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New web host, platform, bugs, features and meta

By Randell | Published: June 21, 2010
Last week, we migrated our site to a new web host. It took about an hour, which was longer than what we expected, because we encountered bugs that came with the latest OSQA updates.  But the good news is that we didn’t lose any data in the process. You still have your questions, answers, reputation [...]
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Migration day

By Randell | Published: June 2, 2010
We announced in our previous post that we are migrating the site to a different platform and web host. We have evaluated several question and answer platforms including OSQA, Shapado, Askbot, and Reddit’s platform. Among those platforms, we chose OSQA and it will be hosted under WebFaction. OSQA has the closest look and feel to Stack Exchange. [...]
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We’re moving!

By Randell | Published: April 15, 2010
As you may have already read from the recent Stack Exchange blog, there has been a couple changes to the platform, which will directly affect NullPointer.ph. The most important of which is under Q: What happens with existing Stack Exchange sites? which says Existing Stack Exchange sites will be kept open, under existing rules, for at [...]
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Introducing the Null Pointer Job Board

By Randell | Published: January 20, 2010
In our previous blog post, we mentioned that we’re cooking things up for 2010.  So we’re kick-starting the year off with something awesome.  Today, we introduce to you the Null Pointer Job Board. We know that the idea of this niche job board, focusing on programmers and developers, is not our own.  If you’ve been spending [...]
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Rounding up the sheep

By Randell | Published: January 10, 2010
During the last quarter of 2009, we brought you Null Pointer.  We watched the spike on the number of visitors during the first few weeks and watched those numbers stabilize during the first month.  We also saw one user, an active member of PinoyJUG,  get the first ever Null Pointer Enlightened Badge! Our community is still [...]
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Hello world!

By Randell | Published: November 3, 2009
Welcome to the official NullPointer.ph blog! First of all, the NullPointer.ph team would like to thank all the users who have visited and registered with the site.  We are assuming that most of the users are members of our local developer mailing-list, which we shamelessly spammed with our invitation.  For that, we apologize.  But hey, all [...]
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