My first PHP project.....E-Ebenta

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JDeveloper ADF Framework with Oracle database

Good day everyone!


I miss blogging...ehehe..Anyways, I would like to share my ideas about the tool JDeveloper. JDeveloper is an tool in making java programs like JavaServer Pages(jsp), servlet, java class, mobile applications, applet, and other things that java supports. We use JDeveloper in making our web application, create java class and JavaServer Pages. We have our own server and we use Weblogic server to host our projects. If you are a php and apache and mysql guy, your languange is PHP, your Server is apache, and your database is mysql. While in this learnings we will tackle jsp, weblogic and oracle which is the JSP is our languang, Weblogic is our Server and Oracle is our database.

You can download JDeveloper in this site(it includes the Weblogic Server):
Click Here to download

Here is the oracle database Express Edition:
Click Here to download


So we have now the 3 major software needed. In my next post we will have our quickstart in JDeveloper, we will tackle the coolest basic of JDeveloper. Hope to see you and be with me soon, together we will learnmore:D

USEP New Enrollment System

Enrollment system is the must have system in a school. When a student is enrolling for a specific course the school requires all the necessary information of the enrollee. When the school retrieves the important information from the student, the encoder now should input the details of the student in the enrollment system. In the enrollment system, the school can trace what are the standings of the students. The data of the student are inserted in the enrollment system it includes payment, subjects, number of units, section, subject rooms, etc. Lack of enrollment system in a school it can lead to chaos and troubles, the students will be confuse on what they should do and how they will do to be able to enroll. It is extremely useful in the school in the way of making the processes of enrolling much easy.

The university made a new enrolment system, at first you can think that it is good for us to enroll in a trouble-free way. I think the primary intention of the university is to minimize the long lines in every step of the enrolment period which is better for the students and the staffs. The intention of the university is good but when I started my enrolment I felt that it is much worst, because of the additional steps they made. I will enumerate the processes that I took in my enrolment. This procedure is for the old students only.



Step 1: Account Status

 In this first step the student must get their statement of accounts in the bookkeeper to check whether they have some balances or something problem about their accounts.

COMMENT/OBSERVATION/SUGGESTION

- For me it is better to have this step, in order that the university will know who the students are not fully paid yet. In the other hand why they implement this step if the student has a clearance that is to be sign in the bookkeeper which is indicating that the student has no problem in his/her account. In short, they are redundant.



Step 2: Local fees and org fees

 This step is in the previous enrolment system. In this part, the student is compulsory to pay the local fees and org fees. The student will not be entertained by his/her adviser if she/he has not yet pay the local fees and org fees.



Step 3: Advising

 Here, the students must proceed to their respective adviser for them to know what the subjects they will be enrolling are and to limit the student in overloading units.


Step 4: Encoding

 Encoding of subjects.


Step 5: Cashier


 The students will pay their tuitions and miscellaneous. They will go to the cashier and give the statement of accounts from encoded subject.




COMMENT/OBSERVATION/SUGGESTION:

- In this step, the entire student will surely be tired because of the long lines. If the university want that the enrolment system will be better they must give attention in this step which is paying tuitions and miscellaneous. All the students(except scholars) in the university will be taking this step and there are only 2 cashiers. Imagine how long the lines in the cahier.

- If they will give me a chance to implement a new enrolment system I will suggest that the student will be given a priority number and put an electronic number caller in the cahier. In this action the lobby area outside the cahier will not be filled with many students. Instead of falling a line and wait they will only wait their priority number to be called.



Step 6: Registrar

 The registrar will validate your account, local fess, org fees and your clearance. If all things are good, they will be stamping you OFFICIALLY ENROLLED.




COMMENT/OBSERVATION/SUGGESTION:

- The registrar made a strategy which is it has only one registrar for all the courses. It is ok because they have 8 windows.


Step 7: Library

- The students must validate their library card.


In my own view the diagram is understandable but they put to much beauty in the diagram. If I will be tapped by the administration I suggest in making a diagram or use-case diagram, that make it simple like for example the arrows they used are not connected. In a proper manner they must be connected to see the flow of the diagram.




The boxes in the diagram has some property that is not neccessary to be there, instead of putting beauty to the diagram they must consider the user. If the diagram is simple the students can be easily guided by it.

SAVE TAMUGAN RIVER!

