iblog4. Early morning stuff

Morph Labs is an active participant and a sponsor at this event. Here are a couple of thoughts while waiting for the event to start.

7:30 There were only about 10 of us; Early birdies with organizer Janette , expectedly doing some tests with a youtube vid. I'm not sure but I thinks it's the Gorrel guy. Revelations, juicy.
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8:00 Tried the wifi. Asks for password. I was told they will give us the specs later.
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8:30 People were really now coming in with traffic piling up at the registration. Had to go inside as it is beginning to get really warm with the Manila summer. Team is here. Saw Prof Rom at the registration line.

Left seat to check on something and when I came back somebody's already seated. Was confused on which seat to take. Up between view and ease of movin around - toilet or to the Morph desk set at the lobby. Chose ease and access to electrical outlet. Nice.

8:45 Pax are now reading the packet contents. Curious about what Morph is up to. The audience is pretty diverse. I see some students as well as not so young ones. I'm part of the latter.
Such a chore to be lugging bag with an old digicam 'heavy' and Macbook charger.
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8:55 Almost 9. Nice venue here at Malcolm. It has been more than 10 years since I've been here and nothing's changed much but first time to be seated here inside the theater. Love the AC. Newsgator to pass the time. Pinoy Bossa music on the background. OST.
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9:00 Just saw a guy with a jester hat on. Totally screaming 'Look at me!"
I'm on 9th row so I'm wearing glasses, looking odd.
Where's the connection? Need to post on the iblog4 at the morph eXchange.
I'm itching for some twit twit. Itchy fingers already.
Macbook is still pretty heavy. Wouldn't it be great to have an Eee? I Wish.
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9:15 Prof Disini from College of Law - Blogger; So this theater was just newly renovated. Timing. Enough already. Have to listen.

You can also follow this at the iblog4 forum; or if you prefer -my Twits

Ruby Hero Award

I thought the guy's at RailsEnvy were just makin' fun or something but this has got to be a real treat for the Ruby and Rails community. Doing code sure is grinding at times but this goes to show that they can also be both fun and relevant at the same time.

Care to share your thoughts on who your six (6) recipients will be? Click the pic above and cast your vote.

We Listen (and oh, yes we respond and act on it)

Justin Ball of Nobody Listens Anyway has posted a very interesting review of morph eXchange. His is maybe the first review of our butterfly company published in the blogosphere. To think that it all began with a simple comment I posted on his site where he wrote about cloud computing. He said he'll look into it and he delivered. You can read the complete post here.

At the end of the post, Justin wrote:

"Morph is a great service. Deployment is simple. I give them lots of points for ease of deployment. They can help you scale as they are using Amazon?s services on the back end. However, if they are going to be successful they really need to examine their bandwidth charges and become more competitive. I would like to see their website adapt a bit to make it clear that they offer scalable hosting. At first I was confused and assumed it was only a service provider - something like a hosted CMS system. Overall Morph Exchange is great, but I think they need to make a few changes to become excellent."

Ain't that a beauty? Not only does it prove we have something of value here (really) but that meaningful conversations can happen over the web and that people actually do care about it especially when it is based on respect.

Again, I would like to thank Justin for the post. But then, let me digress if you will, "we hear yah and we're listenin."

Morph :: Taking April Fools Seriously

We got to spend a little downtime (of the good kind) over coffee and milkshakes with George and Junie after an exciting Morph Code last Saturday . And we were, unfortunately, still discussing work after a long day that began at midnight with only a few hours of shut-eye. We can only nod our heads in agreement that it truly was quite a week! Bear me with me a little...

And since it's already April, we also got to hear stories about things people do during this day - more popularly known as April Fools. It's unbelievable the things people would go through to make this day memorable like using a fluorescent marker to brush the inside handle of the phone and then making a call to the person which resulted in colorful cheeks and one not-so-happy person planning for some retribution.

You can now check for yourself the new Morph eXchange. Not only is the site more reflective of the staff and the culture now, but more importantly, there's plenty of value to be found inside like the Morph Appspace which can be your very own application delivery environment.

The Morph eXchange becomes "the launch pad into the world of Software as a Service" beginning with Ruby on Rails developers who need more than hosting to deploy and market their web applications. True SaaS, free from all the constraints, begins April 1. Again, try it for yourself. Sign up, click and browse to find out the solutions and services we're offering.

Hopefully, it won't just be us. Heck, we hope to make you part of this. too.

No hoax, no joke and no kidding.