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Anyway, good thing was I was able to find answers with my research. And based from what i found, you can actually display comments using the following programming syntax:

#/* < your comment here > */#

So, for example, suppose i have a filter in ReportNet that goes like:


#/*Filter for Documents Produced under TA - Document Type*/#
(((cast([DMS REPORTS].[Pending Documents for Disclosure].[Closing Date],date) between ?paramStartDate? and ?paramEndDate?) and [Document Type] ='Documents Produced under TA' and [Project Type] in ('PPTA', 'ADTA', 'RETA', 'RDTA','PATA','CDTA'))

then this line -> #/*Documents Produced under TA*/# is treated as comment which the system disregards upon run-time. You can also use this in Framework Manager.

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I heavily use comments in my reports. And as they say it’s an ingredient for a good programming practice. =)

At first i thought making a simple quick hack into the captcha code to base the image on a reasonably bland photographic background would make a difference but decided to implement a much more secure and widely used spam fighter in the net which is the Recaptcha plugin. This is  just to make sure. You know how these spams work together to achieve their mission. Good thing was i was able to install recaptcha in minutes for my PHPBB3 Forum. I used to include Recaptcha code  in other Forums (i.e. SMF) which i manage as well and so far i am happy the way it works.

If you are not sure how this can be applied to your PHPBB3, then this procedure may come in handy which can also be found in:

http://code.google.com/p/recaptcha/downloads/list

Files you will need:

reCAPTCHA PHP plugin, available at:

http://code.google.com/p/recaptcha/downloads/list

Extract the file ‘recaptchalib.php’ and place it in:

%phpbb_root_path%/includes/captcha

Files that will be modified in your phpBB3 directory:

%phpbb_root_path%/styles/prosilver/template/ucp_register.html

%phpbb_root_path%/includes/ucp/ucp_register.php

Code to modify:

In ucp_register.html, locate:

<dd>{CONFIRM_IMG}</dd>

Then delete the following lines of code or comment them out:

<dd><input type=”text” name=”confirm_code” id=”confirm_code” size=”8″

maxlength=”8″ title=”{L_CONFIRM_CODE}” /></dd>

<dd>{L_CONFIRM_CODE_EXPLAIN}</dd>

In ucp_register.php, there are many changes that you’ll have to make,

so I’ll have to make the instructions compact.

/*Step 1. Place this code before the line “class ucp_register,” which

is near the top of ucp_register.php*/

require_once($phpbb_root_path . ‘includes/captcha/recaptchalib.’ .

$phpEx);

/*Step 2. Place this code after the line “global $config, $db, $user,

$auth, $template, $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx;” which is a few lines

after step 1.*/

// Get a key from http://recaptcha.net/api/getkey

$publickey = ”;

$privatekey = ”;

# the response from reCAPTCHA

$resp = null;

# the error code from reCAPTCHA, if any

$error = null;

/*Step 3. Place this code on the line “$confirm_id =

request_var(’confirm_id’, ”);” in other words, replace the original

code with this new code*/

$confirm_id = (isset($_POST['recaptcha_response_field']));

/*Step 4. Comment out or delete the following line of code.*/

‘confirm_code’  => array(’string’, !$config['enable_confirm'], 5, 8),

/*Step 5a. Go to the section:

// Visual Confirmation handling

$wrong_confirm = false;

if ($config['enable_confirm'])*/

if (!$confirm_id) {

}

else {

/* Comment out or delete all code within the first else statement

(which has nested if…else statements within it) and replace with the

code in Step 5b.*/

}

/*Step 5b. Place the following code within the first else statement.*/

$resp = recaptcha_check_answer ($privatekey,

$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],

$_POST["recaptcha_challenge_field"],

$_POST["recaptcha_response_field"]);

if ($resp->is_valid == false) {

$error[] = $user->lang['CONFIRM_CODE_WRONG'];

$wrong_confirm = true;

/*Step 6. Comment out or delete everything between the following two

lines of code. The two lines themselves are also deleted. In total,

you should be deleting about 13 non-empty lines of code*/

//first line of code.

