Category Archives: community
Explanation of Open Source (for the non-geek)
I gave this presentation to a local Portland Tech Requiting firm. They see more and more demand for applicants with skills in various open source technologies so they wanted a better understanding of its origins and current trends with an emphasis on PHP.
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Portland Oregon BarCamp
I went to the last organizing meeting for this. It looks to be quite a bit of fun.
Don’t forget to remind all of your techie friends that BarCamp iscoming to Portland on May 11-12! We will also be kicking off theregular DemoCamp event series during BarCamp to highlight tech startupactivity in the Portland area.
How [...]
PCC giving an AJAX class and one on Eclipse this term
The faculty asked me to pass this on…
Building Websites with AJAX
Bring richness and responsiveness to your website using themethods that make Google maps so much fun. Learn the techniques and tools of AJAX to bring speed and interactivity to your web presence. With Asynchronous JavaScript and XML youwill find a new way to impress your [...]
Back to school
For those of you who are into education for the knowlege (rather than the diploma), be sure to check out MIT Opencourseware. The couse selection is imense and the course materials are thourough and well organized. You will not get any ‘official’ credit for taking these courses but you cannot beat the price.
Aeronautics [...]
Succeeding As A Self Employed Web Developer
Here are the slides for another talk I gave to the pdxphp group. The topics include…
Types of web development business models
Are you ready to fire your boss?
Tools needed
A few gottcha’s to watch out for
To host, or not to host?
Legal stuff
Networking 101
Personal Marketing 101
Keeping sharp
What’s currently HOT! in web development.
Meet the PHP speakers of OSCON 2005: Quick talks and Q and A from the Experts
This gathering was a resounding success, I’d estimate we had 75 – 100 folks show up to in the audience and 15 speakers from the OSCON PHP clan took time out to come talk to us.
It was very informative and was a great opportunity to get answers on PHP from some of the core developers [...]
