I was fortunate enough to catch the “Agile Testing Practices” talk by Jared Richardson last night at the trijug.  A couple colleagues wanted to attend, but couldn’t so I recorded it.  With Jared’s permission I’m linking to it here as an ogg file.  I cleaned it up with the ‘levelator’ program from gigavox, but it [...]

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I’ve not seen any signs we’re quite there yet, though searching for “ical/ics” and “rss enclosure” does bring up some interesting ideas. In short, what I am hoping to see is something like the following:
When I’m authoring a blog entry, I can add specific event information (date/time/location/etc) which gets added to the RSS feed [...]

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Alfred’s a friend from a way back in Michigan (well, perhaps just a few years ago) who’s also in to open source technology, and overall a sharp guy.  He interviewed me for a podcast he produces, and it’s finally ‘up’ for listening.  We chatted some time ago - September I think, so I’d nearly forgotten [...]

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About all I can *really* say is ‘wow!’. But to expand on that just a little, I’ll try to draft up a bit more of my experiences and some of the inspiring/interesting people I met.
The conference as a whole was great, but just a little short in my mind - I think we could [...]

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A friend of mine, George Hotelling, recently won the Pizzigati Prize for his involvement with citizenspeak.org. George has been a bit of a rabble rouser in the past, getting some press for trying to sell a purchased itunes track to someone else. He’s also one of the earlier RSS adopters that I [...]

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I’m attending the latest tripug.org meeting. Simon is giving a presentation about web services. I’ll try to have a better writeup after the presentation.
UDDI - no one here is using it. We’ve agreed that it’s sort of a more theoretical than practical benefit for most broad uses.
WSDL - Web [...]

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Andromodary - a constellation of stars which resemble a camel.
Antograph - a word that has the same meaning as another word, but is spelled the opposite of the original word.

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I think I’ll be attending the http://www.phpappalachia.org/ get-together next month.  I was surprised to see something would be held in NC.  While it’s not next door for me - about a 4 hour ride - I think it’ll be worth it to get together with some interesting PHP minds. 

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I’m working on a small project to allow posting to multiple blogs via the ’standard’ APIs published.  Something basic that seems missing is a way to programatically determine what type of authentication a service requires.  I’ve been able to hit local wordpress installations, an external blogger.com blog  and an external livejournal.com blog.  Although they all [...]

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Having a good time here at the raleigh blogger meetup. I’ve met the guy behind the Citation machine site, and he was telling us his experience about recently adding google adsense to his site. Apparently the results were quite impressive.
Another guy (Wayne) just recently put up a page looking for [...]

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