EDIT: Tickets are already available!
A few more Thursdays to go ’til YesThursday, UP Fair’s Thursday offering!

Watch this space for more details.

Be a fan of YesThursday’s Facebook page here!

For ticket reservations, you may contact Gian (+639152597647) and Junnel (+639163005993) or email council@upacm.net.

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Interested players may register here!

The Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter congratulates the 10 teams that represented the University during the 2009 ACM ICPC Asia Manila Regional Onsite Contest held last Oct. 22-23, 2009, at the Ateneo de Manila University.

The team of Marte Raphael Soliza, Kevin Charles Atienza, and John Eddie Ayson (Mga SOGO Ni E.T.) was declared the champion, beating 54 other teams from Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. They solved all 10 problems in 606 minutes (including time penalties).

Meanwhile, the team of Joseph Jesneil Montalbo (Chairperson of the UP ACM), Jose Plutarco Bawagan, and Luke Wicent Sy was ranked fifth among all participants and second among the Philippine teams, edging the following team by only 34 minutes.

The rest of the UPD teams placed 10th, 12th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 26th, and 27th.

Because of their success, Soliza, Atienza, and Ayson are eligible to participate and compete in the 2010 ACM/ICPC World Finals, which will be held in February 2010 at Hanbin University, China. This will be the third time that the country will be represented in the prestigious programming tilt, and the first time for the University.

For the complete results, check out Dr. Raffy Saldana’s blog.

Update: You may register for the next two lectures right now!

Get ready to spin up a kick-ass website for yourself or your org!

On August 29, learn about the current standards and trends in designing a web site during the Web Design Basics lecture. Then on September 5, get to know the Groovy and Grails framework, the latest and hottest in web programming. And on September 12, improve the efficiency and ease-of-use of your website through a talk on Web Usability.

All lectures will be held from 1PM to 5PM at the Lecture Hall, Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall (across NIGS). Admission is free. For questions/whatnot, contact Rose Ann (0926 670 9286).

This series is brought to you by the Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter and Orange and Bronze Software Labs, Ltd.

weDesign Guidelines:

1. Eligibility. All interested participant must: (a) be a High School Student residing in the Philippines; (b) be currently enrolled in any high schools within the Philippines; (c) be familiar with any of the following technologies: (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript.
2. Team. Each team may consist of at most two (2) participants. A school may form at most two (2) teams.
3. Participant. Each participant cannot be a member of another team.
4. Registration. All interested schools may submit a Pre-registration form online or submit the attached Pre-Registration form via Fax. Online Pre-Registration form can be found on http://weDesign.upacm.org/
5. Contest Proper PREPARATION. Prepare the necessary image files needed for the web design creation. Use of copyrighted material is discouraged, unless the contestant has proper authorization from the copyright holder. Please show proof on the day of the event.
6. Contest Proper Mechanics.
   1. Teams are allowed to use any of the following software in the creation process:
      1. GEdit, Notepad any text editor
      2. GIMP
   2. Teams are limited to the following technologies:
   1. (X)HTML
   2. CSS
   3. Javascript
   4. JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
   3. The contest will run for three (3) hours only.
7. Judging. The web designs submitted are judged with the following criteria: (1) Ease of Navigation; (2) Creativity and User Appeal; (3) Usability; (4) Theme Adherence. Websites will be judged using Mozilla Firefox 3 on Ubuntu.
8. Substitution of Participants. The names of the participants and substitutes must be submitted three days prior to the event.
9. Winners. Winners are chosen by the contest’s judges and/or event’s sponsors. The names and schools of the winners will be announced after the judging period.
10. Timeline of Events.
    February 05, 2009: Start of Registration Period
    February 16, 2009: End of Registration Period
    February 20, 2009: Event Proper:
    8:00 am – 8:30 am : Registration
    8:30 am – 11:30 am: Contest Proper
    1:00 pm : Awarding
11. Theme. The theme for the event is: “Education in the 21st Century – What schools are doing with technology.“
12. Other Concerns. If there are concerns with the guidelines, please send your inquiries to ruzette@upacm.net

Register now at http://www.upacm.org/blog/acm-dsp-lectures/.

This competition is open to UP students only. Register now at http://www.upacm.org/blog/acm-pc/

Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter (UP ACM)

and

PHP Users Group – Philippines (PHPUGPH)

in cooperation with

Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co.

bring you

PHP Roadshow 2009

(UPD leg)

Date: January 31, 2009

Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Venue: Lecture Hall, UP Department of Computer Science

Tentative Topics:

-Basic PHP

-Basic MySQL adn Database Modelling

-CakePHP

-Introduction to CMS/Joomla

-Advanced CMS/Drupal

Admission is FREE!

Limited seating is available. Please pre-register now at http://www.upacm.org/blog/php-roadshow-2009/. Pre-registration is open until January 29, 2009 or until all slots are filled up. For more inquiries, please contact Ada (+639276785647) or email adcariaga@gmail.com

We hope everyone who attended had a blast. More party pics may be seen at http://ruzette.multiply.com/photos/album/65/UP_ACMs_Christmas_Party_2008 and http://upacm.multiply.com/photos/album/30/UP_ACM_Christmas_Party_2008

UP ACM congratulates the UP Diliman Programming Team for a successful campaign in the recently concluded 2nd Philippine National Inter-Collegiate Competition held on 22 November 2008 at the University of San Jose-Recoletos, Basak Campus, Cebu City, Philippines.

Five UP ACM members took part in the competition:

1. Bande, Neil Armin
2. Montalbo, Joseph Jesneil
3. Pinca, Apple
4. Pineda, Ralph Raniel
5. Sze, Jennylyn

The six UPD teams (each of which had three members) got the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 11th places. Kudos to the Team and its coach, Mr. Eric Tambasacan, who got the Best Coach award! For more information, please visit Dr. Raffy Saldana’s blog. (Photo courtesy of Neil Bande)