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Tech for disaster coordination and management

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Raindrops will keep falling on our heads this season of the year, and yet this rainy season’s starter already induced headaches for our new administration with regard to its disaster management tactics. First was the alleged erroneous forecasting by PAGASA, and the most heartbreaking of all is the lack of calamity fund for the rest of the year. Seriously? We only had like one or two series of rains, not even storms, these past few months and the past administration already spent 70 percent of our calamity funds? Talk about disasters!

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Drooling Over Databases: SQLite, PosgtreSQL, and CouchDB

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

I’m pretty excited about this article because I’m a database fanatic / addict. For those who don’t know what a database is, simply put, a database is where your data is stored and defined (whether by a schema or by documents). You use databases everyday as long as you use a computer, a cellphone, or even a website. And for the past weeks, we’ve seen awesome news from the open source database systems community, which means we will have upgrades on how we use our databases. I’ll start off with something very new and fresh.

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