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)

Pre-register now by filling out this online registration form!

UP ACM and Orange & Bronze Software Labs Ltd. Co. bring you the second lecture of the UP ACM Java Lecture Series. This time, it’s about Java Micro Edition, the Java platform used for making mobile applications. Guest speaker will be Mr. Aris Villarin of MEGAMobile Inc.

To register, please visit http://javalectureseries.upacm.org. See you there!

UP ACM, in coordination with Orange & Bronze Software Labs Ltd. Co., brings you the first installment of the UP ACM Java Lecture Series, Java SE: Back to Basics.

This lecture is intended for Computer Science freshmen, non-CS/IT students, and everybody who wants to refresh their Java SE knowledge. Guest speaker will be Mr. Rodrey Goite, 2008 cum laude graduate from the UP Department of Computer Science.

To register, please visit http://javalectureseries.upacm.org.

Chuk Munn Lee delivers a talk on Developing Mobile Applications with NetBeans IDE on the second day of Y4iT 2008 at the UP Theatre. A demo of JavaME running on PSP was shown at the last part of the talk.

Prof. Rommel Feria (UPACM chapter adviser) delivers a talk on The Future of Operating Systems at the UP Theatre.

Chuk Munn Lee delivers a talk on JavaFX on the first day of Y4iT 2008 at the UP Film Institute.

More…

Join and be a part of the most anticipated IT event of the year – Y4iT 2008!

The University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UP ITTC) and UP System IT Foundation (UP SITF) in cooperation with the Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE), Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP), and UP ITTC Student Volunteer Corps, present this year’s Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology (Y4IT), which will be held simultaneously at the UP Theatre, UP Film Institute and UP Bahay ng Alumni from September 2-5.

Now on its sixth year, Y4IT has continuously been the largest gathering of IT enthusiasts from all over the country. This year, Y4IT will be even bigger and better with more than 17, 000 anticipated delegates.

Y4IT aims to introduce students, professionals, and enthusiasts alike to current trends in information and communications technology, providing knowledge sources and opening for them learning and career opportunities in ICT.

Featured in the four-day congress are timely and relevant topics like Nanobiophotonics & Wireless Technology, eLearning 2.0, Blogging, Creating Independent Filipino Games, Social Networking, Blu-Ray, Java Certification, PhilNITS as a National IT Standard, Open Solaris, Outsourcing & Offshoring, News Portals: The New Information Channel, Geographic Information Systems, Library 2.0 and Beyond, IT in Medicine, Video on Demand, Mobile Animation, Ruby on Rails, Java FX, Marketing Reloaded, Wikipedia & Collective Intelligence, Information Security Analytics, Digital Media & Distribution Channels, IT Forensics, Cloud Computing, and many more. Aside from these, there will also be a number of side events which include presentations and exhibits.

For more information, just visit http://y4it.up.edu.ph.