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Three outstanding Filipino programmers and developers were named as finalist of the Kaspersky Lab Asia Pacific and Middle East & Africa Cup 2013. They became part of the elite top 15 regional finalists in the competition to be held at the National University of Singapore from March 21-23, 2013. The three Filipinos who will represent the Philippines were identified as Ivan Dominic Baguio and John

The Python bi-annual contest, more popularly known as PyWeek or the Python Game Programming Challenge is now open for registration. The Pyweek is a challenge to write a game using Python will starts its registration this coming April 14 while the voting for the theme will commences on April 7. Richard Jones was the main man behind the establishment of Pyweek during the year 2005. The contest

Stack Overflow, one of the best programming Q & A website have listed some of the world's most controversial programming opinions they ever received since the first day when the question was posted on the site last 2009. Although the questions was only available among select users but it garnered some of the most awesome and sometimes awkward answer. The answers of the questions about the

Ben Kamens, the lead developer of Khan Acadamy and has been part of Fog Creek revealed one of Amazon's best kept-secret, the mega dropdown. According to Ben, the hover effects in Amazon's "Shop by Department" mega dropdown are super fast. The submenu files launch quickly as your mouse moves down the list. Most dropdown menus have to include a bit of delay when activating submenus. He compared the

One of the most popular Google product, the Google Reader will meet it's inevitable end this coming July 1, 2013 as Google announced that the RSS service will be no longer available after the above mentioned date. Google Reader is a web-based program that let people subscribe to news feeds from their favorite sites. It has a huge following not only for bloggers but also, for some of the world's

Contrary to the recent news posted by BBC with the headline "Microsoft shares source code for Kinect gadget," this isn't the case, Microsoft has open sourced SOME samples that use the Kinect, not open sourcing all the codes. According to the news item, "Before now anyone wanting to use the Kinect had to work via an official software toolkit that hid the underlying code." There's a little bit of

If you encounter this error while running your application using either VB.NET or C#, this is most likely a problem with a reserved word in MS Access database. As you can see in the screenshot below, I have two reserve words used in my query. That is "name" and "section" field. If you have noticed, the "section" field is not enclosed with a bracket, ending up throwing an "IErrorInfo.GetDescription

There are thousands if not millions of programming websites that teaches students and programmer in learning how to code but only few of them have really established themselves as an authority. We have listed some of the most popular programming websites and sites that teaches programming that will surely helps us in one way or another, in our journey especially in enhancing our talents as

The Google I/O (Input/Output) or more popularly known as Google's annual developer conference will be held this coming May 15-17, 2013 but the registration will open this March 13, 2013. The annual developer conference will feature technical in-depth sessions alongside the latest Google's products teams and partners respective presentations. The conference will be at the Moscone Center in San

Programming is considered by many as one of the hardest task in any computer-related course but a pint-sized programming wizard Zora Ball made an astonishing achievement by creating a full version of a mobile application video game. The 7-year-old first grader, Zora Ball from Philadelphia's Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School accomplished a task that anyone are afraid of