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1. Technology Trends and the Skills You Should Learn Calen Martin Legaspi CEOOrange and Bronze Software Labs

3. Technology Director - Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA)

4. Industry Representative - CHED Technical Committee for Computer Science

5. Co-Founder - Association of Filipino Java Developers (PinoyJUG)

6. Member - MuayThai Association of the Philippines, Wrestling Association of the Philippines

8. Consists of 140 member companies generating close to $1 billion/yr in revenue

9. Activities

10. Overseas marketing

11. Capability development - especially in Industry-Academe linkage

12. Government relations

14. Secondary: Other Aspiring IT Professionals Business Analysts Systems Administrators Project Managers Applications Specialists Marketing / Sales Others

18. Function calls on remote machines using HTTP

19. Programs can be of different technologies

21. REST

23. Servers, storage, support, virtualization...

24. Fast scaling / auto-scaling

26. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

30. PaaS

32. The Internet of Things

33. January 2010, scientists create a working transistor of only six carbon atoms

34. August 2010, AT&T and Verizon announce that non-human subscribers exceed human subscribers on their networks

36. Self-configuring

37. Embedded

38. Connected to the internet

41. embedded in everything

42. interconnected devices, complex networks, massive data

43. Applications

45. Other important specializations:

46. Embedded devices (esp. sensors)

47. Any CoE, ECE, EEE students out there?

48. C/C++; Linux

49. Cloud Computing & Big Data

53. High levels of code quality

54. Intense collaboration and communication

55. Minimizing waste

56. Test-Driven Development

58. Test-Driven Development

59. Domain-Driven Development

60. Design Patterns

61. Version Control & Continuous Integration

62. Learn to work in teams Participate in as many projects as possible, ideally software projects, but other types of projects are good too

65. Still no EA, Activision or Nintendo locally

67. Which programming languages should I learn? Salary survey from Indeed.com: Java: $95,000 C++: $95,000 C#: $92,000 Python: $92,000 Ruby: $90,000 VB: $85,000 PHP: $81,000

69. Useful for both web and mobile

71. Not suitable for web / mobile / enterprise

72. Entrepreneurial opportunities in embedded devices

74. Server-side: Java or C#

75. Client-side: Javascript& HTML5

76. Prefer to develop server-side skills but compliment with Javascript

78. Separation of concerns

79. Domain Driven Design

82. Vision To create a Filipino technology company admired by the world.

83. Vision Contribute to rebuilding the Filipino technology community.

84. SoftwareDevelopment & Design Clients Offshore Philippines

85. Training & Coaching Clients

87. Sponsorship of technology events and organizations

90. Highest engineering standards

91. Excellent trainers and mentors

92. Challenging projects