This season for barcamp I was able to secure an Aruba networks wireless package: 1 mc200 controller and 3 ap125’s. This was AMPLE for barcamp.

So I’ve tried to give talks at every barcamp I go to. I don’t always have my talks prepared, but after 8 barcamps (in a month it will be 9) I’ve learned some things about getting up in front of people to talk.

I wrote up a rather gigantic blogpost about it - because metblogs is a far more popular site than my piddly one here.

If you want to know how to get up in front of people to give a good barcamp talk, head over yonder: http://sandiego.metblogs.com/2009/04/28/what-do-you-talk-about-at-barcamp/

This has really been rubbing me the wrong way as of late. People encroaching in on nomenclature they dont have the privilege to use.

• DEVELOPER: Sorry tuffguy, if all you write is html/css/php, you know nothing of mysql without using phpmyadmin, and you dont know any command line in linux/unix you’re not a developer. You write scripts. You’re a “webmaster” at best. Learn to live with it. All you windows guys writing in C#, my sympathy goes out to you. I’m not even sure where to put ASP or .NET. Both of those are scripting languages. Hell, I write perl, which is a scripting language. Have you ever heard me call myself a developer?


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I have no idea why this wasn’t done before.

I made a public google calendar with all the tech events going on in San Diego. I’d like all the community leaders in town to ping me so I can give them access, so that they can add their events and details to the calendar

Then everyone can subscribe to the calendar on their computers/phones/google/whatever and know all the details for every event in town at a glance.

If you’d like write access to this calendar, just drop me a note and I’ll add you! (You have to have a google account).