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Towel Day 2010

Today is Towel Day, to honor Douglas Adams, head over and see what is happening in your area.

2010
05/25
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Ignite SLC 4 — Be There!

Ignite is an experience that everyone should have, at least once.

What is Ignite?

Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis, some of O’Reilly’s best, dreamed up an event where people could share their ideas over beer, and sent word out through their network.

The even is described best as:

Fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking, social, local, global—Ignite is all of these and more. It’s a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea—and the guts to get onstage and share it with their hometown crowd. Run by local volunteers who are connected through the global Ignite network, Ignite is a force for raising the collective IQ and building connections in each city.  And, via streaming and archived videos of local talks, local Ignites share all that knowledge and passion with the world.

Is it a bunch of nerds?

No! Normal everyday people have been known, and are encouraged, to attend the event. There is no basis for the information share at the event. At Ignite SLC 3 we had topics ranging from food co-ops, open source technology, surfing vs. snowboarding, politics, and even beards!

The format is fast paced and keep things exciting, in most cases you can even bring kids (probably best if they are 13+) update: The State Room is a 21+ club, sorry kids!

What about Zombies?

Glad you asked! Zombies are a growing concern for many, and maybe you were wondering if the Zombie Apocolypse will have an impact on your dating regiment? Guess what, there is an Ignite presentation for that!

Jason Vance will be presenting “15 things to remember when dating in a post Apocalyptic Zombie Environment” — I personally am looking forward to this presentation!

Is it all about zombies?

Don’t appreciate zombies? That is ok, it will only be for 5 minutes and then you can move on to other great topics including:

  • Deb Henry – Does Widening Roads Cause Congestion?
  • Kellen McAffee – How to tell your friends that you’ve seen a sasquatch.
  • DJ Waldow - Dude

and one that look particularly awesome:

  • Matthias Shapiro and Jason Alderman – Mobile App Dev RAP BATTLE

because geeks and rap go hand-in-hand!

Cost?

As with most of the awesome things in this world there is NO COST!! My list of awesome things includes, but is not limited to:

  • Linux
  • Free Money
  • Firefox
  • Free Toys
  • Pidgin
  • Free Time
  • Irssi
  • Free Tibet!

I hope to see you all there!

2010
01/22
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Let’s Get Open!

Being that it is Monday and I am really not feeling it today I thought I would dig up what is happening around the nets and share with you.

Chrome OS Zero

Looks like Hexxeh has been hard at work getting a cleaned up version of Chrome OS called Chrome OS Zero out to the masses. Reading through the Wiki and FAQ things look pretty nice and clean. I may take a stab at playing with this in the next week or so. Thanks Hexxeh!

Droids

Tim at CTRL-ALT-DEL Comic has this silly for us today:

Thanks Tim!

Nexus One

We all know about Google’s latest move in the Android field by now, right? Well it looks like the Nexus One is selling well, and people are having problems with the 3G service that T-mobile is offering on the Nexus One. Being a T-mobile customer myself I can tell you the problems are not limited to the Nexus One. My phone refused to stay on 3G this weekend too, oh well.

PHP

References

Johannes Schluter discusses how references in PHP work, and suggests that maybe we should not use them anymore.

Last year I spoke at eight conferences and attended a few more multiple times at most of them I found myself in discussions about references and PHP as many users seem to have wrong understandings about them. Before going to deep into the subject let’s start with a quick reminder what references are and clear some confusion about objects which are “passed by reference.”

Patterns

Giorgio Sironi has two new blog posts about patterns in PHP. The first is on Abstract Factory patterns:

The major problem that creational patterns try to solve is that objects need collaborators: we often pass them in the constructor of a Client class to aid decoupling, as every class should know only what it really needs to get its job done. With the verb know I mean that they just know that the other part exist at all.

The second is on Builder patterns:

The Builder pattern’s intent is to encapsulate the details (the new operators and other wiring) of the object creation process under a common interface. Though, the Builder can actually change the internal representation of an object, as it is not a black box.

Both blog posts were great reads, and I suggest all my UPHPU buddies hit them up.

2010
01/11
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Text Message from: Mom

My mother sent me a txt msg today:

Subject: None

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Message: Duh

2009
11/30
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Black Friday saved by Kevin Smith

If you know me well, then you know I love Kevin Smith movies. If ever you wanted to know why, this is why, because Kevin Smith is a master of controlling his audience and giving them exactly what they want. Behold, Kevin talks about Twilight:

2009
11/27
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