The UP ACM Membership Committee and Finance Committee is conducting a T-shirt Design Contest!

Category A: UP ACM Official Shirt

1. The UP ACM logo must be on the T-shirt and must be positioned where it is easily recognized by the eye (e.g., at the back, at the front-upper- right, at the middle).
2. The participant may choose not to follow the organization’ s colors (maroon and cerulean) in his/her design.

Category B: Fundraiser Shirt

1. You are not allowed to include the following:
   1. UP ACM Logo
   2. DCS Logo
   3. UP Logo
   4. UP Centennial Logo

1. Council Vote —- 40%
2. Member Vote —- 60%

• Category A: Free T-shirt + P500
• Category B: Free T-shirt + P250 + 5% of net sales

SALI NA!

UP ACM members, clear your calendars for the first GA of the year!

General Assembly (Recruitment and Renewal and Free food and possibly Parlor Games, haha)
Feb13, 5:00 PM @ D.Consunji Room, UP Bahay ng Alumni

See you there!

My wish for you guys is… not to meet silly people as described in Clientcopia. It’s not from the makers of the hits Overheard in New York or Overheard in the Office, but they’re all good stuff. Hit “Random” or click on the “Top 20″. Heck, you can even subscribe to the RSS feed.

We don’t want to do this full-page newspaper ad in color. It’s not about the money. We just don’t want the ad to attract too much attention

Client comment on a cover design for a governmental report of racial equality. “Can you use a blacker person? This guy is too light, and throw in an asian girl.”

we had just completed a website for a client and we wanted the client to make a final walkthrough so that they could give the green light for the launch. me : you can view the final version at the test location, http://www…. client : eeeuh can you print out every page for us for the final conformation? me : why? client : well the owner of the company (and apperently the only one who could give the green light for the launch!) refuses to use a computer. me : eeeuh ok

Client Comment when designing the cover of his company brochure - “make it internetty” Me Outloud - “Can you more fully describe ‘internetty’ to me.” Me In my mind - “I did not know that ‘internetty’ was a design style. I guess that means I should add a mouse pointer to the design…” Outcome - I added a mouse pointer to the design and he was happy.

Happy New Year, ACMers! Lapit na ang eleksyon!

Congratulations to the UPD Savers team for bagging the following awards at the recently concluded Trend Micro Tech Challenge:

• Third Place (overall) – PhP250000 cash prize (minus 20% prize tax, then divided by the number of members + coach?)
• Best Team Presentation (cheer)
• Best Teamwork

We’re proud of you guys!  Rock on!

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FINALLY!!! After several months of waiting for your check to clear, the USD1000 from ACM is now with the officers (gave it to Ardee, witnessed by Ia and Riza). Gave PHP54,000 to them (just took the fees that I had to shoulder to have it cleared).

Anyway, what do we do with the money? Do we plan for a grand Xmas party???

Ever wanted to create your own mobile phone game? Or itching to get known and rewarded for your mad game development skills?

Then drop by the Mobigame 2005 Seminar to be held this Friday at UP Diliman. Mobigame is a mobile game development competition and training sponsored by MMOG Philippines and DLSU. Get to ask the questions which matter, get the facts straight about this unique test of talents. Hear from the personalities behind the competition. And of course, freebies await!

This leg of the Mobigame 2005 school tour is proudly hosted by the Philippines’ one and only award-winning Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) chapter, UP ACM.

UPDATE (11/24/05): Competition mechanics can be found here.

The UP Diliman Team needs your support (and cheers!). Sign up at the audience list posted at the DCS bulletin board.

Clash of the Brains
November 24, 2005
College Competition (12:30 - 3:30 PM)
William Shaw Little Theater
De La Salle University

Schools:
Ateneo De Manila University
Far Eastern University
Mapua Technological Institute
University of the Philippines Diliman
University of Sto. Tomas

The UP Diliman Team:
Ardee Aram
Linda Sarmiento II
Michael Chua
Prem Rara

Coach:
Joyce Avestro

Good luck guys! UP ACM wishes you the best!

This fresh news has been brought to you by UP ACM’s C^3. Be a SIGBLOGger now!

Finally, after several months of waiting, MySQL 5.0 is here. What makes this release worthy of celebration?

As people would remember, there are two popular Open Source database systems that are usually implemented in student projects and UP’s IT infrastructure: PostGreSQL and MySQL. They have been branded as having niches, PostGreSQL’s would be at the enterprise, as set by the CRS Team and DEEERS. The main advantages of PostgreSQL in this aspect are the plethora of advanced database features such as table inheritance, views and triggers among others.

MySQL, on the other hand, had been thought of as the preference for personal and small to medium sized web applications due to its claim for speed and performance. Admittedly, the elephant (the logo of PostgreSQL) tramples the dolphin in data crunching and manipulation, but the dolphin (the icon that represents MySQL) gets much ahead in terms of speed. MySQL, or at least until version 4.x, lacks the features of PostgreSQL needed for enterprise use.

MySQL 5.0 is to change all of that.

From their site (http://dev.mysql.com/):

MySQL 5.0 Key Features

* Stored Procedures (not bad, not bad)
* Triggers
* Views (at long last!)
* Information Schema
* Archive Storage Engine

If only it can implement table inheritance for me… =)

“To most programmers, Lisp seems like an entirely alien language at first- One thing that I think the Lisp community has failed to do is convince other programmers that this strangeness is not an arbitrary obstacle, but a necessary adjustment that imparts great power to programmers that would otherwise be unattainable. The alien Lisp mascot and quirky logo designs are designed to accentuate the awesome (and, to most people, alien) power that Lisp languages have- At the same time, they show how fun Lisp programming tends to be and that Lisp has wide appeal far beyond the stuffy academia it is sometimes wrongly associated with.”

I couldn’t resist. When do you ever get to take Lisp lightly? I’m glad I survived it partially unscathed!

But Barski’s right though: give Lisp a chance. Like Math, you can’t let your fear of it overwhelm you. It won’t run short of your expectations, and will cause you twice the stress if you let it take over you.

I’ll post it at another blog. Eventually…

2005 Trend Micro Tech Challenge Finalists

Teams: Savers, UPBibo, Vulcan
Coaches: Susan Pancho-Festin, Sanjay Risbud, TJ Vergel de Dios

Congratulations! They will compete in the final round at Crowne Plaza Hotel at Ortigas on November 22-24 where they will vie for the PhP1,000,000.00 grand prize. Good luck guys!

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ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Programming Contest - Manila 2005

Teams: Booroongoo, Decided, Team Roger, UP BisDak, UP Team of Artistic Engineers, UP Wet
Coaches: Riza Batista, Mike Samson

You may not have brought the bacon home, but we’re still proud of you guys! Among the local schools who had at least two teams, only the UP Diliman and DLSU Manila teams were able to solve at least one problem (walang bokya, ika nga)!

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2006 BPI-DOST Science Awards

Awardee: Geo Lubaton
Finalists: Mai Sibayan, Carlos Lasa
Coach: Joyce Avestro

Hooray! Finally, after eight years (nine if 2006), DCS produced a BPI awardee once again! BTW, the last DCS awardee was Cattleya Sanchez, BCS 1997. Past BPI science awardees of DCS include Amelita Martija-Donaldson and Joanne Jill Olazo.

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Coming soon:
Clash of the Brains
MIT-PESO
HSBC Young IT Entrepreneur Awards
Undergraduate Research Competition

Congratulations! Win or lose, this world class organization is proud of you guys! Mabuhay!