The 2008 Olympics: Whatever your Politics

Just wishing all the athletes to give their best shot (Not sure it sounded, right but I don't mean doping).

Best part for us mortals is being able to watch. Tips from Silicon Alley.

And national pride:

Our only hope?

Booth-strapped at the POSS

Just have a couple of minutes to publish this as we're in the thick of the Philippine Open Source Summit. It's the last day! Check colleague Macel's Twitter for snippets and updates of the days' highlights.

They're not geeks. Great. Steven Hodson on Hutch Carpenter.

" Hutch is one of the few bloggers who occupy my Tech Thinkers folder in FeedDemon and that is simply because he write posts that much of the time make you stop and really think about what his writing about. He isn’t one for writing fluff pieces and doesn’t play the typical Techmeme regurgitation game that many bloggers who have been writing for even longer than Hutch has."

Ruby on Rails: On the Asia Pacific Express. First Stop.

There is no doubt that Ruby on Rails or Rails has become such a popular web application framework. The buzz about it has taken a life of its own making icons of Mr. DHH and even leading others to proclaiming that it is the best.

But what about this part of the world. Quick surveys of Rails communities using G00gle in Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, India & Philippines) suggest that it is growing but apart from Australia, it seems that group activities have been few or at worse, lifeless. I'd like to think that the Rails developers are relatively quite busy with jobs and projects but my gut feel says that for something that is "open source", Rails communities in Asia, ironically, don't feel close knit.

Hope I'm wrong though.

Next: Building the Rails Orient Express

Coming out with a bang, Philippine -style

What a time to free this blog!

Thanks (but no thanks) to the coup plotters who are engaged in a stand-off at this time at the Manila Peninsula, this date will be extra memorable.

How will this affect the country's economy? For the different business industries, investors and of course, the working class Filipinos?

Though most of the Filipino techies and webbies stay glued to their PCs and laptops most of the time, I bet they still cannot shake off this cloud of gloom and check for developments by heading to the merry TV broadcasts now and then.