by Jovie Cabais | Jun 20, 2010 | Tech Updates
The WordPress Community released WordPress Version 3.0, the latest release of the very popular content management system that allows web developers to deploy websites quickly. The release was a culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors which included 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements. The new version includes the merge of WordPress-MU and WordPress. WordPress-MU is the multi-user version of WordPress and the merge means that WordPress may now be used to run multi-user websites instead of WordPress-MU. Also included is a new theme, called Twenty Ten, that features the various options available on the new revision. A new addition that will help content developers is the custom post type that the administrator can define. This allows types of posts with specific fields to be implemented rather than one type of post with different fields to fill up depending on what type of post you want to publish. WordPress users are encouraged to upgrade their installations to take advantage of WP’s new features. Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Jun 20, 2010 | Tech Updates
DYWC, a popular AM radio station in Sibulan, Negros Oriental, launched the station’s worldwide broadcast on June 13, 2010 during its annual fiesta pontifical mass held in honor of its patron saint San Antonio de Padua. Auza.Net enabled the wordwide broadcast using the same technologies implemented for the local radio station DYRD-AM. Although currently still on test broadcast, it already has received several happy comments from its listeners who are abroad or in other parts of the Philippines. Station manager Fr. Ramonito Maata and Bishop John F. Du of the Dumaguete diocese invited all listeners worldwide of DYWC’s flagship program ‘Bandilyo’ to tune in to the broadast on its website www.dywc801.com. Listeners from UK, New York, California, Las Vegas, Sydney, Texas, Cavite, Cebu and other places around the world have posted comments on the website expressing their appreciation of DYWC’s worldwide broadcast which has made them feel like they are close to their home province. Auza.Net used open source software to implement the audio streaming technology on a Linux based CPU. It also used cloud computing technology to implement a very reliable streaming server capable of handling several simultaneous users. Since the streaming server is located in the US, most listeners in the US are able to listen to the broadcast with minimal or no buffering at all. The whole system is packaged by Auza.Net as a turnkey solution for radio stations who want to implement its very own worldwide broadcast. By using a VPN or virtual private network system, the company is able to remotely manage the streaming CPU allowing the radio station to focus on its broadcasting...
by Jovie Cabais | Jun 13, 2010 | Tech Updates
Auza.Net ends this year’s summer OJT program with a simple ceremony held at the Auza.Net main office with the 15 trainees receiving certificates of completion. The program included about two months of on-the-job training on Linux, Google Apps, web development, content entry and a bit of photography. In his inspirational speech, Jerome Auza, the technology consultant of Auza.Net, congratulated the students for successfully completing the OJT program. He said that the things they have learned during the training should be shared with others to help spread the skills and knowledge to more students to prepare for future jobs. He also encouraged them to use their skills so they could earn money to help support their final year in college. The trainees tackled different website projects covering different aspects of website implementation such as data collection, design and implementation of WordPress themes as well as content development. Some of these websites will be released for public use later this year, adding to the company’s portfolio of free online information websites. Previous OJT programs yielded successful projects that are now used commercially such as the DYRD-AM Worldwide Broadcast via media streaming technology (www.dyrdam.com), Bohol News Daily (www.boholnewsdaily.com) and Bohol Classified Ads (www.boholclassifiedads.com). [add two pictures from culmination ceremonies] [reserve space for ad form of the website contest details] [JOIN NOW!] Auza.Net Web Design Contest Contest entries are still accepted until June 30, 2010. Final judging and announcement of winners will be held during the Sandugo festival in July. The contestants are required to find an actual company or organization as sponsor in order to join. The contestant will develop the website...
by Jovie Cabais | May 30, 2010 | Tech Updates
Auza.Net, the pioneering information technology firm in Bohol, holds the first Auza.Net Web Design Contest currently participated by 17 students from the three universities in Tagbilaran City. Contest entries are still accepted until June 30, 2010. Final judging and announcement of winners will be held during the Sandugo festival in July. The contestants are required to find an actual company or organization as sponsor in order to join. The contestant will develop the website design for the sponsor and if the contestant wins the contest, the sponsor will get a 1 year free subscription to Auza.Net’s Website Management Service. The contestant will win a cash prize of Php5,000. Contest entries should comply to the following requirements: 1. Must be based on core installation of WordPress from www.wordpress.org version 2.9.2. 2. Template design should be based on any of the existing WordPress templates found on the WordPress website 3. Template code of the final design must not be significantly different from the original template except for the graphics and CSS 4. Domain name for the sponsor should be either currently owned by the sponsor or is unregistered. 5. Must work using PHP5 and MySQL5 and must be installable on Auza.Net web hosting server 6. Should not require extra browser plugins. Only Flash plugin is allowed 7. Should only use WordPress plugins installable from the WordPress administrator interface Entries will be judged as follows: 1. Compliance to requirements: 40% 2. Relevance to sponsor’s line of business: 10% 3. Aesthetics and user friendliness: 30% 4. Popularity: 20% After the contest entry is submitted, the contestant may ask friends and family to vote...
by Jovie Cabais | May 23, 2010 | Tech Updates
The past week was very interesting with losing candidates complaining of election fraud caused by the alleged reprogramming of the PCOS machines. The supposed proof of such fraud are the dates and times on the PCOS machines not matching exactly with actual dates, and the ‘koala bear’ witness who claimed he was involved in the election fraud. One candidate claimed that there is fraud because the random manual audit did not match with PCOS count on 4 out of 5 machines but he wouldn’t say how much discrepancy was there. Another claimed that transmissions of the results were intercepted and a different set of results was transmitted. While such allegations are easy to make, the evidence of such alleged cheating should be presented at the proper forum. Also, they should take into consideration that a potential evidence, like the incorrect dates recorded, cannot be refuted. Even if the dates are not exactly correct, if the results submitted matched the election returns, then there is no cheating. The dates on the PCOS machines may not have been set to the exact time but its primary purpose is to record the sequence of events and in that case, it doesn’t need the exact dates because you only need to know how long is the period between events. Reprogramming the PCOS machines would require highly technical skills and such reprogramming has to be done in a very short period of time. Any one trying to do this must have deep pockets, close contacts with COMELEC and Smartmatic, PNP and military and are able to corrupt the volunteers of the PPCRV, pole watchers...
by Jovie Cabais | May 16, 2010 | Tech Updates
Auza.net hosted websites www.dyrdam.com and www.boholnewsdaily.com recorded user traffic several times than normal daily traffic due to the interest of many Boholanos around the world on the first automated elections on May 10, 2010. DYRD-AM Worldwide Broadcas peaked at almost 5,000 page views in a 24 hour period between May 10 to 11 when it started to publish the unofficial tally of the COMELEC results based on the official website that published the precinct counts. This number of page views is 20 times higher that normal. Most users did not notice slowdown of the sites. This unprecedented capabilityof Auza.net hosted websites to survive usage spikes is proof of the company’s robust server infrustructure hosted at a US facility. When Boholanos needed to get information about the elections, the websites did their job. Share...
