Mozilla Foundation Report for 2008 Week 5
This is my Mozilla Foundation report for February 3rd to February 9th, 2008. See the weblogs of David Boswell, Frank Hecker and Gerv Markham for additional reports.
Much of this week was focused on participating in SCALE 6x, as well as traveling to and from the event, and preparing for other events.
Projects for the Week
Events
SCALE 6x: [...]
SCALE 6x: Getting There
If you read my post on getting the most out of conference attendance, you know that I'm trying to reduce the environmental costs associated with my conference attendance. I even made a plan. As with most plans, real life is a bit different. Here's how I've done:
Taxi from home to YVR (I would have taken [...]
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$gut–
In the mid-ninties, I went from a single, heartsick, nervous and twitchy young geek who ran about 30 minutes a day (and that weighted in at about 70 kilos) to a much happier and well-loved geek who spent a lot more time snuggling on the couch.
I also went from cooking to live to cooking for [...]
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php|works 2006: General Followup
php/db|works ended yesterday in the early afternoon after the most merciful (read brief) closing keynote I have attended (Thanks Marco!) Congratulations to Marco, Sean, Arbi and crew for running a nice community-centric event! It was small, but it was also easy to have nice conversations with many of the attendees and the atmosphere was [...]
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OSCON Highlight: Rasmus' "How to Make Money with PHP" session
Rasmus is presenting his "How to Make Money with PHP" session for the Portland PHP User group, OSCON attendees and OSCAMP attendees. This session is one of my favorite Rasmus talks - the concepts that he teaches are key to helping PHP developers move from being frustrated novices to being happy and productive PHP hackers.
Some [...]
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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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People-watching
One can see so many interesting people just by sitting for a few minutes
in an airport. A constant stream of the busy, the tired, the young and the
old, all wearing every color of skin and type of garb. Today in
particular was interesting for a few different people.
The first was a quixotically beautiful older man who [...]
PHP Con West
This year's PHP Con West is happening from October 21st to 24th in Santa Clara, California. The usual suspects will be speaking - with the exception of Rasmus. I have a session on the first day of the conference (after the code sprint and tutorial days) titled Opening the Toybox: A Hands-on Overview of MySQL's [...]
Conférence PHP Québec 2003
PHP Québec has organized an impressive community event for PHP that runs from March 20th to 21st. Everyone's favorite PHP action heros (Andrei, Dams, Dan, Derick, Ilia, Jan, Rasmus and Zeev) will be there. Kudos to Dams and his cohorts for working so hard to organizing the event.
I will be presenting a 1.5 hour session [...]
A nice lazy saturday afternoon
Just kicking back on the couch, listening to Tool and painstakingly working my way through the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. As David, Gavin, Rasmus and Sterling have all commented, it is about time that I become a real programmer. :)
So far, the book is amazingly engaging, though a rather dense read. It has [...]