I got a taste for speaking last year, and submitted three more proposals this year for OSCON.  I submitted:

Groovy/Grails for PHP developers
Open Source Search overview
Open Source Risks

We’ll see how these are received.  I hear of people submitting 5-10 proposals and not getting any accepted, yet I submitted only one last year and was accepted.  I [...]

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I had a good conversation with Joe Fiorini about balancing his daily work in .NET with a passion and enthusiasm for Ruby on Rails.  Have a listen.
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I had a fun time recording this ‘open spaces’ meeting at Codemash last week.  This was led by Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke project, and joining us was Kevin Devine from the Euclid Public Library, Sara Ford from Codeplex @ Microsoft, Steven Harman from the Subtext project and - shoot - I do not have [...]

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I had considered submitting a codemash proposal about “Grails for PHP developers”.  I was counseled out of this by a certain someone as it was considered “too niche”.  I probably could have renamed it “Grails for non-Java developers”, and submitted it.  I think I will do that next year (or keep the PHP tag in [...]

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I had a chance to have a fun discussion with Dave Kroondyk, Adam Lumsden and Elizabeth Naramore about web development, ecommerce, project management, content management systems, shark dissection, PHP, Mozilla’s Weave project, general MIchigan awesomeness and some other topics. I was a bit closer to the mike than I should have been, but worse [...]

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I’m not going to write a whole lot about this, but Neal Ford’s main takeaway point was that the future of programming is dynamically typed languages running on virtual machines - things like JRuby running on the JVM or IronPython on .NET.  I’m putting those examples in his mouth, so to speak - he didn’t [...]

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again this year.  Leaving this afternoon.  It’s about a 9 hour drive, and I think I miscalculated a bit this year.  I was comparing flying to driving.  I’d initially estimated fuel cost at around $100.  I think it’s going to be more like $190 or so.  Flying would have been $240, but then there’s a [...]

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The codemash organizers have graciously donated a free pass to the upcoming Codemash conference to be given away to one lucky webdevradio.com listener.  To enter in to the drawing, listen to the codemash episode interview podcast on webdevradio with Jim Holmes, follow the instructions, and hope your name is drawn.
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Some area tech guys put together SocialCarolina.org, a site which maps what’s going on across the various social networks in the RTP/RDCH area.  At least, that’s what I think it does, and if it’s not doing that, it should :)  In any event, it’s a slick looking site with some definite potential.  Check it out!
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So, I’m here at the keynote. I may be able to post more throughout the day - it’s hard to pay attention and blog at the same time. Anyway, Elisa Camahort gave the keynote, talking about “changing your world with blogs”. Great stories about how blog technology is being used in numerous [...]

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