Constant Random Change

As mentioned in my earlier Tweet, I’ve begun streamlining my sites to make them more functional instead of just being yet another outlet for my thoughts (we’ve got social networking sites for that).

First thing on the list was to replace my Sweetcron Lifestream with a single page portfolio. The reason behind this is simple: when people go to my website, they would expect to see information about me and not a stream of all of my social networking site activity.

As to the design of the page, I only had two main points to keep in mind:

• It has to immediately convey “I’m Bryan Bibat, software engineer. Here are my works, and if you want to hire me, contact me here.” Anything more than that would make my site less useful.
• It has to reflect my identity.

The identity part is a bit tricky, though I could summarize it as “simple, yet subtle”. As you can see from the redesigned bryanbibat.com, everything is simple. No flashy graphics, just a clean one-page HTML site. The subtle part is the inclusion of jQuery for the scrolling and the lightbox — both unexpected features.

I think the more subtle (or should I say, more “bry” ) part of the whole redesign is the “mirror” gimmick. The image above would spoil you already but anyway, here’s the gimmick: visit both bryanbibat.com and (my newly rented site) bryanbibat.net.

Yup, each is an opposite version of the other. The symbolism behind that, I leave to the reader. Heck, I might just be screwing around with the visitors and there might not even be a deeper meaning behind it.

The fun part? The HTML code for both sites are exactly the same.

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That’s pretty much the biggest change that I’m going to do for this streamlining thing. The other stuff is mostly invisible to my network anyway.

I’m now selling books to help cover for shipping expenses spread hard to find knowledge to people thirsty for information. More information here.

Will spend the rest of the week in UP Diliman for Y4iT starting tomorrow. My planned schedule was posted here.

Will try to post short comments about the event either here or my Twitter account (I don’t want to pollute my Plurk with IT stuff ).

(Logo c/o Y4iT site)

Lean marks the 100th daily entry post for this blog. Yay, me!

To mark this occasion, let’s look back to those 100 posts and see if we could find something interesting.

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No article for tonight. The picture above can explain why (click for larger image).

- Added some new links to the sidebar: Technorati, Delicious, and Lifestream.
- Added Google Analytics to the Lifestream so that http://www.bryanbibat.com will show up in Google.

Spent the day tweaking my SweetCron based frontpage lifestream (nakikiuso as usual ). The theme’s currently a mix between Tarot and CCG frame templates. If all goes well, I should be able to tweak that to use more xxxHolic and Persona motifs.

It’s already 10 PM so I’ll keep this short.

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If you’re a Computer Science student, you should at least learn the following before graduating regardless if it’s in your college’s curriculum or not:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• basic photo-editing/image manipulation

Trust me on this.

The daily entry for today is an update to the About This Site page.

Post filed under Productivity because we can’t be productive unless we know our purpose.