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It is our honor and privilege to announce that NullPointer.ph, our community of the best software developers in the country, has been selected as one of the semi-finalists for the 12th Philippine Web Awards under the category Community and Portal. We pride ourselves in providing high quality content to our community of software developers, while [...]

It’s been a little over a year since NullPointer.ph was established. Since then, we’ve already accumulated around 400 questions and more than 1000 answers from a community of around 400 users. Most of these questions tend to be specific about configuration, integration problems with tools, and best practices. There have also been some general questions about careers [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]