Category Archives: community
Winter Coders Social 2008
This year’s Winter Coders Social is set to go. Come join the party this Tuesday, December 9th at Cubespace.
Details: http://calagator.org/events/1250456151
Speaking at this years PHPWorks in Atlanta
Very excited that the talk I submitted to php|works was accepted. I’ll be speaking at the Atlanta conference on my continuing work with combining XMPP and SMS with existing web API’s
Shizzow’s public announcment
One of my side projects has turned into a full blown startup. Shizzow.com will be officially announced at today’s Lunch 2.0 at cube space. It’s been a pleasure working with the other fine folks on this project and I’m looking forward to the future.Thanks to Silicon Florist for all the press
Accessing Trimet Arrival Times with SMS
I discovered the Portland Trimet API about a month ago and was very inspired by the amount of real-time information available and the ease of accessing it through their web service. One feature of the service is that for a given stop id you can get the arrival times for the buses/trains for [...]
Startupalooza
Exciting event coming up at the end of March. Startupalooza is gaining steam, building quite the list of product demo’s (including Fyreball, my current employer). The event designed to be Those who have walked the path, sharing their knowledge and experiences with those interested in beginning startups. This is not a typical startup event [...]
Ignite Portland 2
Looks much bigger (550+ registered) and better this go around. I went to Ignite 1 and had an excellent time. Can’t wait to see how it goes this time.
Happening Feb 5, 2008 : doors open at 5:15pm at the Bagdad.
Ignite Portland home page
register here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/390164/
“Portland On Fire” Profiling Local Individuals
Portland On Fire is a site launched by Raven Zachary on the first day of 2008. It’s goal is to give a quick bio of local folks, showing what they’ve done and what they are currently up to. It is starting with people in the tech and arts sector but the hope is that it [...]
OSCON 2007 Recap
Just finished up my 2007 ‘OSCON Experience‘ I attended the conference on Tuesday and Wednesday and we had our PDXPHP both in the exhibit hall as last year, but in addition I helped to organize the OSCamp room.
Spent most of my time in the exhibit hall this year. I only made it to one OSCON [...]
360Flex Comming to Seattle
Flex seems to be on fire as of late. I really like the theme behind the efforts over at 360Conferences.
For more info on the event, visit www.360flex.com
“The gist is, we’re bringing together the best Flex has to offer, in a community setting where developers can hang out, share ideas, share problems, in general come [...]
OSCamp 2007
I sort of just fell into organizing the camp this year but it is really starting to shape up. Didn’t take too much effort and O’Reilly was extremely easy to work with. They were nice enough to kick in for grub, projector rental, and brainstorm / collaboration type office supplies (and those are [...]
