After experiencing a number of production roll-outs, on both blade and rack mounted servers, I began to think about the advantages of one over the other. In general, blade servers sounded like a better approach, but it appears to be more of a marketing hype than reality.

It’s been 2 weeks since I installed Karmic Koala, the latest version of Ubuntu. After having to use Windows Vista and Mac Leopard for quite some time, here are some of my reviews and opinions on Karmic Koala in terms of system installation, speed performance, interface usability, software application and product reliability/security.

The property innerHTML are read-only for the following html objects: COL, COLGROUP, FRAMESET, HEAD, HTML, STYLE, TABLE, TBODY, TFOOT, THEAD, TITLE, TR and trying to update the value of their innerHTML property will give you ‘unknown runtime error’ in IE browser. Though creating child elements by DOM method can resolve this…

Two days ago my Macbook failed to startup and I later realized that the hard disk had seized to function. So, to save time for others, I’m sharing my experience with the steps how to save your previous files. If you are consistently unable to startup your Macbook after 10 minutes or more, consider doing these suggested steps. 8 steps after the jump.

Being a technology outsourcing firm, Ideyatech works with various industries and corporations outside the Philippines. It has always been our observation that while the firm’s address is Pasig City, we are still referred to as “Manila” team due to its being located in the Metro Manila region. I am pretty sure that if our team of Java Development experts were located in…

Last Tuesday, the 24th of March ‘09, me and six of my colleagues from Ideyatech spent a few hours of bowling at Megamall’s Bowling Center. The highest scorer for the night was Julius, in his second game, garnering a score of 156, followed by Chris with a score of 152 in his third game. The highest average for the night goes to Chris. Complete tally after the jump.

Last January 30, 2009, the three-and-a-half-month-long Enterprise Java Web Development Training Program finally concluded. The second batch of trainees saw the fruits of their intense training with a short graduation ceremony last February 2, where they received their training certificates, and a small merienda treat from Allan. Pictures after the jump.

In my previous outsourcing partnerships, I noticed that while there was too much emphasis on processes, methodologies, and product quality, “soft” components of the projects and outsourcing relationships were mostly overlooked, if not completely neglected. This is rather ironic because one of the key points that either break or make outsourcing deals is culture.