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Archive for August, 2008

25 Aug

A List Apart annual web survey is open

Available as of this morning at the A List Apart website, their annual survey of designers, information architects, web interaction designers, experience engineers and web codemonkeys got 33,000 responses last year, and guides much of their content at the web site as well as their awesome An Event Apart conferences. Provide your input! Share your [...]

25 Aug

Listening to… August 2008

Kent Beck spoke at O’Reilly Media’s RailConf on Test Driven Development, Patterns and Extreme Programming and I got to listen while working out last week. A long trip to a client gave me an excuse to listen to last week’s Technometria interview on Sxipper, and catching up with some 2006 archival Twit.tv FLOSS recordings featuring [...]

18 Aug

Notes from MonadLUG: David Berube, Ruby on Rails

Eleven members attended the August 14th meeting of the MonadLUG, Monadnock Linux User Group, held as usual on the second Thursday of the month at the SAU1 offices in Peterborough. David Berube was the main presenter.
We had the usual announcements (check upcoming events at http://www.gnhlug.org) and also some time for Q&A while waiting for the [...]

13 Aug

Listening to… Rich Miner, Google

At eComm 2008, Rich Miner presented a talk on “Openness and the Future of Mobile.” Rich works at Google and had a part in the Android project, but the talk is more general overview than product advertisement.
You can listen to the presentation here: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3679.html and view the slides on this site: http://www.slideshare.net/eComm2008/rich-miners-presentation-at-ecomm-2008/

08 Aug

DLSLUG Notes, 7-Aug-2008: James Fogg, Administrator-In-A-Box

Eighteen attendees braved the downpours to attend the August meeting of the Dartmouth – Lake Sunapee Linux User Group, held as usual on the Dartmouth campus on the first Thursday of the month. Coordinator Bill McGonigle noted that several past presenters had new books published:
Jeff Dwyer: Pro Web 2.0 Development with GWT
Barrie North: Joomla! A [...]

07 Aug

Tonight: DLSLUG, James Fogg, Administrator-In-A-Box

Co-ordinator Bill McGonigle announces that James Fogg will be presenting “Administrator In A Box,” a discussion on how to automate administration for large collections of machines in an enterprise, data center or server farm.

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