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WordCamp 2008 Schedules

Posted in open source, wordpress by eric a. on April 30th, 2008

Matt Mullenweg announced new WordCamp dates, including WordCamp San Francisco 2008, which is set for Saturday August 16th at the Mission Bay Conference Center.

There’s a new listing of upcoming WordCamps at WordCamp Central.

One that’s not listed is WordCamp Portland, which is taking place this Sunday, May 4th during BarCamp Portland.

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Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Released

Posted in linux, open source by eric a. on April 24th, 2008

Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (codenamed ‘Hardy Heron’) was released today and is available for download here.

If you don’t have broadband, you can also request free CDs.

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Linux Fest Northwest 2008

Posted in linux, open source by eric a. on April 21st, 2008

Linux Fest Northwest 2008 is April 26 & 27 at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington!

I had a great time last year and even won a Silicon Mechanics server.

I’ll be making the geek pilgrimage again this year and hope to see you there. :)

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) LTS

Posted in linux, open source by eric a. on April 21st, 2008

Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) LTS will be formally released on April 24, 2008 and I'm excited.

Aside from some of the new and updated features, I'm thrilled that it's a Long Term Support release, which means Canonical will support it for 3 years on desktops and 5 years on servers.

Since the quality of Linux distributions has increased tremendously over the last few years, I've been growing out of my distro hopping tendencies and want a release that I can stick with for a long time. For now, Ubuntu is it.

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CSS off, CSS on

Posted in web design by eric a. on April 10th, 2008
Well, another CSS Naked Day is over and I'm happy to have participated. It's a wonderful exercise, seeing plain jane markup without the benefit of CSS styling. It illustrates:
  1. the power of CSS, and
  2. how clean, non-presentational xhtml markup and logical document structure can make a site usable even without the cheery look & feel
As part of site testing, I strip away stylesheets to see what the content looks like to search engines and other devices that don't support CSS.

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