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BarCampChaos @ CreateChaos ’08

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The best conversations happen in the hallway.

BarCampChaos is a free unconference, open to everyone, that moves those conversations into the main room, and gives all campers the opportunity to lead a discussion, share their passion, and show off their work. BarCampChaos is a mini-BarCamp session being held at the CreateChaos conference on Monday, October 13, 2008, that will put these ideals into practice and share the open source unconference format with a new group of participants. Learn more, and add your name to the wiki if you are attending at the BarCampChaos wiki.

Join us at 6pm on Monday in the Grand Ballroom 8A at:

Create Chaos 08 at Marriott World Center
8701 World Center Dr, Grand Ballroom 7B
Orlando, FL, 32821

BarCampChaos is completely free, but we encourage you to register, as registered folks will be given a complimentary pass to the CreateChaos Expo Hall for Tuesday, October 14. Registered Campers interested in attending the other CreateChaos conference sessions can receive $200 off of the normal admission price by using this discount code: BARCAMP

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Flare Smith reaches new milestone

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My Flare Smith Plugin, reached a new milestone today: v0.17. This version fleshes out the functionality to support new school AdSense enabled feeds, but also supports the popular My Brand feature which allows you to mask feeds.feedburner.com URLs with your own domain name. Version 0.17 also sports a shiny new options page that should be a little easier to use, especially now that there are 3 distinct settings that must be manipulated, depending on your needs, to get Flare Smith up and running.

There is one caveat though. The AdSense enabled feed support is a little wonky, but of no fault of my own.

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Lucky Number 13

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FlareSmith v0.13 has been released, and provides two important fixes for those upgrading. It now fully supports WordPress MU, as well as fixing a nasty bug where new users couldn’t get their FeedBurner feed name to save on the options screen. It is highly recommended that all users upgrade immediately.

FlareSmith allows you to insert FeedBurner’s FeedFlare service into your WordPress powered blog without having to edit any theme files. The same FeedFlare code (a small javascript snippet added to end of every post) also enables the use of FeedBurner Stats (including the ‘Free’Pro version).

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FlareSmith v0.9 and Plugin Competition Update

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I updated FlareSmith, my WordPress plugin that helps you integrate FeedFlare and FeedBurner stats into your WordPress blog without having to edit your theme files, yesterday. Version 0.9 added an option to include the FeedBurner javascript snippet below every post on the site, instead of just on the Single page (full blog post). This way, when your posts are listed on the homepage or in other lists, the FeedFlare will show. You’ll want to keep this option turned off if you aren’t using FeedFlare on your site, and just want FeedBurner Stats, as FB Stats are only set to record hits to the individual posts, and not the archive or homepage of your blog. I also cleaned up the documentation some, and am preparing the plugin for i18n. I already have a couple of volunteers for Spanish and Turkish, but if you’re interested in helping to translate the FlareSmith plugin – let me know.

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Orlando’s First Coworking Space is Starting to Materialize

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Here’s some exciting news on the Orlando Coworking front. CoLab Orlando is on the verge of opening in the historic Angebilt building at Orange and Wall St. Etan Horowitz at the Orlando Sentinel got a tour of it today and posted a pretty thorough piece on it. They plan to open it to the general public in September and looks like it might be $250 per month to set up permanent shop in the space. Day passes will likely be $25, but all the prices are still up in the air.

Until then, there’s the Coworking Orlando list, and the regular tuesday coworking at Stardust.

XServe Virtual Hosting by Media Temple

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Now this is cool. Media Temple, in partnership with Parallels, is going to soon be offering XServe virtual hosting with the ability to scale up to a full XServe’s worth of power and server resources. Offering everything an XServe has, including serving multiple web sites (including built-in wikis and blogs, whatever that means), iCal Server, Directory, and Time Machine backups – I’m hoping that it will prove to be useful for small group ware work and personal site hosting.

You can apply for the Private Beta here.

PHP Framework Shoot Out

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Bonnier Corp, my current employer, allows us to host the Orlando PHP Meet-Up group at our offices. It was recently resurrected after a year or so of lying dormant.

For the month of June we are going to be staging a ‘Code Shoot Out’between 4 of the most popular development frameworks for PHP: CakePHP, Zend Framework, Symfony, and Code Igniter.

The idea is simple: Each developer, who is already familiar with the framework they are using (in order to remove the learning curve all frameworks have from the equation), will take the same MySQL schema and create the same application with it. This way we the strengths and weaknesses of each framework could be compared in a relative way, instead of absolutely.

If you’re interested in attending, sign up and RSVP as soon as possible, as it is filling up quickly.

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WordPress 2.5 is Out!

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This may be the biggest upgrade to WordPress since the jump from 1.5 to 2.0. There are numerous changes on the front-end and the back-end. The admin panel has probably seen the most radical changes, as it has been completely redesigned from the ground up. And they redesigned wordpress.org to boot! So that’s why it took 6 months for v2.5 to come out… :)

A quick round up of the new features:

  • Multi-File Uploading
  • Upgrade Plugins with a single click
  • Photo Galleries
  • A Dashboard you can Customize
  • Salted Passwords and Encrypted Cookies to increase the security of the project
  • A Media Library of all your uploaded assets
  • A WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess up your code (zomg!)
  • Protection against Concurrent Post Editing
  • Writing in Full Screen Mode
  • And a search engine that covers both posts AND pages (long the domain of a plugin)

You can read all about it in the official announcement.