Yesterday the 1st BarCampOrlando was held. It went extremely well.
I am honestly very impressed that they were able to have as many talks, just about non-stop from 1 PM - 8:30 PM. My biggest regret is not doing a demo.
Talks I enjoyed
Introduction to Facebook
Introduction to Agile
Cow orking
I’m a bit frustrated I was stuck trying to get the live Flickr feed to work and missed Elliot’s talk.
I recently joined the Ubuntu Florida LoCo team and it was cool to meet a few people from the team there. Also the install fest was cool, not a ton of participants but those who did try it out booted up fine. Especially impressive is that it booted up on a Macbook Pro.
Today I spent a lot of time trying to configure the new (dv) base server. I must say changing Linux environments like this throws off my command line flow. It only took me a few hours to get yum installed. Couldn’t get bzr installed at all. I did get Subversion installed, but didn’t actually do anything with it. I still need to figure out if upgrading Python to v2.4 will take me out of the UOP.
David Seah has a great article on how to configure the (dv) for WordPress, and I’m gonna use it as a guide post for configuring this (dv) for ExpressionEngine. Thanks Dave!
To-do
Python 2.4
Kill SMPT connections
Configure MySQL
Configure PHP
Learn more about yum
GET MY CAR FIXED!
I have a conference call with China on my Thursday morning. Need to practice some phrases…
I know I’m going, looking forward to my 1st conference of this type. Especially I think I will enjoy the DIY attitude of it. What’s going to be talked about? I’ve heard so far in discussion that Ruby, .Net, PHP, Ubuntu (and Linux in general), Launchpad, MySQL, and a host of other topics are all possible. Oh and it’s FREE! But you better watch the website since registration starts soon.
When is this thing? On Sunday, September 23rd, from 1 PM to 10 PM at Taste in the College Park area of Olrando FL.
What is it all about? Watch the video to learn more, also check out the BarCampOrlando website for more info.
I just installed AptOnCD for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I’m hoping that making this CD after I finished getting things setup will help a little bit with the massive amount of time involved in setting up a fresh install of Ubuntu.
Also found a nice guifications theme for Pidgin. It uses the Pidgin character from the website and has a text box for him.
I’m making this post with Drivel so I’m not really going through the effort to put links in it. I’m not sure how it will work out but I have a lot of laundry to do and I’m afraid that if I do not just go ahead and make the post with out links I’ll get all distracted from laundry trying to figure out the right way to do it. I’m also very curious to see how this post interacts with my plugins. Like the footnotes one for example. ((Lets see))
Today I am writing my first Expression Engine Template. So far I can tell it’s not that bad once you get used to it. It is semi-frustrating to feel like people make things more complicated than they need to by using template systems. But I am really in no position to evaluate it’s effectiveness yet.
So launch is um, we don’t know when. The goal is though to have the entire site re-written in a WCM ((Web Content Manager)) of some or other type. Hence the Expression Engine template.
In other things Elliot helped me configure postfix for the first time. That was pretty easy. I’ve also done a few mysqldump’s and imports. It feels really good to be able to dump a site and then import it on another server and actually have it appear magically. I feel like I’ve been missing out by being too lazy to learn.
Elliot also showed my this amazing commenting setup. I really like the way it looks on the Django Book site. ((I linked to a page where you could see it.)) So that makes me really wish I was smarter. That JS stuff seems pretty light weight. I could be wrong. That is really slick stuff regardless. I’m so impressed it loads about 50 million times faster than a lightbox and is way more useful. I wonder if there is a way to cache every light box image on a page in the background so that it loads faster. That makes me wish I was smarter also. I might be able to figure it out.
