Cisco Skills Competition 2011 @ MSU-IIT

It was time again for the Cisco Skills Competition 2011. This is an annual event among Cisco Networking Academies. Its a networking competition where CNA students go head-to-head trying to network, troubleshoot and generally just figure out small to medium size data networks. This displays their technical knowledge, confidence, leadership and analytical skills.

The Cisco Skills Competition 2011 - Cluster F was hosted generously by MSU-IIT in Iligan City. We hope that next time around Capitol University will get to host the Competition.

From Cisco Skills 2011

I would like to thank my students for participating. From the Computer Studies, Carl Tanilon (Captain), Roldan Baldo, Nick Ranario for the Basic Networking category. From Engineering, Andrew Arañas (Captain), Marites Unabia, Charles Borres. Although, I know we didn't win first place but 2nd and 4th place ain't so bad in a field of seven.

From Cisco Skills 2011

Link to the picture album: http://picasaweb.google.com/jaypax.ginete/CiscoSkills2011

A shout out to the MSU-IIT Cisco staff: Sir Ernesto, Engr. Roy, and Mr. Ted.

I told you so + Nener! Nener!

In the beginning, I suffered through Netbeans3. True, it had a slick interface and was (even then as it is now) free but it was dirt slow and was a memory hog. And so I started looking for alternatives but something told me revisit this tiny IDE. I did and that was when Netbeans5.0 was released and I was pleased. That was like 5 years ago(give or take). I was faster, slimmer and overall better.

And so I took it and ran with it, I used it in all my projects and it moved on to my classes and I eventually got it to be the universal IDE for Capitol University's College of Computer Studies. They use it for almost anything except for Assembly programming. If there is stable plugin for Assembly programming in Netbeans can somebody tell me.

In other case, they want to use the "other" IDEs. The discussion ranged from "No IDE" (just edit.com and the command line), "Yes IDE" (JEdit, eclipse, myeclipse, JBuilder, etc..) to "To each his own IDE". Now I can safely say, on what they suggested, "They got nothing on Netbeans!".

The other guys seem to agree.

• Why should you use Netbeans
• Netbeans eclipses eclipse

So, to the people that has been my misfortune to meet who thinks that Netbeans sucked, Nener! Nener!