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CMS Capabilities of WordPress

The underlying architecture of the WordPress content storage and retrieval systems provide a flexible and powerful way of creating all manner of sites.

This talk is an overview of that capability and stern reminder that its not about the WordPress plugins you install, but the Information Architecture you implement that will make your site a success or not.

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nginx: from russia with love

Besides the very obvious (and common) joke in the title, this is a set of slides giving you an overview of what nginx can do for you and why you should be considering it over your current web server software. If you have any questions, please leave a comment. This talk was delivered at BarCamp Tampa Bay in September 26, 2009.

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what are YOU doing?

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passion + inspiration = innvovation 2.0

One part entrepreneurial rally cry, two parts iterative dissection of internet trends, and one part philosophical meta-rant; this talk adds up to be one hell of a thought provoker.

Building on the basic theme of the version 1 of this talk, the “incomplete history of the internet” portion has been completely reworked to better reflect current trends, and comes to a completely different set of conclusions.

Download the passion + inspiration = innovation 2.0 slides or watch the embedded version below.

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Managing Multiple Drupal Sites with SVN

You’re a smart and handsome developer and as such you utilize a source control solution in your work. Your work focuses on the excellent Drupal platform, and as such you have multiple Drupal sites that you manage for yourself as well as your clients. Storing each site in its own repository is good, but storing your commonly used modules in a central repository and pulling them into each site via svn:externals is better. This talk will show you how.
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