The Age of Literate Machines: A Visionary Look at Free Software
About twenty years ago, Mr. Hughes (my excellent grade eight and nine science teacher) showed my class a television series called "Connections." The series, written and hosted by British wit and science historian James Burke, focused on how sets of seemingly disparate events came together to shape the modern world. Connections was (and is) [...]
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Random bits of info for MySQL UC attendees
Dear MySQL User Conference Attendees,
The resources I mentioned to some or many of you are:
The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - the classic MIT introductory computer science course textbook (and supporting video lectures are here.)
PHP Vikinger - a PHP-focused unconference held in Norway on June 24 and 25th.
GPL v3 site - make sure to [...]
Steal This PHP Vikinger Announcement
The PHP Vikinger is a community-driven PHP event that will be held in Skien, Norway from June 24th to 25th. Like the famous Foo Camp and Bar Camp, PHP Vikinger is driven by its attendees. The people who come choose and present the sessions at the event.
Attendance is by a mix of invitation and registration. [...]
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PHP Vikinger Invitations Emailed
I just sent out the invitations for the PHP Vikinger event. My method for choosing who to invite was pretty simple - I chose people listed in the the PHP and PEAR credits who I had written personal email to in the last few years.
Nepotistic? "Nay", say I, "Nepotastic!" I know that the people I [...]
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PHP Vikinger site online
After far too long, a quick-and-dirty site for the PHP Vikinger event is online.
What are you waiting for? Go visit http://phpvikinger.org (and, yes, it will redirect to a Backpack URL - that is intentional :)
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PHP Vikinger
eZ publish lives and dies by PHP. When all is right in the PHP world, it makes our lives a lot easier at eZ systems.
Given that PHP doesn't cost a thing and we only employee a few PHP hackers, we wanted to show our gratitude to the PHP community for its awesome work over the [...]
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