Three days of Ajax development and nerdery. Featuring keynotes by Brad Adams of Microsoft and JSON creator Douglas Crockford. Session speakers include FutureText founder Ajit Jaokar, Steve Rubel, Yahoo! front-end guru Eric Miraglia, and web developer / educator Molly Holzschlag. When: September 24 – 26, 2007 Where: Santa Clara, CA (a more specific locale is [...]
[2 Apr 2007]
ApacheCon US will be in Atlanta from November 12 – 16, 2007 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza. As of April 27, the conference is seeking papers. Topics include: Apache HTTP server Apache Software Foundation projects and incubated projects such as Jakarta, SpamAssassin and Roller Dynamic content and scripting, including Python and PHP Security and e-commerce [...]
[29 Mar 2007]
I am too friggin lazy to blog SXSW. Instead, I will post URLs that I hear about. Tails Export: An extension for Showing and Exporting Microformats. Operator: A microformats tool for Firefox. More here. Mike’s Musings: Microformats are in there somewhere. Open Dildonics: Open source teledildonics. Slashdong: Teledildonics and other sex gadgetry. Probably not safe [...]
[12 Mar 2007]
Ahh, four glorious days of geek conversations, networking and hanging out with my conference crew. Here are some of the sessions I’m planning to attend as of right now. But that could change depending on my mood and/or need for a nap. Thank goodness I’m not on any panels this year. I’ll be able to [...]
[9 Mar 2007]
Spend your Valentine’s day watching hot naked chicks (and a couple of dudes). The PinkEye Indie Queer Movie Salon presents two independent queer porn / erotica movies for your viewing pleasure. They’re screening the director’s cut of Teri Rice’s The Kindling Point (lesbian, bondage and domination), which was filmed in Atlanta in the early 1990s. [...]
[12 Feb 2007]
This is one of the more popular sessions of the AiMA calendar: Search Engine Marketing. Panelists will discuss what works, what doesn’t, and what’s changing in the world of search engine marketing and optimization. No word just yet on who is speaking, but AiMA is usually pretty good at picking first-rate speakers. Plus they serve [...]
[3 Feb 2007]
The @media conference has grown from being a U. K. thing to a world-wide thing. This year, they’re doing three sessions in San Francisco, Hong Kong and in the conference’s hometown of London. The S. F. conference will include presentations by Tantek Çelik, Dan Cederholm, Jesse James Garrett, Molly Holzschlag, and Cameron Moll (check out [...]
[18 Jan 2007]
A PodCamp unconference will be held in Atlanta. No brand-name speakers and in crowd folks. Just a bunch of enthusiastic podcasters and bloggers leading how-to sessions, discussions and such. Register by adding your name to the PodCamp Atlanta registration wiki page. Event details When: Friday, March 16 through Sunday, March 18, 2007 Where: Emory University [...]
[4 Jan 2007]
Ruby Central and O’Reilly have teamed up for RailsConf 2007, a conference all about the Ruby on Rails framework. It promises to offer sessions for beginners through experts, with lots of networking opportunities mixed in. At this point, the conference is accepting proposals (deadline: November 27, 2006). I’ll update this post when more details are [...]
[14 Nov 2006]
Details for php|tek are finally up. Speakers include PHP heavyweights Wez Furlong, Ilia Alshanetsk, and John Coggeshall. Jay Pipes of MySQL is also set to present. Topics for talks include security, enhancing MySQL performance, debugging tools and design patterns. Sounds like a winner to me. The conference is, however, accepting papers through November 20, 2006. [...]
[8 Nov 2006]