You might notice our latest post is dated back 3 months ago, it’s because we are currently engaged in a big project, our hands are nailed to it that we almost completely shut-off from our routine blogging activities.

But now, our project is almost reach its mature level which means we can spare some time away from it. And we are excited to get back to Tobacamp and perhaps share you bit about our big project.

we will re-evolve the site immediately to give you new perspective, hopefully we can start constructing it within next week.

please visit back soon.

regards,

Tobacamp Team

The biggest problems for student beginning their adventure in design world is their lack of confidence.  Following their ego only to see the world already filled with finest designer and realize their own is just far behind those their admired. But even the most creative designer have to start somewhere, and let me present some of them who has the potential to compete in the fierce and challenging industry.

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Time magazine recently released a list of decade’s biggest tech failure, most items noted on the list is no surprise at all, but there are also few that doesnt belongs.

Windows Vista as expected deserve to be on the top spot of the list, no one wants to argue about it, the combination of bad PR and media frenzy has flush the product out. Released in early 2007, Vista only able to grab 24% of the market compare to XP 62% domination. Microsoft engineer was later pushed to the limit to produce Windows 7 to recapture the market.

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you might try this one, a featured slider widget for wordpress.

Easily put a slider in your wordpress installation by installing this widget without a need to hack your theme (or finding theme with featured slider widget).  of course if you know how to custom wordpress theme this widget will be more flexible since you can place the slider anywhere in your theme.

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Ever wonder what would’ve happened if the concept of “open Source” never existed? imagine a world where knowledge grows by the numbers of production release by few major company only and people have to wait for a while to experience new technology… say something like computer processor where we have to patiently buy a new series each time those major vendors decided to release their “10% improvement products” instead just releasing the “perfect processor”

The Open Source concept brought people from around the world to contribute in making things better, faster and reach the next level of technology in just nick of time.
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As we promised a few days ago, we will launch facebook-clone wordpress theme version 2. Actually, this is not the upgrade version of our first facebook-clone theme, Facebook Lover. It’s our brand new facebook-clone wordpress theme, called Facebook Addict.

What’s new in Facebook Addict?

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We got several theme ready to launch this May, some already reach its mature level which means in just matter of days it will take the spotlight, we had Facebook clone theme for wordpress version 2, Newspaper theme, Blog and Portfolio theme.

One of them you can look forward to reach the market shortly is our Portfolio theme “Web Warrior”.
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So we can be a hero, just like you, just like you… the higglytown heroes.

well that’s a snippet lyric from the children animated series Higlytown Heroes, the idea is to show to kids that you can be a hero on every jobs, from plumber to astronauts. And in the open source world, anyone can be a hero, since an application can be crafted from hundreds of programmer from every corner of the world.

But of course in every success stories there can be at least a name worth mentioning, the one that make all the differences, he can be the pioneer, the lead programmer or the mastermind. and in here i want describe few of them that successfully has made  web a much better place.

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You can find tons of information out there on the web about how you can make money online, from monetizing your blog to putting your skills to use, here are only some of quick guide for you to cashing in money using your skills or… your Luck!

Having skills in Web Development surely will open you a wide opportunity in earning thousands of dollars, check out this article we wrote some time ago where we list out web skills most demanded by the world today. And once you feel that you are ready to compete here are some of the place on the web where you can start earning.

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Millions of web worker around the world trusted MySQL as their dbms, why not; it’s powerful, stable and definitely open source!, but be careful on the last one.

This week Oracle agreed to purchase Sun Microsystem for 5.6 billion USD which could become the most influential acquisition in the IT history. The thing that scarred the open source community is what will happened to Sun’s open source project, to remind you they have MySQL which Sun recently purchased and is one of the most powerful open source project on the web to date, then there’s Java, considered as the world’s number 1 programming language, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, JavaFX and Netbeans.

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