Microsoft Web Developer Summit 2009 Recap
Submitted by Keith Casey on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 15:36Last week I had the opportunity to visit a little company in Redmond and hear about what they're doing in the PHP world, what they're doing in Open Source, and generally share some feedback. This was my seond year being invited but my first year to attend.
The Good
First of all, the entire event was well-run and executed. OSS Dev Strategy Lead Karri Dunn and the event manager Tanya Young both did a fantastic job of putting the whole thing together and lining up numerous great presenters and events in a great location. The Developer and Platform Evangelists (DPE in MSese) - namely Peter Laudati, Will Coleman, and Josh Holmes - were great hosts and kept things moving.
WordCampNYC 2009 Recap
Submitted by Keith Casey on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 05:25This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend WordCamp NYC 2009. Overall, it was a blast but there are some specific sessions and people I'd like to point out as particular stand outs.
First, Raphael Mudge - a local DCian - talked about his tool After the Deadline. It's a plugin that ties into TinyMCE to perform in-context spelling and grammar checking. I haven't had a chance to look at it in more than passing, but it looks impressive. And for some reason, I ended up on his "The 10 People you Meet" post. It's probably because I asked him to speak at DCPHP next month.
WordCampNYC 2009
Submitted by Keith Casey on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:45
We've been keeping it pretty quiet so far, but with this latest announcement, it's time to start talking:
At present, I am leading up the interoperability & cross-platform efforts within web2project.
While this doesn't seem like much to many of our users - after all, we support Apache and Mysql very well - it fits with our vision of the system. We want web2project to be the sort of tool where any organization can deploy it to start getting their project management operations straightened out. Regardless, this announcement is not the point of this post.
