I just found out today that I’ll be in the UK next week.  London, as far as I know right now.  I’m looking to swing an extra day to myself there, which would be next Saturday, November 10.  If there are any area PHP or webdev groups going on, please give me a holler.  If [...]

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So I’m off to ConvergeSouth this year. I just realized I never posted the ’second half’ of my thoughts of last year’s meeting. I’ll try to do better this year!
I’ve signed up for a dinner with Anil Dash this year. And it looks like the honorable Jackson Fox (blog) will [...]

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This article from Wired indicates that some airport screeners are keeping notes on passengers, down to what you’re reading.  I don’t get the impression that it’s being done for every single passenger all the time, but it’s still frightening nonetheless.  I flew a lot in August, and anticipate flying a lot more in the coming [...]

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I test-drove some “mpg caps” last summer in an effort to determine whether they delivered any benefit. My results after one month of driving were pretty abysmal. Before the test, I tested my driving for a month and was getting around 23 mpg. During the test I got between 23 mpg and [...]

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I know I’m going to miss some people, but I wanted to take a moment to identify some interesting people I’ve met at codemash so far (in no particular order)

Joe Brinkman from dotnetnuke.com
Joe Craig from ideacore.com
Keith Elder from quickenloans.com (but I didn’t really *meet* him as I already knew him)
Cal Evans from Zend
Kevin Schroeder from [...]

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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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I’m here at PHP Appalachia and have learned some interesting things.
SimpleXML has recently added some support for adding children and attribtues directly to a document.  There may be little or no need to turn a document into a DOM object for many people’s purposes.
We talked a bit about RSS, and I brought up the awesome [...]

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I’m heading off to http://www.phpappalachia.org/ in the morning.  I’m looking forward to meeting with  some of the other attendees there, getting a bit revitalized about web development, PHP and other technologies, and hopefully getting out another episode of my web development podcast.  Apparently, it’s a 6.5 hour drive, but I can’t believe it’s really that [...]

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It looks like I’ll be attending the ConvergeSouth conference this year.  Some big names (”scoble” arguably being the biggest) will be there, and while it’s mostly just a one-day thing, I think it’ll be good to meet some new people in the area.  Greensboro isn’t quite ‘my area’, but hey, it’s close enough!  If anyone [...]

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I’m not sure if I’m just reading things too literally, or the TSA just can’t write intelligently.  From http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/new-items.shtm

Small amounts of Baby formula and breast milk if a baby or small child is traveling

Liquid prescription medicine with a name that matches the passenger’s ticket

Up to 8 oz. of liquid or gel low blood sugar treatment

Up to [...]

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