management because he said that "Ang hirap naman pag nagproprogramming pa din kapag puti na ang buhok." Kind of struck me because it's true. Baka mapaaga ang retirement dahil sa stress sa programming. Sad. Lol.

What's funny though is that he uses an iPhone instead of a Samsung mobile. "Keep your friends close and your enemies CLOSER." Mwahahahaha.

He said that what was great about Samsung is that they can go with the flow - like produce gadgets that are "in"- in today's market. And that is why there are known for a lot of products - not just for smartphones.

*I was surprised to discover that SAMSUNG started out as a noodle corporation.*

Start of Mr. Gorospe's seminar

Q&A

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CVS

July 21, 2014

Using a computer for long periods of time may cause negative effects such as headaches, blurred vision, eye strain, dry eyes, irritated eyes, polyopia (multiple vision), and difficulty refocusing the eyes but NOT cancer. The negative effects are symptoms of Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS).

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I remember my mom telling me a technique to avert these bad effects, something about looking at trees outside or far objects for at least 20 seconds to relax the eyes. For people who want to prevent or lessen the symptoms, such as me (a heavy computer user), the rule my mom was talking about was the 20-20-20 RULE. 20 Minutes, 20 Feet, 20 seconds. What. What is it, you might ask. 

For all you heavy computer uses. 

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Prominent Companies Part 2

July 14, 2014

Yahoo! was very famous for it's product - YAHOO MESSENGER - before. I still remember the days when the first thing that I'll do after booting our computer or laptop was to open the messenger. It used to have the best chat service before Facebook Chat was introduced. 

Now, I just use Yahoo! for it's email service. R.I.P messenger.

Tried  to see if there were still people using the yahoo messenger.

*Just FYI. Why Yahoo! (with the exclamation point)???*

" At that time "Yahoo" was already trademarked by a company that produced barbecue sauce, knives and human propelled watercraft. For this reason Yang and Filo added the exclamation point to the end of Yahoo!"

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One reason why I am hating Apple right now is they tend to forget about the processor limit and capability of their past products when they release new iOS software. For example, my iPod Touch 4th Gen (even for other people). When it was on iOS 4, it performed smoothly. But when I updated it to the latest software available (iOS 6), it crashes A LOT. Before, I can use my iPod for games and social apps but now since it can't handle anything (even when I'm only using Safari), I only use it as an mp3 player. Back to its original purpose. It's like they do it on purpose so you'll have the urge to throw away your gadget and buy their new product.

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Prominent Companies Part 1

July 9, 2014

Microsoft is one of the largest and most valuable company that develops computer software and personal computers. It's operating system - WINDOWS - is still the most popular operating system being used today. It is widely-supported and user-friendly. 

I think that Windows is the best OS for gaming and for business because there are a lot of software and games that are compatible with it. Why? 

"When Bill Gates started to develop Windows he made the software information free to developers of software. Steve Jobs at Apple sold the OS software information. So, most software developers decided to make software just for Windows OS since it didn't cost anything. " - Terry Scott

Maybe Microsoft  wasn't trying to monopolize the computer industry, they just like to share. Maybe.

Google started off simply as a search engine. But since then, it has bought a lot of companies such as Blogger, YouTube, Android and has already developed a lot of os, apps and gadgets.  They're even developing a self-driving car now. Define AWESOME. 

 

Oh but wait, look at the list of what companies  Google purchased on December 2013:

• Schaft Inc, a humanoid robots company
• Industrial Perception, computer vision systems and robot arms for loading and unloading trucks
• Redwood Robotics, a robotic arms company
• Meka Robotics, a humanoid robotics company
• Holomni, a robotic wheels company
• Bot & Dolly,  a robotic camera company
• Autofuss, an ad and design company
• Boston Dynamics, a military and industrial  robot company

Google trying to create an army of robots to take over the world? Nah. I don't think so. 

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System Analyst

July 2, 2014

As we have discussed, it professionals tackle wide range of jobs. For Information Systems graduates, they would most likely become system analysts.

What does a System Analyst do??

A systems analyst is an IT professional who specializes in analyzing, designing and implementing information systems solutions to help an organization operate more efficiently and effectively.

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I think that system analysts should be critical thinkers so that they would come up with great solutions to problems that their companies would encounter. Honestly, I want to become an analyst than to become a coder because some analysts have their partners (coders) to create the codes to finish the work faster. If that's the case, I can get away with the code making part. But it is important for a system analyst  to be great programmer also so no getting away with codes!

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Software

June 30, 2014

We discussed the last steps in making a program - Compile, Test and Debug the program. 

Compile is the time we put our source codes in our chosen IDE.

Test is when we run our codes to see if they work. In Netbeans, I always try to make sure to test as many variables that I can, just to make sure that my codes really work. Better be safe than sorry!

Debugging  is to find and fix errors and problems in the codes. It is a hard task because as said in class, we'll never get away from bugs. I think it's true. I noticed that many apps released for our smartphones are provided with "updates" by their creators. These updates are done usually to fix bugs/glitches that occur and to add features.

Look at below, "Bug fixes and improvements"

After learning the processes, I've concluded that work of a programmer is very exhausting!
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Oh and when using software, I try my best to find freewares instead of paid ones. Whenever I need a paid software/app, I try my best to search cracked versions online just like my MS Office 2013.

I salute programmers who make freewares. After all the stress and hard work they've gone through to create their programs (we all know it is not easy), they share them for free. WOW. So I guess, there are still things you can get for free. 

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