Marcky the traveling geek

The Drupal Association announced to the world that they would want to host the next Drupal Conference in India for 2016. With that they listed points for picking locations for the planned event (captured from this page) Popularity People want to visit the host location to site see. Strong local community Size of the...
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Original press kit from BackdropCMS.org is available at https://backdropcms.org/presskit Warning: THE DERIVATIVES BELOW ARE NOT OFFICIAL LOGOS. THESE ARE ART-STUDIES FOR MY PROJECTS. The following work are not commissioned nor endorsed by the Backdrop CMS team :-) Rationale "Backdrop" according to the official press...
One of the popular Drupal base-themes you'll find that's being used in multiple / related open-source projects is a humbly-named theme called "Radix". What is Radix? Started off as a base-theme for Panopoly distribution, this theme has slowly sprouted into different Drupal distributions (pre-packaged Drupa...
Ang bilis talaga ng panahon. Dumating na si Pope Francis, natapos na ang Sinulog at Ati-atihan festival (pati Dinagyang), at mabilis na dumating ang bagong taon. Isa ako sa mga taong naniniwala sa new year's resolution, ngunit para sa akin ito ay mahabang proseso na nagtatagal sa buong taon at hindi upang makip...
NOTE: not a final draft/edit by Marcky (traveling in North Luzon)
Attending the GDG DevFest Cordillera/Baguio event - I just learned that there's a GO (programming language) community here in the Philippines. As per my discussion with Tzar Umang the GO Philippine users (hence "GOphers") & developer community is quite small at the moment. However, the intention is to slowly g...
After missing my ferry boat-trip to Tagbilaran (and already late at 9pm) - it's clear I have a dilemma. Do I ... [a] find & book accommodation so late this evening? [b] sleep at the Pier? [c] find a decent place to do my work? As a self-confessed workaholic, it's more tempting to work and try to make...
That dude who suddenly invaded the Philippines is celebrating the birthday of his travel blog. When I first met this foreigner at a hostel - I didn't know he was "that guy". After forcing him to eat in a street carinderia, stroll through the red-light district of Makati during daylight, take lots of crazy sel...
(photo by Ace Reston) Did you attend the very first Drupal Camp Cebu this 2014? Then I don't need to tell you that it was fun and packed with up-to-date trends + techniques in Drupal. IT IS ALSO THE MOST INTERNATIONAL Drupal event in the Philippines attended by -[almost a hundred]- 130 participants. MOST INTERNATION...
It was a Monday in October in the Philippines. You'd expect rains with lots of it unexpected. At one point I decided to go out for some dinner and (as usual) announced it to interested guests at the hostel (MNL). My invitation got one yes - it was Oscar - one of Spanish guests at that time. We've had casua...
So I asked: in your previous visits in the Philippines, which of the 7,100+ islands is your favorite so far? The audience were in unison with a loud 'awwwwwwwwww' when the special guest-speaker answered ... he has not yet seen Palawan, Camiguin, Bohol, Cuatro Islas, Siquijor, not even Boracay ...Matt said he's only...
If you haven't heard, Andrew Hoppin just announced the availability of their new brand & business venture.It's called NuCivic - and it's very promising (especially if you're into open data or working with government data projects). To know more about NuCivic and their products, visithttp://nucivic.com/products/ ...
So I was walking my way to the intersection of Makati-Ave & Gil Puyat to find a jeep going to RCBC - then suddenly this gorgeous bus appeared out of nowhere! ... and I jumped in. At first glance, it looked very familiar - since similar transport buses are available in Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia - at least t...
>NOTE: this is an early-access preview. What you see in future updates or reviews might be different from this post. So the friendly team members at [Themeski.com](http://themeski.com) granted me an account so I can explore their exclusive **Drupal themes pipeline** - and I'm so excited to check out everythin...
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SADOCE at Smart Tower "Sadoce"(pronounced: sa-do-seh) is a canteen-style food & events venue located at the 12th floor of the Smart Tower in Ayala. trivia: 'Doce' means 'twelve' in Spanish. 'Sa' can mean "Over thereat ..." in Filipino. Sadoce on FourSquare (link) Sadoce on Google Maps (link) How to Get There?...
Setting up drush to work on your local bash shell Open a bash terminal Create a .drush folder mkdir ~/.drush cd ~/.drush git clone https://github.com/drush-ops/drush.git #to get latest drush codebase from GitHub ln -s ~/.drush/drush/drush ~/bin/drush #So you can run drush as a local command. Create bin folder if do...
So you have a flurry of WordPress sites to manage? A battalion of developers and content authors to work with? Traffic management, mobile & seo tweaks - and ordinary day can go crazy, right? NOT with Pantheon! When you're tasked to manage your WordPress sites on Pantheon, everything seems so seamless and easy. H...