SAVE TAMUGAN RIVER! A Manifesto of Support We concerned citizens, solidly support the Davao City Water District’s (DCWD) proposed Tamugan Surface Water Development Project (TSWD). We are aware of the looming water crisis in the city as pointed out by various independent studies1. With a city population rate of 2.84%, a rapidly declining forest cover2, and burgeoning commercial and industrial activities, there is reason to be alarmed. The TSWD is an imperative step to address this. Over the years, we have derived practically all of our water from groundwater sources. We have used up only 1% from our surface water, which is compelling enough to begin developing new projects such as the TSWD. We understand that the Tamugan River that will be tapped by the DCWD for its surface water project is the only river left in Davao City that has an acceptable water quality and sufficient volume to meet our future needs for drinking water3. We understand also that the proposed hydropower project of Hedcor within the Panigan-Tamugan Watershed may likely disturb the environment. It will certainly compromise the groundwater sources of the Dumoy aquifer which supplies water for the majority of Davaoenos. Hedcor undoubtedly has other rivers to tap, while DCWD has only the Tamugan River to utilize. The latter is our last remaining, economically viable, and physiologically feasible source of drinking water. Specifically, it is expected to bring new service connections to some 150,000 residents and improve existing services to more than 800,000 people. In view of the above reasons, we urge our national and local government officials to fully enforce policies designed to protect our water sources. We implore them to support DCWD’s surface water project and to declare the use of Tamugan River solely for domestic and municipal purposes.


PROTECT OUR ONLY FUTURE SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER!


-Councilor Leo Avila III

Occupational Health and Safety

6 Occupational Health and Safety




1. The area should have proper ventilation.

2. The area specially the working station has a proper illustration.

3. Any person who disassemble or assemble the computer should used her or his wrist trap ground.

4. The area should have a fire exit.

5. The area should have a trash can.

6. To apply personal safety pre-caution work only in a clean and dry area, remove all rings,wrist,watches and other similar items.

Implementing Information System Plan (ISP)

Here are the steps in implementing an Information System Plan

Project Management

-In this part of the implementation is more on the taking care of the new information system. It will be discuss here who will manage the new information system and what are the things he/she must do to manage the system properly. It also included here how they trouble shoot the system if there is a problem will occur. In a simple way, this part is how they will handle the new information system and how will move one from the older one to the new information system they have.


Data Conversation

-When implementing the new information system it is a must that you will consider what are the data will be transfer from the old system. They must specify what are needed information must be move to the new system. Here are some questions must be answer in data conversation:
• What issues are involved with converting the data (i.e., lack of a standard way of calculating interest from one branch office to the next)?

• What is the volume of data to be converted?

• Given time, costs and percentage of error, would a manual or automated conversion, or a combination of both be better?


Training

- There must be a necessary training for the IT staff and the general staff to run the information system in a smooth way. Since it is new system, a new way of operating the system and it must be study well the function of the system.

Climate Change Actions!

Climate change is any long-term significant change in the “average weather” of a region or the earth as a whole. Average weather may include average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. It involves changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over durations ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes can be caused by dynamic processes on Earth, external forces including variations in sunlight intensity, and more recently by human activities.

It is true that technology has been the biggest contributor of climate change, since technology is more on invention and invention needs more test and it uses some chemicals that can harm our environment. I really agree of that statement that technology is the biggest giver to climate change and I want that all the user of technology will help our environment for the sake of the next generation. As an Information Technology student of University Southeastern Philippines I have here a number of suggestions that can help reduce the effect of technology in global warming or climate change.

Suggestions in helping our environment and minimize climate change:

1. Proper Disposal of the Hardware. Proper disposal of the hardware can reduce in climate change and hardware that are not being used can be a source of income instead. Hardware can also be the cause of the climate change if it is not properly dispose. Old hardware or damage hardware can still be utilize by making them a decoration or something getting their good parts and put it into hardware. One good example also of disposal of hardware is that you can donate or sell to the schools that are studying about certain hardware for academic purposes.

2. Don’t burn plastics

3. Change a light. Replacing a regular light bulb with a compact fluorescent one saves 150 pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

4. Drive less. Walk, bike, carpool, take mass transit, and/or trip chain. All of these things can help reduce gas consumption and one pound of carbon dioxide for each mile you do not drive. If you are using car or vehicles that needs a gasoline to run or a diesel it releases waste from the machine of the vehicle. The waste that has been releases from the vehicle the air will be polluted. While if you are using only a bicycle you can save money, you can exercise and the best of all you save our mother nature.

5. Recycle more and buy recycled. Save up to 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide each year just by recycling half of your household waste. By recycling and buying products with recycled content you also save energy, resources and landfill space!

6. Check your tires. Properly inflated tires mean good gas mileage. For each gallon of gas saved, 20 pounds of carbon dioxide are also never produced.

