Latest Blog Posts for Sankofa: From Script Kiddie to Professional Software Developer

• Imbestor: The first and only mobile app that tracks the performance of all Philippine mutual funds and UITF products
  on Apr 14, 2015 in Articles
  In this article, I chronicled my experiences on developing my first Android application. Imbestor is a free app to track the performance of your Mutual Funds or Unit Investment Trust Funds. Imbestor is the only free app that supports almost all of...
• 2010 Was All About CHANGES or My 2010 Year-End Special Blog Post
  on Dec 31, 2010 in Personal Career Non-Programming
  Never in a bazillion year would 2009 Ian have anticipated what 2010 Ian was about to do in 2010. 2010 was all about firsts. It was a year full of new experiences. Of changes. It was a year that I found new friends (yes, not a typo). It was a year tha...
• On the High Turnover Rate of Software Developers or How to Retain your Best Software Developers and Programmers
  on Sep 26, 2010 in Articles Job Programmers Programming Software Development
  It is not exactly news that programmers love to quit their job. It is an industry-wide obsession. The annual turnover rate for the High-Tech industry in 2008 is a little bit above 20% (2 out of 10 employees quit every year). A typical programmer on a...
• Fighting Inflation with Investment or Why I Decided to Invest or My Financial Enlightenment
  on Aug 1, 2010 in Articles Personal Personal Finance
  Just a few words before I start: I am not here to offer you insurances, investment “opportunities” or some form of “networking” – No, I am not an evil sales agent and I don’t have much time on my hands to play around with “networking”...
• On the importance of the automated 2010 Philippine National Election
  on May 9, 2010 in Articles Philippines
  This post will contain my thoughts with regards to the Philippine election… Specifically my thoughts on “Voting as a right and how it affects the current political climate in the Philippines”, “the importance of the automated election and wha...
• Windows Live Writer: The best offline editor for Wordpress or A biased Live Writer review
  on May 9, 2010 in Site Related Site News
  Live Writer will now “automatically” detect your blog settings and make the appropriate change for you! It’s the perfect WYSIWYG experience. It’s like your composing in Microsoft Word – the familiar feel of "Word” is everywhere and I will...
• In defense of KPOP: Is KPOP Jologs?
  on Apr 4, 2010 in Articles Personal KPOP Non-Programming
  Recently, there have been a lot of hate towards the KPOP fandom in the Philippines and KPOP itself. There are a couple of Facebook fan pages that are dedicated solely in hating KPOP. While searching for the term “KPOP Jologs” on Google, I...
• Buying Mix-style headphones in the Philippines or My YesAsia shopping experience
  on Mar 20, 2010 in Articles KPOP Online Shopping
  In my previous post, I have illustrated and explained the “science” of online shopping and at the same time, revealed my addiction to fascination with cute Korean earmuffs and my tiring search for a local store that sells Mix-style head...
• How to buy stuff online if you’re from the Philippines or My First Online Shopping Experience
  on Mar 7, 2010 in Articles KPOP Non-Programming Online Shopping
  As a self-proposed geek and a professional software developer, it is hard for me to admit that I was totally clueless about online shopping for the longest time. Early last year, I got hit by the Hallyu wave and got addicted to all things Korean. KPO...
• Laziness, Impatience and Hubris or How to download Work Item attachments programatically using TFS SDK
  on Jan 24, 2010 in Articles C# Programming TFS SDK
  Larry Wall, the creator of the infamous Perl programming language, has once said that the greatest virtues of a good programmer are Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. To not mislead the lazy “computer science” students, allow me to define e...

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