$code = gen_rand_string(mt_rand(5, 8));

//last line of code

$db->sql_query($sql);

/*Step 7. A few lines after the end of Step 6, replace “$confirm_image

= ” and its values with the following line of code. Basically, you’re

assigning the variable $confirm_image with a new value.

$confirm_image = recaptcha_get_html($publickey, $error);

Step 8. You should be done. I hope. It works for me on my development

webserver, on a basically vanilla version of phpbb3.

There you have it guys. Why don’t you try it? It’s worth your time and effort. Needless i say, this totally saved my boards for despair. =) Thanks to Recaptcha Plugin. . .Kudos to the creators/originators of this helpful plugin for making it FREE and ACCESSIBLE! You make our lives easier. CATCHA !!!=)

http://code.google.com/p/recaptcha/downloads/list

Wow! Couldnt help but be happy just when i saw my alma mater on the list. How about yours? =)

I’ve been actually following such stories even during the Asian Week Magazine – days. And there is always this sense of pride and honor especially seeing your school/alma mater belonging to the top university rankings. If you haven’t figured what QS means then this might come in handy:

Q stands for Quacquarelli and S stands for Symonds.

QS was founded in 1990 by Wharton MBA, Nunzio Quacquarelli with offices in London and the US. Fellow director Matt Symonds and the Paris team joined in 1994. Today, QS operates globally from offices in: London, Paris, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney and Washington DC.

Today, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has become established as the world’s leading network for top careers and education. It links graduate, MBA and executive communities around the world with recruiters and education providers, both physical and virtual. The mission is to enable motivated people around the world to fulfil their potential by fostering international mobility, educational achievement and career development.

Representing the Philippines in the top 100 are University of the Philippines, De La Salle University, and Ateneo de Manila University. University of Sto. Tomas, on the other hand, lies on the 144th spot.  In the 2008 Global ranking, UP ranked #276, a big jump from the previous year’s #398 ranking.

Rankings per subject are as follows:

If you are living in Asia and are planning to advance to further studies then it would be beneficial and relevant if you take a glimpse of the top universities now in Asia. And according to QS.com, here are the top 10 Asian universities:

1.) University of Hong Kong;

2.)The Chinese University of Hong Kong;

3.) University of Tokyo;

4.) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;

5.) Kyoto University;

6.) Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology;

7.) Seoul National University;

8.) Tokyo Institute of Technology; and

9.) National University of Singapore and Peking University

For the complete list of the rankings in Asia, Europe, Country level, Australia and the US, you may want to visit QS.com

The ranking weights are:

• Peer Review Score (40%)
• Recruiter Review (10%)
• International Faculty Score (5%)
• International Students Score (5%)
• Faculty/Student Score (20%)
• Citations/Faculty Score (20%).

As I am also taking time to review some of the universities  offering masteral degree programs i.e. MBA, MSCS which i plan to take probably later this year, such publication is important as it serves as a measuring cup to come up with a wise decision when looking for a good school. And as Vice-Chancellor of Massey University, Professor Judith Kinnear says the THE-QS ranking is a “wonderful external acknowledgement of several University attributes, including the quality of its research, research training, teaching and employability.“ She says the rankings are a true measure of a university’s ability to fly high internationally. I couldn’t help but agree.

Which Philippine Universities do you think is  best for MBA Program ? Or for that matter anything related to Management? Any idea?

Ever since i saw this professional wordpress theme with a magazine facade  as i must admit i fell in-loved with it. Its been a long time since i last changed a shirt. But thank goodness everything came perfectly well and working and oh yes am still blogging! =)

The version i have here has a black-and-white  inspired skin. I was keen on playing around only the shades of black to white or  the colors in these ranges (gray, silver tone,dirty white) for this new look. This is to significantly highlight the colorful effect represented by the icons/images which i would add successively on each post. You see, i’ve had already this overdue plan of migrating to this wonderful template early this year. However, i decided not to rush things because later on i found out it has some major implications  which undoubtedly needed my attention. Migrating a blog from one theme to another is not as easy task as i thought it would be.  In addition, i need to get a personal touch of this arthemia theme. More likely, I had to reinvent, gather some ideas, make some twists and place some cool effects to make it stand out to deliver my own version which by the way took about a quarter  of my hectic time. This is actually the 3rd time that i did a blog total makeover. I decided not to dispose the old theme but instead  use the old skin for this blog which i also maintain  => Techronnati SEO until i found a better one for replacement. =)

