Coredump

Have been browsing through my mail a while ago when I got an invitation from Migs Paraz to join his techscene blog aggregator. Well, I must say I was flattered. I mean, I never intended for my blog to be much else but as a vent for my frustrations and idle thoughts.

It’s just as well, now that I think about it, nothing wrong with sharing what I’ve been learning in my (mis)adventures into technology (and in life). Still, I think there isn’t much to read in here, just the “random rants and raves” or whatever catches my fancy. Maybe when I do get around to having a particular project in mind, I might — just might — have something real (and original) to share. But for now, Migs’ readers will have to contend with — like what I told him — “insipid and content-free technobabble”.

By the way: I’m thankful that I got introduced to feeds. It’s a wonderful way of self-publishing content. Now I know that Blogger.com, for one, uses Atom; and there’s RSS 0.9, 1.0 and 2.0. Wow, I’m a bit overwhelmed, really. But it’s like being admitted into a toy store where you get to handle anything you want. Cool. Loads of information at the click of a button. This is what the internet is all about: leveraging technology to broaden the base of human knowledge.

Now, to separate cruft from the gems, well, that’s another story, er, post altogether.

The corporate intranet site in the workplace has finally been deployed. It’s called “NIAnet: The corporate intranet site of the National Irrigation Adminisration Central Office”, at http://intranet.nia.gov.ph.

It features news and updates on Central Office activities, discussion forums and polls, a document repository, and a content management system. It runs on Drupal, which was installed in less than an hour. With the addition of other Drupal modules, the complete site was set up in a little over two hours. It is served through a LAMP-configured box.

The site is still in its infancy, and there isn’t much to see. But soon, when content from the responsibility centers have been added, the site will serve as the portal for office workers, and, hopefully, be a venue to cultivate a networked corporate culture in the workplace.