BurningbirdI’m in the middle of preparing my annual “Burningbird’s Bash of Etech” presentation. It will have the usual: laughs, tears, and passionate outrage and sad reflection in equal measure–not to mention, intense inspection of photographs with an accompanying “is the one with a shaved head, tattoos, bulgy chest, and eye liner a boy or a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to welcome you all to this, the third annual Burningbird Bash of ETech! This year’s show promises to be the best ever, especially considering that O’Reilly has, after all these years, finally broken the 10% rule for percentage of presenters that are female! Yes, indeedy, this year’s female participation is […]
I did want to point something out before I forgot, but IBM is putting its corporate blessing on PHP with, among other things, a new PHP Weblog site. I was reminded of it today with a link in Dave Winer’s weblog, which disappeared. (Hey, did I happen to mention Mark Pilgrim is back?) Anyway, folks on […]
This was an eye opener today: Microsoft has bought Groove Networks and hired Ray Ozzie as new Chief Technical Officer. Years ago when I lived in Boston, I had visited Groove and met the development team and Ray’s brother, Jack, when I was looking at doing a book on Groove for O’Reilly. I also interviewed with them, […]
When I post the Wordform files for download, I’ll provide details of the conversion from WordPress 1.5 to Wordform, but I thought I would provide an overview of the changes, upfront. First, my decision to make such extensive modifications to WordPress that I decided to fork the code isn’t an indication that I think WordPress […]