A Frog in the Valley

Extracted this little piece of wisdom from Techcrunch : Whatâ??s Hot at Demo :
just like blogging changed the world by letting non-technical users publish original content easily online, so too are widgets a harbinger of a new era when users are mixing and mashing dynamic data from all around the web…
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We agreed to split the work half and half to start, he will work on the invites, physical coordination (it’s his loft after all) and communication and I will get busy with conferences topics and suggestions, scheduling and sponsorship. The idea is then to split both of our work in two or more chunks, as we get more volunteer, in a process that reminds me of cell growth…We also agreed on folding the content of the specific barcamp wiki back to the original BarCamp.org site after the event, for archival and memoryh purposes and sharing with the larger barcamp community.

Post them here if you are interested in BarCamp Montreal 2006. Incomplete and funky ideas welcomed!

Following a few posts on wordpress design and lightweight PHP CMS (thanks for all the comments!), I bit the bullet and went forward with the idea for a real project (definition of a real project : a client, a budget and a deadline)!Here are my quciknotes for this work, from my del.icio.us wordpress tag history and a few other local bookmarks not yet posted to the cloud (this list is specific to setting up wordpress as a lightweight cms where blogging is *not* the primary usage scenario). This is post is in progress, but I needed to share this info my fellow developers on the project so I thought I would “CC:world” since it might be useful for others…Articles for CMS style wordpress installs Howto put a custom frontpage in wordpressFrom weblog to cms with wordpressWhy I choose wordpress as my CMSWP 2 WYSIWYG H1/H2/H3 supportUseful Plugins Askimet anti-spam - mandatory!WP-DB backup - better safe than sorryPermalink RedirectGoogle Sitemap GeneratorSlug-Trimmer FeedBurner pluginContact Form IIImproved include pageStatic front pageDemocracy AJAX pollWP-EmailFlickr RSSFavIcon HeadFirstRSSMy Link OrderCustom Templating developmentMinimalist themes (to get you started)How to Convert Any Web Template Into a WordPress Theme and Big HTML/CSS/PHP cheatsheet list at Lorelle on WordpressPNG background image : Theme cheat sheetWordpress CSS graphical reference and tutorial From XHTML/CSS to wordpressAdvanced / programming Wordpress API cheat sheetWordpress action hooksCustom article management with wordpressWorking with wordpress in other languages Wordpress in frenchMore to come and a link to the website when it’s officially launched (in a week or two).

These Ten Rules for Buying Apple Products are really good. I am shooping for a new laptop and it will most likely be a 13″ black MacBook…