Hello, I am Rougin Gutib.

I'm a software architect and engineer from the Philippines, currently having a great interest in creating packages or projects in PHP and Typescript.

My work life on a thumb drive

14 February 2019

Few months ago I managed to post a guide on how to setup Apache and PHP in a hard and portable way. After having fun doing that, I decided to make a portable version of my other things regarding software...

New Year, Same Me

16 January 2019

It is now the year 2019 and this will be the month that most of the people will post something like "Page x of 365", or "New Year, New Me" scattered across social media. While it's...

Christmas Holidays

14 December 2018

This is now the last month for the year 2018 and the Christmas holidays. The month where some of the lucky people will receive their salary bonuses and will receive gifts from their special people. This...

Expressing Staticka

07 November 2018

A few months ago I nearly forgot that I have a blog page. The main reasons are either I'm just bad at writing paragraphs or just being focused on another project. To update this site, I will use this opportunity...

Conceiving Windstorm

12 October 2018

After publishing Pilipinews to the public in the last month, I worked again on how to improve the news aggregation as well as how to minimize the usage of its resources. Given that the application is hosted...

Putting Pilipinews on Github

30 September 2018

While scrolling through my Facebook feed around 2016, I noticed that more people are only relying on the headlines that news outlets posted in their own official Facebook pages. Even though some people...

Migrating from Angular to Staticka

20 July 2018

Since the inception of this website, this was built on Jekyll since it is the starting platform for Github Pages. Then I migrated it to Angular 1 with the hopes of learning new techniques and new features...

Normalizing Credo and Wildfire

06 June 2018

While working in my open-source projects during my spare time, I occurred some epiphanies for both Credo and Wildfire. Both are PHP libraries that supplement the Codeigniter framework, which I used as...

A portable Apache HTTP for Windows

08 May 2018

If you are currently using WAMP or XAMPP as your local development environment, you might think this post doesn't make sense since it is already available and ready to be used. Thinking that you don't...

Working in a Government Agency

16 April 2018

I've been working in a government agency from the past months and it's been a wild ride. To work far from home, from friends, from family, and really far from the comfort zone. But I just use the mindset...

Years After Graduation

28 March 2018

It's March again. Some students in this month are marching to their graduation recitals. Waiting in a single line, shake hands with the head of the school, receiving their diploma (even though the original...

Breaking Down Zapheus

20 February 2018

It's been the start of 2018 and so far I am optimistic about it. After all of the drinking and eating tons of food during Christmas and New Year, I'm back now in doing the daily work routine (software...

Hello World

14 January 2018

This seems to be my very first entry in writing a blog post. I'm currently setting this website as a starting point for learning more about Angular 1 and how to generate a static site using the said framework....