7. Use less hot water. It takes a lot of energy to heat water. Reducing the amount used means big savings in not only your energy bills, but also in carbon dioxide emissions. Using cold water for your wash saves 500 pounds of carbon dioxide a year, and using a low flow showerhead reduces 350 pounds of carbon dioxide. Make the most of your hot water by insulating your tank and keeping the temperature at or below 120.

8. Avoid products with a lot of packaging. Preventing waste from being created in the first place means that there is less energy wasted and fewer resources consumed. When you purchase products with the least amount of packaging, not only do you save money, but you also help the environment! Reducing your garbage by 10% reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 1,200 pounds.

9. Adjust your thermostat. Keeping your thermostat at 68 degrees in winter and 78 degrees in summer not only helps with your energy bills, but it can reduce carbon dioxide emissions as well. No matter where you set your dial, two degrees cooler in the winter or warmer in the summer can mean a reduction of 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

10. Plant a tree. A single tree can absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

11. Turn off electronic devices when not in use. Simply turning off your TV, VCR, computer and other electronic devices can save each household thousand of pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

12. Segregate your garbage. by segregating the garbage properly it can help in minimizing the climate change.


Having this actions follow in minimizing the climate change, we can help our society, our environment and especially the next generation. Climate change can affect not only here in our country but in the entire continent. I will give you some of the effects of the climate change and try to react. With these effects of the climate change can you still take no actions?Here are some of the effects of the climate change:

• During the 20th century, sea level rose about 15 cm (6 inches) due to melting glacier ice and expansion of warmer seawater. Models predict that sea level may rise as much as 59 cm (23 inches) during the 21st Century, threatening coastal communities, wetlands, and coral reefs.
• Arctic sea ice is melting. The summer thickness of sea ice is about half of what it was in 1950. Melting ice may lead to changes in ocean circulation. Plus melting sea ice is speeding up warming in the Arctic.
• Glaciers and permafrost are melting. Over the past 100 years, mountain glaciers in all areas of the world have decreased in size and so has the amount of permafrost in the Arctic. Greenland's ice sheet is melting faster too.
• Sea-surface temperatures are warming. Warmer waters in the shallow oceans have contributed to the death of about a quarter of the world's coral reefs in the last few decades. Many of the coral animals died after weakened by bleaching, a process tied to warmed waters.
• Heavier rainfall cause flooding in many regions. Warmer temperatures have led to more intense rainfall events in some areas. This can cause flooding.
• Extreme drought is increasing. Higher temperatures cause a higher rate of evaporation and more drought in some areas of the world.
• Ecosystems are changing. As temperatures warm, species may either move to a cooler habitat or die. Species that are particularly vulnerable include endangered species, coral reefs, and polar animals. Warming has also caused changes in the timing of spring events and the length of the growing season.
• Hurricanes have changed in frequency and strength. There is evidence that the number of intense hurricanes has increased in the Atlantic since 1970. Scientists continue to study whether climate is the cause.
• Heat waves more frequent. It is likely that heat waves have become more common in more areas of the world.
• Warmer temperatures affect human health. There have been more deaths due to heat waves and more allergy attacks as the pollen season grows longer. There have also been some changes in the ranges of animals that carry disease like mosquitoes.
• Seawater is becoming more acidic. Carbon dioxide dissolving into the oceans, is making seawater more acidic. There could be impacts on coral reefs and other marine life.

After reading all the steps and actions to be taken to minimize the climate change, I will try to ask you if you can do it all the steps and action given for the future generations and for your own family? For me we can’t feel the all the effects of the climate change today but some of the effects are is in action now. Climate change can be a big disaster in the next generation and It could harm the people. We can use the given steps and action to minimize the climate change and we are also helping our environment by following those steps. While we are acting the steps given, at the same time we save our money. Just like if we use bicycle if we were going to the places that is not so far, also if we turn off the appliances that are not being used, and by changing our regular light bulb into compact fluorescent for the that the compact fluorescent is much affordable than the regular light bulb(yellow light).

After seeing the effects of the climate change I was shocked and I was thinking if these effects will happen how the people could face this phenomenon. One time I watch television (GMA network) and the topic is about the climate change and the effects of climate change in the entire world, I’m so worried and try to ask my self is this possible to happen? As the program goes along they prove that it could really happen it is also because of people. I’m scared of the time it will happen, if the effects will take place all of the people will be affected and will suffer from the disasters and it can lead to death. After reading some of the articles about climate change, I can also say that the technology is also one of the biggest contributors of climate change. But the biggest contributor of climate change is you and only you.