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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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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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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Thank you so much for those who trusted our Majapahit newspaper theme by using it on their  websites, we take immense pleasure in preparing the next release of the theme with many fixes and introducing new features. So what do we plan for the next version?

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Free themes are being released every now and then, some with high quality that should have been charged pricey and others are just well… free.

Even though you can search endlessly free themes out there, premium themes are also been able to survive the market, most of the times because it was build on complex settings requiring developer support, and  many are just too beautiful to be released free.
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Surely students are spending more time on their social network site than any other educational websites like wikipedia, howstuffworks, discovery etc, and there’s no way on earth anybody can stop them from doing so.

But the least any school can do is while those students are online is to give them little bit touch of education from their teachers or fellow friends. We can do this by getting the e-learning system up and running where teacher share learning materials, quiz, discussion, chat, document management and perhaps some social activities between friends.

These are some of the most powerful open source learning management system that can easily adopt by any school, institution or any communities. Most of the systems support SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model - a collection of standards and specifications for web-based elearning). 
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