Photo Credit: Joss Jones

Those who may  have stumbled this arthemia theme from other blogs can confess how powerful this theme really is especially if you are  serious– i mean SERIOUSLY  INTO BLOGGING. The best thing about this  is that you can grab this theme for FREE. Isn’t that cool? The author is kind enough to make this version free. Of course you wouldn’t mind changing your own as you don’t want to appear a replica of the original or else you would sound like  ’a-second-rate-trying-hard-copycat’ version. It would help if you know a little bit of php and css. That way you could transform the theme to something you really want….when you want it.

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The requested URL /Techronnati/wordpress/ibm-db2-cognos-tivoli-websphere-microsoft-google.html was not found on this server.

I was surprised. As a matter of fact, i was not expecting that to happen. Now you may probably ask, what the heck i was doing all along? You see, I was playing around on my wordpress’ permalinks structure, pretty much learning about Search Engine Optimization in the Wordpress CMS. And so without much idea, i delved in and tried to investigate one by one that’s causing this error. Later on, i found out that WAMP or any other similar localhost webservers that can be run from a local computer do not have mod_rewrite enabled by default. I also discovered that the AllowOverride directive is set to none by default WAMP server installation, causing Apache to ignore an .htaccess file. If this is the case, your WordPress installation might return a 404 error, stating post not found and you would only be able to access your posts via a default permalink structure. I.E. http://localhost/yourwebsitefolder/?p=2. Collecting some information i got, here’s what i did.

1. Using a text editor, open your httpd.conf file. In WAMP server, this file can be found in the \apache\conf directory
2. Sift for the following line of code in that file.
   

   #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

3. Next, remove the # from the line as seen below to enable the module: Just for information, # symbol is actually a comment syntax for httpd.conf. So this should look like this.
   

   LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

4. Then, search for AllowOverride in this httpd.conf file until you come to a line similar of the following:
   

   <Directory />
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride none
   Order deny,allow
   Deny from all
   </Directory>

5. Verify if AllowOverride All is indicated. Change “none” to “all” if found otherwise so this should look like this.

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>

6. Save the httpd.conf file and Restart your wamp server. (Click on the ‘moon’ in the icon tray and select Restart Services)
7. Login to your WordPress admin panel and set your custom permalink structure as desired. Then go view your site. Custom permalinks should now work on your localhost WAMP/XAMPP or other server.

Happy Blogging everyone.

With billions of websites delivering a lot of information these days, SEO becomes a critical and vital process to consider. And as i roam around, there seemed to be a lot of discussion going around with this topic and one of hottest i encountered is about whether or not to play with subdomains or use folders to increase SEO or google pagerank. Just like everyone’s else here wanting their pages to rank at topmost of the search engines, i also am keen to understand the secrets of how these search engines work i.e. how they crawl and rank web pages. For this reason, to accommodate my quest to solely focus in this field i decided to create a subdomain. You would probably ask, why subdomain and not subfolders? I say, Good question. I tell you the reason on my succeeding post  =). Coz i need to hit the gym now! =)

But if you are too curious,  follow me on this link. =)

PhotoCredit: martin.canchola

Taking my journey to study and learn about SEO and optimizing web pages, i decided to join the much talked contest in the SEO World today… it’s none other than The 2nd Busby SEO World Cup Contest which is sponsored by the Busby Web Solutions. Yes, you heard me right. =) You see, I’m not really expecting to win BIG… now that’s B.I.G.  on this challenge anymore knowing i joined just MINUTES or HOURS ago (YES SADLY, VERY LATE INDEED!!!) =C. Moreover, this contest started literally like 4 months ago – on October 1st 2008 to be exact and would soon end in two weeks time at exactly 31st January 2009 (12:00 midday, Perth, WA)…Now how’s that? I know there’s no more time to get things polished but how can you ever pass up this prestigious competition knocking on your door waiting to be unfolded? Time may fall short but hey, it’s everybody’s game, right? LOL, So here i am with an open mind and courageous heart making things happen. For most of you who don’t know, this is actually my first time  and hopefully not the last to join such SEO Competition and still i claim not an expert in this field. Besides am not really after the prize money (Ow’s cm’n, lol, are you kidding?) but honestly my purpose is to hone some of my basic SEO skills and eventually learn from the SEO experts out there through tutorials and some readings about the in and out of Search Engine Optimization. =)

