Archive for Category: "Live Blog"

Conferences, Meetups, and LANs Oh My!

As I stated earlier, I have been neglectful due to real work as well as organizing the Beginner’s track for WordCamp Boston.  Check out the new site and don’t forget to register before December 15th to get the reduced price. Tonight, I’ll be attending MegaTweetup at Microsoft NERD in Cambridge.  This is a huge social [...]

Neglectful :-(

Yes, I’ve been a neglectful writer.  There is no excuse other than my other site is just as time consuming. In other news, I am trying to help organize the first ever WordCamp Boston.  It will be a day full of WordPress issues, support, topics, CMS, SEO and hopefully I’ll be able to give a [...]

Live Blog: Boston Media Makers

We are here at Doyle’s Cafe and you can follow us LIVE here! I will be taking notes as best as I can… First time here so please bear with me!

Live Blog: "Extending WordPress with (Web)Hooks"

Mitcho will be presenting this at 7pm… stay tuned while we eats some pizza! links to slides on SlideShare (to follow)… SpeakerRate (see link on meetup) Intro:  Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) Focus on wordpress.org version WordPress on modifying its own behavior:  parse URL -> content from database -> display (but its not that [...]

Live Demo of Thesis for WordPress (Beginner's Level)

Click to Play Here, I demo the theme Thesis for WordPress. Links to follow.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t use Viddler because the video size was too big… I’ll try and and timestamps and links after it finishes encoding!

The Start of a New Beginning

Or something like that… I think the title is a little redundant but oh well.  WELCOME!  You’ve come to the place where I will spew out science “stuff” and technical details of the latest and greatest camera as well as cooking tips, recipes and pictures of food.  I will try and keep everything separate, but [...]

Alex Tanchoco: Experiences with Elgg

Liveblog in progress: Lions Club:  improves collaboration within district to enhance sense of community with document sharing, calendars for events, photos, blogs and to collaborate Green Elgg:  $0 for everything… open source community, learning curve with an active community and support, free plugins and widgets Prototype server platform:  atom processor, with no fan and low [...]

Building FuseFly – Brett Profitt

Home schooled based community “social network connecting homeschoolers around the world that provides a secure environment for teens with areas for both sutdents and parents” Each student account is created and must be tied to a guardian/parent account.  “Walled garden” approach to content with a word list censor plugin and moderator system. Reach feature parity [...]

Elgg: History about and the future

Started in 2004 as open source and Elgg v0.1 was released March 2005 (alpha?) After hitting conference circuit (Oct 2005) people reacted:  “Blogging will never be mainstream” and “This is a fad and you are just jumping on the bandwagon”… maybe it was too early? Facebook rise brought Elgg rise.  Rising adoption within education and [...]