Ubuntu Open Week

Ubuntu Open Week

*(sorry for the rapid stream of blog posts, normal service will resume soon)* Recently I have been working on a series of IRC events to help get new people into our community. As such, next week (Mon 27th Nov 2006 – Sat 2nd Dec 2006) the Ubuntu community holds...
Practical PHP and MySQL, boo yah

Practical PHP and MySQL, boo yah

Well, my new book will be published any time now: This is my third book, but the first that I have written entirely myself. I am pretty pleased with it. A sample copy was here when I got back from San Francisco, and it looks schaweeeet. The book takes a different...
Video report of UDS

Video report of UDS

While at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) the week before last, I took part in an interview with Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier about the UDS, community and Jokosher. He has written up a report, complete with video interviews with myself, Matt Zimmerman, Murray...
Show me the way to go home

Show me the way to go home

Astute readers may have observed that this has been a quiet week for my blog. Well, there are a few reasons for this: * Firstly, we have just performed a server move, and I wanted to keep the databases synced. We have moved from two separate VMs to a dedicated box....
Video report of UDS

UDS nearly done

Well, the UDS finishes up tomorrow, and lots has been going on. Ready for some bullet points? READY? OK, you got it you filthy bullet point fiends: * The spec about unifying resources with Launchpad was very productive, and there was some discussion of it being rolled...