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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‘broken’ is a bit of a stretch, but not working 100%.  I posted this to the collanos forum with my workaround.
Searched for this topic but couldn’t find anything on it.
We’re trying to get collanos running in a mixed environment.  2 XP, 1 mac, 1 Mandriva and 2 Ubuntu (7.10).
The XP and Mandriva work fine.  Mac [...]

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I put up a new webdevradio podcast last week, day after Thanksgiving (or was it the day before?  I forget now).  Anyway, I’ve turned on the comments - apparently there was a bug that was stopping it from working - and am inviting more feedback and audio comments from listeners.  The podcast is short this [...]

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Recording is really the word I was looking for, but I can’t think of a better one yet.  What I’m wondering here is why recording/storing the act of a clickthrough license acceptance isn’t something built in to Windows or OSX (on Linux I guess I can understand why, as the culture likely wouldn’t accept it).
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Ben Ramsey » Blog Archive » Microsoft Web Development Summit 2007
Ben’s part of a group of PHPers that have been invited to Microsoft to discuss PHP, MS, interoperability and other cool topics.  He’s meeting with some bigwigs like Scott Guthrie, which means MS is serious about this topic.  MS had a group of PHP [...]

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If you’re in the Raleigh area and are looking for a job in the web development market, give me a holler - I’ve had recruiters calling night and day.  AND they’re not all calling with the same position.  That used to happen once in a while - I’d have calls from three recruiters that were [...]

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Specifically of technical books.  I’ve got a small backlog of books I wanted reviewed for techbookreviews.com.  I thought I had more time than I did, but I don’t (isn’t that always how it goes?).  So, in the interests of time and getting other people besides myself involved, I’d like to invite some of you to [...]

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I’ve got this crazy idea to start posting book reviews. I’ve worked with Apress to interview some of their authors for my web development podcast series (webdevradio.com). However, our schedules don’t always mesh up, so in cases where I can’t interview someone (or haven’t yet) I will be putting up book reviews. [...]

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I had a quick interview with Prashant Deva from Placid Systems, talking about the upcoming Virtual Ant product.  Hopefully I will have this up on webdevradio.com in the next week.  It was about 15 minutes, with a couple fluff/testing minutes at the beginning  :)  Prashant was a pretty cool guy, and I wish we’d had [...]

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I’ve been digging more in to groovy and grails lately - done more than toe-dipping but nothing I want to shout about yet.  The more I tested the collections and looping - syntax like doc.entry.findAllBy() stuff - I remembered linq (or is it LINQ?).  This is data access technology that will be central to Microsoft’s [...]

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