Finally got a part of my dream… to become a developer. This is something I can be proud of considering I didn’t really graduated Computer Science. I was an RN, a registered nurse in my home country, although before that I did study ComSci. It’s just that back at that time, I didn’t took it seriously, and considering the fact that the level of education in the Philippines is rather low when it comes to Technology, even if I am to graduate in this field, I would still be a novice here in the US. I mean, I compared both the United States and my home country’s tech level, and no doubt, the US is far more advance. Back in my days, while we were just thriving on Turbo C, the US already has Java. However, I fared well in computer class. If I recall, majority of my classmates were relying on me for answers in our Computer Fundamentals subject. I also understood HTML with ease, and f**ked up our Computer Lab administrators job by destroying the lab computers with an FDisk DOS command – surprisingly, something he wasn’t even aware of. Anyway, that’s for giving us bad computers. Ah, those were the days…
Most of the knowledge I got in Programming are from the Internet, through self study. I don’t have books, and I found books harder to understand. I don’t have notes… but, I document everything I learned here in my portfolio so that I could access them again in the future (in case I forget). And, I don’t have enough money to finance my education, so I have to find other means in order to learn. Hopefully, this would be an inspiration to others. You can achieve your dreams if you work hard for it, no matter the odds.
I am grateful and forever be indebted to certain people for putting their trust on me and allowing me to grow, and giving me a chance. Guys, I promise, my growth will be your growth too! As while I expand my knowledge and gain more experience, I would also be able to provide more and better development tools that will improve your business and make work easier for everybody.
For the guys who might not get hired anymore because I automated your tasks… I am deeply sorry…
OK, what I have been busying lately? Well, I am creating PHP scripts that automatically fetches inventory. Before, inventory are being process manually. It was fine, but as the number of vendors grow, inventory becomes extremely hard to manage. Hopefully, this system will make inventory processing easier.
Sadly, I don’t have time to explain everything, but I will document it in another post, which will take place in the next couple of days. But to give you guys an idea how it was done… well, I am using XAAMP on my work computer since I am not yet attached to an actual server. Because of that, I don’t have these server apps that allow me to run CRON jobs. Now, what we were aiming here is for the script to automatically fetch the inventory file from the vendor’s FTP every 2 am. It requires a login username and a password so I created a script that automatically logs into the FTP server, retrieves the inventory file from there and saves it into local for our system to process. Then, I installed a CRON app on my Chrome browser that opens my PHP script every 2am. Anyways, I am going to document how it is done next time. It’s already 4am in the morning at the time of this writing so…
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