• Ebooks & Scripting - A Birthday Short Story written on

    This is just another simple post on how I write Python scripts to help me with manually taxing tasks. I included a script in this post that made it easier for me to rename files in bulk. If you are curious on how I automate some boring tasks, read along: python_script_1

  • Learning Workflow written on

    Hello. I want to share my workflow in learning MOOC courses, YouTube video tutorials, audiobooks, e-books, and tutorials online. We all learn differently. I can never claim that my way is better than others. However, I can only describe what works for me. Also, “my way” incorporates what works for others, too. This article describes some things I learned from reading these books and how I incorporated these learnings into my workflow: Building a Second Brain and The PARA Method learning_1

  • A New Journey - Learning iOS Development written on

    It has been a long time since I dove into app development. Do I still have what it takes to effectively learn a new language. Another journey begins. I enrolled in one of the major MOOC learning platform, Coursera. The certification may take a year and a half to finish, but I may be able to take courses that are not prerequisites of each other simultaneously:

  • Applying Machine Learning in IT: written on

    image-20220819185803387Collecting logs is a standard practice in IT. Normally, giving storage space to newer data is a prirority that is why most systems clean up their logs or historical data for after some time. The decrease in cost of storage devices made possible to keep historical logs longer than usual.

  • Installing Samba Server on Ubuntu/PopOS written on

    mapping the samba folder in Windows 10The goal is to be able to reach certain directories of my Linux server from my Windows computer using Samba. This way I can transfer files between my server and any client computer that on my network.

  • Simple Comparison: Bash versus PowerShell written on

    This is just a simple glimpse into how I use Bash scripts and/or PowerShell scripts on my Windows 10 machine to automate my workflow and do more than one thing at a time.

  • Git it? written on

    “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive, but those who can best manage change.” - Charles Darwin. As a designer, developer and even a self-proclaimed artist, I often struggle with finalizing any project or creation that I have to offer to clients, students, or audience. The notion of change, movement, refactoring, versioning, evolution and other variation of not being complacent with the “current moment” engulf my mind. Even when I find the clarity to put a period, deadline or finality on whatever I am saying, working on, or creating, something at the back of my mind expects that one day I would have to revisit these obra maestro.

  • Methodology: Obtaining and Cleaning Data written on

    data pipeline If you are scared with the possibility of AI taking our jobs, be more scared if the data that we feed AI do not undergo any cleaning prior to being fed to our Machine Learning models. This article is a glimpse on how such preprocessing is necessesary to have some meaningful and unbiased information from big data …

  • Journey In Learning: Data Scientist written on

    Journey in Learning: Data Science In my journey to become a data scientist, I was able to learn from various introduction courses using MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses. I started with Coursera’s offering from the John Hopkins’ Data Science Specialization: link to the Data Science course in coursera.org

  • Exploratory Data Analysis on Computer Security written on

    sample dashboard panel Looking into log files can help computer security experts identify threats. However, it would be expensive if we rely on human to do collection, observation and analysis. Data Science can help automate this task …

  • Disaster Recovery Planning - Computer Security written on

    A picture of a sample Disaster Recovery Plan Template There are two types of documents that computer security students will find helpful in both learning and documenting a strategy to minimize computer security risks. These two are often required in most courses I took from teachers in traditional, online, and MOOC schools. As I progress in my career in computer security, I advocate the search for the right balance in security and privacy. I currently help local companies to embrace the need of security while providing ease in computing and acquiring the peace of mind that data is projected.

  • Journey Learner written on

    image of journey in learning logo Life is the ultimate university. Just when we think that we are done with school after getting our official diploma or certificate from a brick and mortar school or an online MOOC site, we find out that we still need to learn new things … our “Journey in Learning” resumes …

  • NostradmsX written on

    NostradmsX is the pseudonym I started using way back during the prominence of AOL and Yahoo. I have varying genesis stories associated with this pseudonym.

  • Wanna be like Michael Jordan? Read along.. written on

    I remember watching basketball with my dad. My team was the Chicago Bulls, led by Mike, and his was the Indiana Pacers, led by Reggie Miller. Mike retired with championship rings but retired earlier. On the other hand Reggie played longer but was not able to win any championship…

  • A Day @ XLDP written on