There’s only one purpose for this challenge and that is to rank your website at the top of google searches with the keyphrase to be used: “Busby SEO Test” . Landing your website #1 in google will ultimately make you the SEO Master Title Holder and win the grand prize of a whopping $5000. “Gee, Not Bad!”, i thought, thinking that translates to roughly around P250,000 in my local currency. I know a lot of SEO Webmasters and professional SEO challengers today are already making it into the front pages of the google search engines so i won’t be putting much effort to get this site “in” the competition. All i can do is just lay down the basic foundation of what i know about SEO, learn more on the web optimization process and hopefully do my best to get myself noticed =).  You may or may not agree with me but i feel there’s already some sense of accomplishment and fullfilment once you see your website has gotten to the top 100 SEO searches for making this “Busby SEO Test” keywords. And getting to this far on the game is already an achievement which i firmly believe is more than just the monetary reward at stake.

For those late bloomers out there, lol,  or those who are just having second thoughts about joining to this Prestigious competition, i guess there nothing wrong if you feel the “seo urge” of  joining. All you have to do is sign up for FREE with this link. Bear in mind to always follow all the rules of the game to avoid disqualification and i hope that i am following the rules strictly myself. So what are you waiting for?  JOIN NOW or you miss this once-in-a-life-time opportunity that change your life forever.

I guess am just enlightened and inspired… and I hope you feel the same. =)

Happy Busby SEO Test -ing!

Now that am back, let me thank everyone for keeping this blog ALIVE and well-read. And hear this good news… my google pagerank now has just turned 2. Yippee!! Sounds surprising… at least for me. All the while i thought i’m not doing pretty well in the google searches and other search engines. So, tell me is this just good luck? Or is it because Google has updated some technical stuffs and program algorithms on their crawlers which definitely affected my ranking? Or needless i say, should i expect this to happen knowing how long i have been into blogging?
Whatever comes in mind, let’s leave it that way for the meantime and let the engines do their thing. =)
I’ll probably share some of my discoveries into SEO in the next succeeding posts so keep those surprises hanging and subscriptions on. =)

Yes, year 2009 is just beginning and i hope to bring new discoveries, new tutorial tips, new icons of technologies and new beacons of knowledge to share. And as I extend my best and warm wishes to you for this brand new year, I hope this year brings you enough success to keep you eager, enough failure just to keep you humble, enough joy to candidly share with others, enough trials to keep you staunch and resilient, enough hope to keep you happy, enought faith to banish depression, enough friends to keep you comfort, enough determination to make a day better than yesterday… am wishing you just enough ‘coz according to Spice girls “too much of something is bad enough.” and i couldn’t help but agree. =)

Happy New Year to all! =)

Looking forward to a fruitful year,

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What is tabbed browsing?

A function in a Web browser that hides the current Web page behind a tab and presents a new blank window for continued browsing. All browsers keep track of pages visited, and clicking Back and Forward moves through them. However, after a long period of Web surfing, the pages of most interest are often interspersed between a slew of others. Tabbed browsing creates multiple browsing sessions within the same browser window.

Multiple Browser Windows
Opening multiple browser windows has always been and still is an alternative to tabbed browsing. Users with large monitors and dual monitors often prefer two or more pages on screen at the same time

Tabs in Internet Explorer

Tabs in FireFox with the FireFox Plugin- Color ful tabs

Tabs in Apple Safari

Did you see the coloful tabs in FireFox? Yes, thats the colorful tabs plugin in Firefox.  Just by comparing each of these browsers above, the one in firefox exudes a glowing effect making your browsing experience even more colorful..

