Blake’s Code Studio

Ok, this is a copy and paste from their website…

This is AGLOCO™ ’s proposition, just three words: Own the Internet.

Whenever you are online, either surfing, blogging, clicking on an ad, making a purchase, all the money generated by your activities is pocketed by a small number of players. At AGLOCO™ they say not anymore!

AGLOCO™ is a global community, whose owners are its Members (you and potentially the millions of internet users out there). Their goal is to capture a significant portion of the value generated by our online activities and return it to Members in cash. Best of all, it is totally free, Members will NEVER have to pay anything, nor will they have to disclose ANY personal information!

How does this work? Once you sign up on their website, when available you will be able to download the Viewbar software, a free toolbar-sized application (half the size of a traditional Windows tool bar) that quietly sits on your desktop without ever hampering your online habits. That’s all you need to do! Just continue using the Internet as you used to… no need to change your habits!

Do you have several individuals using one computer? You can have different AGLOCO™ viewbars to fit the profile of each user.

Don’t want to see or use the Viewbar at any given time? Just minimize it and the Viewbar stops working!

There are different ways AGLOCO™ can make money for its Members:

* Cash: You get cash by surfing the Internet while the Viewbar is running. AGLOCO™ ’s profits are distributed back to its Members. And you can also receive real-time discounts should you choose to purchase from AGLOCO™ ’s partners. They will never include gambling or adult entertainment sites as partners.

* Shares: In addition to cash, AGLOCO™ will give out shares in the company to its Members. Eventually, AGLOCO™ plans to go public and will be traded on the London Stock Exchange AIM. You can start earning stock options by keeping Viewbar active while you surf. In addition, you will gain extra shares by referring active users to AGLOCO™ (they lose nothing). Click here to see the calculator.

The more people join AGLOCO™ , the more value the community can generate for itself. The company believes those that build the community deserve more: your own profits become larger the more people you refer. You can accumulate hours not only from your Internet activity but also from those who you refer, and their referrals too… Up to 5 levels underneath you! For example, if you refer 10 people and all of them refer 5 people each, you could make over 7000 shares a month*!

Remember, this is all free, you don’t lose anything, all you have to do is sign up, download the Viewbar and that’s it. Build your network and refer friends, family and colleagues to AGLOCO™ and earn even more!

The guys behind this idea include several Stanford MBA’s and a few individuals who started AllAdvantage back in 1998, which gave over $100 million to its users before falling victim to the burst of the internet bubble. Today, the context is much more favorable: The sophistication of on-line commerce, the rapid emergence of communities, the wealth of advertising revenue sources, etc. Isn’t it time you got your share of the Internet?

Don’t wait any longer. This is a win-win opportunity, and you’ll make it even more profitable for yourself when you start referring friends and relatives before others get to them! Since I assume you learned about AGLOCO™ thanks to my website*, please don’t forget to add my referee ID when signing up: BBBB5535. Click here to sign up directly!

What I think about this? It doesn’t hurt to to install. I also tag this under Java. Why? Because it looks like their website uses LifeRay Portal. Actually, I am pretty sure they use Liferay Portal to power their website. I must say, they really did some good tweaking to the templates, cause it looks very much different then the default view.

Previously in this post, I mention about using Eclipse with PHPEclipise plug-in. Well, good news to those who are interested but find it too difficult to install the plugin. EasyEclipse is a Eclipse distribution with tested plugins and packages ready for you! There are a number of distribution available, for example… Mobile Java, Desktop Java, LAMP environment, PHP and so on. Go check it out! They even have the Subversion plugin installed!

The PHP distribution have very similar plugins as what I am using now on my desktop… the difference is I took hours to set it up.

Looks like I am back with developing in Java. I have been using IDEA 5.0 for a while now, so I went to JetBrains website to download the latest version, 5.1.2. IDEA requires a commercial license and some of their plugins are commercial as well, so be prepare to pay for it. At USD499 per license, it is very expensive. But to me, Eclipse SDK is still not as good as IDEA in certain areas which… I think makes programming more enjoyable. Eclipse is open-source, free and have lots of community and big companies support. Personally, I use Eclipse with a PHP plugin to do my PHP stuff.

I would love to brag about the goodness of IDEA and compare it with Eclipse, but I think a quick Google would do much better.

oh ya… IDE means Integrated Development Environment. You can’t possibly program anything serious without the help of an IDE. It reduce errors, bugs and increases your productivity, the bigger the application, the bigger the “Goodness”.

After 1 1/2 months of dry session with projects stuck at pending phase, Patch IT have secured a Personal Information Management(PIM) synchronization project. This project will involve creating a VCalendar/VCard standard generator for a Java Enterprise suite, and new sync modules using Funambol (previously Sync4j) DS Server. I have previously did a project which involve synchronization with Nokia communicator.

This new module will synchronize between the enterprise suite and Microsoft Outlook. PIM data like contacts, appointments and task will be synchronized. Technically, it would take little effort to add support for new devices like smartphones, Blackberry and other SyncML compatible devices after this module is completed. The complicated conflict resolution for this project will be the biggest headache….

While searching for a good text-search engine for PHP, something like the excellent Apache Lucene for Java, I came across a post about PHP-Lucene Integration. Briefly, the post introduce a way to integrate Lucene with PHP via a PHP JAVA Bridge. This piece of software enables PHP to communicate with Java via a XML-based network protocol which can be used to connect a native script engine with a Java virtual machine. It is also stated that it is 50 times faster than local RPC via SOAP. Now this is really good news for me. I have been developing intensively with Java before I started my company, so my Java skill is actually better than PHP (but PHP is so much simpler).

I really PHP love using PHP because it is fast and easy to develop frontend of a web application with templates engine like Smarty.IMO, PHP as the frontend is more mature than Java. Java on the other hand, are excellent for the backend. Java technology like the upcoming EJB3, Hibernate, Swing framework are all really scalable and are design for enterprise.

I am REALLY tempted to explore a full scale PHP/JAVA hybird solution. @_@ But it doesn’t sounds really feasible because there aren’t many developers out there who are good at both PHP and Java. It WILL be a big problem finding programmers if I were to expand my business in the future.
Hmm… I wonder if I could get Cradle to fund my research. =)