RasterWeb!

It’s been at least a week since I rambled on about BarCampMilwaukee, so it’s time for an update.

The BarCampMilwaukee.com site is growing, but honestly I think it’s getting a bit confusing. Hopefully it makes sense to people not familiar with BarCamps and/or wikis, but if we need to refactor, then we will…

We had a planning meeting last week, and got a tour of Bucketworks. It became clear that Bucketworks will be an awesome venue for BarCampMilwaukee. We certainly are not limited by space constraints. Our biggest concern about Bucketworks is the bandwidth. We still don’t have a definite solution, but we will consider asking people that are not leading a session to refrain from using excessive bandwidth if possible. (Meaning, don’t download Linux ISO’s Saturday afternoon!)

The next planning meeting is Sunday, August 27th, 2006. Stop by if you can and help us out. (Also listed at Upcoming.org) Share your ideas, and get a look at Bucketworks.

There is no doubt in the minds of the people planning it that this will be an amazing event, and probably Milwaukee’s first “un-conference” as well. Please spread the word about it, and make plans now to be there!

A long time ago (in a state far, far away…) Ekwipment was released by our pals at Friday Morning:

Ekwipment is a lightweight PHP/MySQL engine for adding job listings to a website.

And that is what it does… I was asked to test it out, and if you actually read the docs, the install is pretty easy. I did a bit of testing and it worked pretty well. Of course I am not putting job listings on my site, but if you are, take a look at it, and bug them to add the features you want or need…

The folks at Plazes finally launched Plazes for Mobile Phones, so life is good… (See: Plazes goes mobile)

Now us geeks that do not travel around with laptops using wifi on a daily basis, but do have a decent mobile phone can join in on the fun.

I’ve only been running it for a day now, so I can’t give much of a review yet, but it’s a fairly simple (and well done) Series 60 application. Installing and running it is easy as heck. (You don’t even need to install Python.)

Now if they can just make their badge available in valid XHTML, I might use it. :)

This morning I just couldn’t sleep… It’s not even 5 AM, so what do I do? Get up and start working… One problem…

After a bit of panic, I took care of things that I really needed to take care of on my own computer, like entering contact info into Address Book, and file management, and backups, etc. Hmmm, maybe I should disconnect at least once a week.

Ahh, things are back to normal, the connection has been restored. (Thought I still have that Javascript-powered Gallery to write…)