This year’s Winter Coders Social is set to go. Come join the party this Tuesday, December 9th at Cubespace.
Details: http://calagator.org/events/1250456151

Spent the better part of the morning battling PHP/GD. I needed to overlay text on an image, something I can recall doing in the past without issue. Not this morning though. Everytime the code got to ‘imagettftext’ it would result in a WSOD. After much troubleshooting and Google’ng I found…

This talk was centered around adding channels of communication such as SMS and XMPP to existing HTTP web services.A project called Extapi, is a small web app that manages this coordination between multiple channels and services.here are the slides for my presentation given on November 14th 2008 at PHP|Works

In Atlanta for the php|works conference.Listening to the Keynote from Kevin Dangoor (founder of turbo gears). He’s discussing successfully fostering open source projects.Looking forward to meeting new folks with PHP and/or Python backgrounds

Very excited that the talk I submitted to php|works was accepted. I’ll be speaking at the Atlanta conference on my continuing work with combining XMPP and SMS with existing web API’s

One of my side projects has turned into a full blown startup. Shizzow.com will be officially announced at today’s Lunch 2.0 at cube space. It’s been a pleasure working with the other fine folks on this project and I’m looking forward to the future.Thanks to Silicon Florist for all the press

I discovered the Portland Trimet API about a month ago and was very inspired by the amount of real-time information available and the ease of accessing it through their web service. One feature of the service is that for a given stop id you can get the arrival times for the buses/trains…

Exciting event coming up at the end of March. Startupalooza is gaining steam, building quite the list of product demo’s (including Fyreball, my current employer). The event designed to be Those who have walked the path, sharing their knowledge and experiences with those interested in beginning startups. This is not a typical startup…

Looks much bigger (550+ registered) and better this go around. I went to Ignite 1 and had an excellent time. Can’t wait to see how it goes this time.
Happening Feb 5, 2008 : doors open at 5:15pm at the Bagdad.
Ignite Portland home page
register here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/390164/

Portland On Fire is a site launched by Raven Zachary on the first day of 2008. It’s goal is to give a quick bio of local folks, showing what they’ve done and what they are currently up to. It is starting with people in the tech and arts sector but the hope is that…