Here are some of the features of the plugin..

ColorfulTabs is a Firefox extension that colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish. It also beautifying the overall appearance of Firefox. ColorfulTabs does one and/or more of the following -

• Beautiful colours – A beautiful in-built colour palette.
• Unique Colours – Colour each tab with a different colour for easy differentiation.
• Colours by site domain – Colour each tab depending on its server/domain
  for identifying the website.
• Custom tab colour – Give your tabs a colour of your choice.
• Enhanced tab highlighting – Fade the background tabs to identify the currently
  selected tab
• Easy Options – Quick tab-context-menu for ease of access to the options.
• Colors each tab using pre selected colors in a definite order starting from
  the left.
• Colors each tab using a unique and randomly generated color.
• Colors each tab using a unique color depending on the site domain using
  a formula.
• Allows user to chose colors.
• Allows to fade the background tabs for easy identification of the selected
  tab.
• Allows quick identification of the tabs.
• Allows quick identification of tab boundaries.
• Increases usability and visibility for people with visual challenges.

http://colorfultabs.binaryturf.com/colorfultabs.html?v=3.6

What are you waiting for? Download the plugin now.

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Due to the great interest in our new Take It Again voucher program, we are extending the time period for you to request your Take it Again voucher throughout the month of November. 

If you have not yet heard about Take It Again….. it is an exciting new initiative we are piloting in 2008. With this program you may purchase a special voucher that allows you to retake a certification exam for no additional cost. During this pilot period, Take It Again vouchers are offered for all four of the new IBM Power Systems tests and for the six Lotus Notes and Domino 8 core exams. (See the complete list of eligible tests on the Web: www.ibm.com/certify/process/tia.shtml ). 

All Take It Again vouchers must be requested by November 30, 2008. Although the voucher order must be submitted by the end of November, you will not have to pay for the voucher until you are ready to first register for the test. 

The vouchers are valid throughout 2008, and will expire at year-end. Both the first use and (if necessary) the second use of the voucher, must be redeemed no later than December 31, 2008. So all the tests must be taken this year. 

Please visit the following IBM website for more details: www.ibm.com/certify/process/tia.shtml

Or, go directly to the Prometric website www.prometric.com/ibm/TIA.htm to get your vouchers today! 

Your IBM Professional Certification Team

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“Wow!”, I mumbled. Thinking that this could be the chance to get certified with Notes Domino 8 Program. The best part is that you can get a voucher in the event in case you want to retake the exam with no extra cost. Based from what i’ve read from the previous articles, they have been implementing this IBM Take It Again Voucher Program since last July 2008 closes until 31 December 2008.  

As i browsed on the links from my email account, particularly at Prometric site center, you would see the rules of the said promotion and the list of certification exams which this voucher applies to. Check it below.

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Pilot Promotion: IBM is evaluating the use of a Take It Again voucher. As a result, we are introducing an offering for the limited number of tests, listed below, through the end of 2008. At that time, we will evaluate extending the promotion to many of our other tests across our product lines.

Rules of the Promotion:
1. All vouchers must be requested by October 31, 2008. http://www.prometric.com/ibm/tia.htm
2. Both the first exam and (if necessary) the second exam must be taken by December 31, 2008.
3. The voucher may not be used with any other voucher or promotion code.
4. The voucher can be used at an Authorized Prometric Test Center only.

IBM Lotus exams and IBM Power exams

Lotus

• 834 – IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Application Development Foundation Skills
• 835 – IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Application Development Intermediate Skills
• 836 – IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Developing Web Applications
• 847 – IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 System Administration Operating Fundamentals
• 848 – IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Building the Infrastructure
• 849 – IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8 Managing Servers and Users

Power Systems

• 330 – Power Systems Technical Support for AIX and Linux
• 331 – Power Systems Sales for AIX and Linux (also in Japanese, European Spanish, and French) 
• 973 – Power Systems Technical Sales for the IBM i Operating System (also in Japanese, European Spanish, and French)
• 974 – Power Systems Techical Support for i