On Thursday I’ll be doing a presentation on Subversion and Trac at the Sydney PHP Group. It will be “how to” focused so people can leave with enough knowledge to start using these tools. If you plan to attend then email rsvp@sydphp.org
July, 2007
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Subversion and Trac presentation
Monday, July 30th, 2007BarCampSydney 2 is coming
Friday, July 27th, 2007Earlier this year 200 people attended the first BarCampSydney held at UTS. If you’re not familiar with BarCamp it’s an ad-hoc gathering (unconference) for people to share and learn in an open environment. Think of all those conferences you’ve attend and how often the best bits don’t happen during sessions but when people get together between sessions. That’s BarCamp 
At BCS we promised to organise another one later this year. Planning for BarCampSydney 2 is now well under way. If you’re interested in going to BCS2 then follow the BarCampSydney – Signup link and add your name so we can email you with more info. There’s also a Facebook group called BarCampSydney.
Simpsonize Me
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Burger King in the US have created Simpsonize Me for the new Simpson’s movie. Upload your photo and it will turn you into a Simpson’s character. You’ll need to be patient as it’s pretty slow and occasionally down due to high traffic.
Warnings:
- I had to use Windows to get the site to work
- It would not accept any .au address I entered
- I had to screen capture the result as save/export didn’t work
Naming a business
Monday, July 9th, 2007At the end of OSDC last year I decided it was the right time to kick start my business and get out of cubeville. I’ve owned a company for many years now but it hasn’t done much since I stopped contracting. To get out of cubeville was going to require a new focus, new business plan, new customers and a new name.
While most people can get away with naming a company after themselves it’s a little harder when your name is Buggy. Can you imagine an IT company called Buggysoft, Buggy Consulting , Buggy Labs or Buggy Training? After tossing up names for months the company was renamed to Zoombug two weeks ago.
So what does Zoombug do? We provide LAMP consulting/development and PHP training. During the next six months the focus will be on growing the client base and releasing more code as open source.
Go PHP 5
Friday, July 6th, 2007Despite being released 3 years ago PHP 5 has struggled to gain market share. It’s been a vicious cycle of:
- Hosting companies holding off because a few applications still require PHP 4
- Applications continuing to support PHP 4 rather than risk loosing market share
- Hosting companies feeling no pressure to upgrade because applications still support PHP 4
Today I came across GoPHP5. The group is made up of projects and hosting companies pushing to make PHP 5.2 the minimum version by February 2008. Combined with the PHP Group ending support for PHP 4 at the end of this year I’m hopeful that we’ll soon be able to say goodbye to PHP 4.
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