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MANILA, Philippines --- Harnessing the power of technologies in 2012 to save lives, raise Filipinos' quality of life, and make science and technology (S&T) people-friendly have been the constant thrust of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

The DOST counts on its 18 attached agencies to come up with life-changing initiatives anchored on S&T.

DOST, its attached agencies, and other stakeholders make up the Philippines' S&T community.

Secretary Mario Go Montejo of the DOST has made clear yesterday the government's objective.

''DOST is focused on how to save and improve the quality of life of the Filipino people,'' he said.

He cited the significant role that Filipino scientists play in coming up with life-changing technologies.

''The challenge is for our scientists to make Juan de la Cruz feel the benefits that science and technology would bring to his life,'' Montejo stressed.

Looking back this year, one of the first things that would come to mind is the P1.6-billion Project NOAH, or the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards.

President Benigno S. Aquino III led NOAH's launching last July 6 this year in Marikina City, fittingly near the banks of perennially overflowing Marikina River.

Together with its eight components, chief among them DREAM-LiDAR for 3D-mapping of the country's 18 major rivers, NOAH was designed by Filipino scientists and other local bright minds to save lives and communities when Mother Nature unleashes its fury as it often happens in the Philippines.

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Enterprise VOD: Kajoo, A Joomla Frontend for Kaltura - Nuno Zimas
The aim of our session is to introduce Kajoo, a set of Joomla extensions which offer flexible interfaces to handle media assets stored on a Kaltura powered streaming server. The primary scope of Kajoo lies in the content distribution industry. As such, it largely extends Kaltura #39;s data handling capabilities in order to address very specific needs professionals in this area are faced with. All crucial aspects of advanced video management are covered, from ingestion to broadcast, rights management and the associated sales cycle. Rather than cramming the market with yet another take on UGC, we have decided to focus on developing a tool tailored to broadcast experts. Still, the basic workflow remains intuitive and friendly enough to be used by the hobbyist producer. By seamlessly integrating the most popular CMS with the only enterprise-class open source VMS, we are attempting to bring video-on-demand to the next level. Through the sheer power of Joomla, Kajoo models the face Kaltura has been missing. In our presentation we will briefly describe the context which gave birth to the project, the development process, the current status, the challenges ahead, all backed by a real world implementation.

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Content? Management? System? - Elin Waring
We call it a content management system but what does that mean in the web today? What we mean by web content has changed radically since 2003 when the Joomla! #39;s content model was created. New ideas like the Unified Content Model are poised to reshape how we think about creating and managing original content. At the same time, the web is more and more about pulling and pushing data from all over and web site construction is about putting together external data in original and compelling ways that empower users. Other newer parts of the Joomla Platform empower applications to Managing this new mix of internal and external, user generated and site generated, service providing and service consuming also needs different structures and designs than the web of 2003, when using just a database was really still in its infancy. And system? Well we know it will be called Joomla! but how do we put all those pieces together? Joomla CMS 4 is less than 2 years away ... let #39;s start a conversation about what it will look like.

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Rapid application development with FOF - Nicholas K Dionysopoulos
So, you #39;re a Joomla! developer. I feel your pain. Are you tired of endless copying and pasting similar blocks of code in order to create the skeleton of a Joomla! component? Do you find yourself rewriting pretty much the same code to display the information of your component in a module? Wouldn #39;t you love it if you could just create a few database tables and template layout files, then let Joomla! automatically use this as a component? Sounds like a pipe dream? Not quite. If you just said yes to most (or all) of the above, it #39;s time to take a look at FOF. FOF means Framework on Framework and, quite counter-intuitively, is not a real framework. It extends the Joomla! MVC and database classes to bring true RAD (Rapid Application Development) features, HMVC and a lot of other cool features to Joomla!. It #39;s GPLv3 and can be used with Joomla! 1.5, 1.7, 2.5 and 3.0 at the same time. In fact, it #39;s what powers all software built by AkeebaBackup.com. API stability and compatibility with pretty much every server Joomla! can run on is not just wishful thinking; it #39;s reality! And since it merely extends the Joomla! core MVC infrastructure, you can use the Joomla! Platform framework you are already familiar with, without having to learn the ins and outs of a brand new framework.

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Our Joomla! Challenge To You - Ryan Ozimek Brian Teeman (The Joomla Odd Couple)

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