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BarCamp-safe Skordalia
When I started thinking about what to cook for BarCamp Vancouver, I had a fairly simple set of criteria - the food needed to be yummy, cheap to make, easy to eat, simple to serve, friendly to various dietary restrictions and conversation-friendly.
Enter Skordalia, the classic Greek garlic spread. The problem with Skordalia is that it [...]
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Borrowing Great Ideas from the Sikhs: Food for BarCamp Vancouver
My contribution for the first BarCamp Vancouver was a selection of foodstuffs chosen and prepared so as to be friendly for vegans, Muslims eating Halal, Jews following Kashrut, Rastafarians eating Ital, people with food allergies and others with similar constraints.
I was tickled at how positive the reactions were at BarCamp - in particular, Aaron Pettigrew's [...]
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PHP Appalachia
Ben Ramsey wrote to remind me to blog about the upcoming PHP Appalachia event. Actually, he wrote quite some time ago. Thankfully, there still seem to be spots open. If you are in the area, go check it out.
Tags: PHP, Uncategorized, wiki, Wikipedia
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Staying focused (even with lots of interruptions)
A few months ago, while at the eZ systems summer conference, I was showing my focus deck to my friends Tony Wood and James Eichhorn. I promised to blog about it, but have taken a very long time to get to it. So, here's the deal: I have a simple and effective trick for keeping [...]
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Dear Travelocity, Study WestJet
After the recent fiasco with Travelocity, I called WestJet to straighten things out. Amazing. A real person (named Melissa) immediately answered the WestJet 1-800 number. She then answered all of my questions, confirmed my reservation and emailed out an itinerary. When I hung up, my phone time read, "03:12" and the email itinerary was already [...]
Travelocity Overrun by Gremlins
http://travelocity.ca has always been a bit of a warty, grumpy service. If you visit it using platforms other than the Windows + IE, it grumbles, threatening to lose your reservation, displaying ugly gaffs in its styling or, in rare instances, randomly serving up sessions other than your own.
For the most part, the travelocity.ca's flaws [...]
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catcloud WordPress Plugin v0.3
Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
I just updated the catcloud plugin for WordPress.
The new version includes an additional configuration setting to optionally limit the display of categories to an arbitrary amount - ie. show only the top 25 categories.
Grab the [...]
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Extremadura Switching to Free Software
Interesting news via Rodrigo Moya:
All the computers of the Junta of Extremadura (goverment state of Spain) will be running free software within a year. This project makes the Regional Government the first Public Administration to adopt standards upheld by international organizations, that favour 'technological innovation and the reduction of user dependency.
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Tags: Free Software, Standards, Uncategorized
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BarCamp Vancouver is full (but there is a waiting list)
Roland Tanglao writes:
BarCamp Vancouver is officially full. If you have signed up and find out you can't go, then please remove your name from the BarCamp Vancouver attendee list.
If you are on the wait list, don't despair, being a free conference with a suggested $20 donation, there's always a few people who don't show up.
If [...]
Don't get pwn3d: Why Professionalism Matters In Community Discussions
Some years ago (as penance for working at MySQL during some temporary corporate brain-damage about Free Software licensing) I began volunteering at the Free Software Foundation.
For the most part, I have spent my time providing support on Free Software licensing questions for the FSF Compliance Lab and helping out on the GPL v3 effort.
While both [...]