Archive for September, 2009

Typhoon Ketsana (Pagasa: ONDOY) Smashes Into Metro Manila – UPDATE – NEW IMAGES

Every year, the Philippines has approximately 20 typhoons enter the PAR (Philippine Area of Responsibility). This year had been a very mild tropical season, occasional rains, but only a couple of very mild storms. All of that changed last Friday night when Tropical Storm Ondoy decided Manila was ready for a visit.
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Are Vampire Clients Sucking the Life Out of Your Business?

I hear freelance horror stories on a fairly regular basis… Unanticipated hours spent trying to please a single client that won’t be pleased, countless revisions when the client doesn’t even know what he or she wants, doing all of this after the client argued for a huge discount in the first place.
If you’ve ever been [...]

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DoItYourSocial Networking Platform Alpha Release

My company, DCGWS Internet Solutions has been very busy building over the last six months or so, a highly sophisticated social networking platform that can be easily installed on any server. This project is not based on any pre-existing platform, but contains many of the features seen on very popular websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, [...]

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