Singsys blog

An evening with Google, DHL and Paypal at GoGlobal Seminar Singapore

It was a nice and fruitful evening at GoGlobal seminar conducted jointly by 3 giants with focus on SMEs in Singapore. (more…)

Singapore is going for Fibre-Optic based Nationwide Broadband Network

Soon whole Singapore will have fibre-optic based Next Generation Nationalwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN). Nationwide work is ongoing to bring this new technology to all residential, commercial and industrial properties. This new utility offers broadband speeads that are at least 100 times faster than today. This is going to change the way people live, work, learn and play in Singapore. (more…)

Beware of freelancers, what you pay is what you get

Singsys has several clients got duped by fly by night freelancers at various online meeting places. These guys from Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Philippines offer attractive price and lure innocent non-IT savoy clients in to their trap just to grab $50 or $100 advance payment and after that stop communicating or do a little bit of work and disappear. Some even offer to clone Youtube and Facebook like sites for couple of hundred dollars. (more…)

Drupal 7 to be released on January 5th (with one ginormous party)

Drupal 7 has been a multi-year effort on behalf of over 1,000 contributors. Since February 2008, we’ve manged to make enormous improvements; it is a true metamorphosis for designers, developers, and administrators.

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Future of PHP

PHP is already popular, used in millions of domains (according to Netcraft), supported by most ISPs and used by household-name Web companies like Yahoo! The upcoming versions of PHP aim to add to this success by introducing new features that make PHP more usable in some cases and more secure in others. Are you ready for PHP V6? If you were upgrading tomorrow, would your scripts execute just fine or would you have work to do? (more…)