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Drupal Quest
We're planning a road trip to Drupal-Con 2009 in Washington, DC and to the Show-In-A-Box Hangout-A-Thon in Virginia. Here is the proposed route so far. It's still in flux, so things may change, but it's starting to take shape. Still lots to do to this map. Photos are here on Flickr. Twitter updates in the blog sidebars. Stay tuned...
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What the 2.0 in Web 2.0 Means
A number of my friends have encouraged me to post something regarding what I have observed about the meaning of the "2.0" in "web 2.0"
There are lots of articles on the web about "what is web 2.0" and how it differs from web 1.0 (or 1.5, etc.). From my experience, it is simply this:
Web 2.0 applications generally cost at least twice as much as web 1.0 applications.
Why? Simply because most web 1.0 applications required a degree of system administration, while web 2.0 applications also require community administration. Building, deploying and administering an application is not enough to ensure it's success these days... Read more »
Los Angeles Barcamp Geek Dinner at uWink
We had a great time last night at the monthly barcampLA geek dinner at the hi-tech uWink restaurant in Woodland Hills. Lots of new and old friends. Good food, fun demos and give-aways.
Thanks to our uWink hosts and special thanks to organizers hvst, ccg, boogah and mjlambie.
Check out heathervescent's feb geek dinner recap. Here's a video I made from the event.
The next Los Angeles barcamp is coming up March 1&2 at AOL. Geek dinner's are every third Tuesday at 8pm. The next one is March 18th at Canter's deli.
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Drupal as a Framework for a Social Context Engine
Richard Schave from the LA Drupal Group discusses how Drupal might be used to help relate and recommend content. Here's a video recording of Richard's Los Angeles Drupal Camp 2007 session.
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Wiki Patterns
wikipatterns.com is a fantastic site that collects both best and worst practices around wiki's. There is some really spot-on information here that many people have found out through experience. Socailtext also has a Best Practices wiki and there are others, but wikipatterns brings it all together in one attractive place (is that a pattern? Maybe we should call it CoolSite).
There are a number of other excellent resource pages. In particular, I found a very useful list of articles about adoption of Web 2.0 technologies into the enterprise.
Cool badge and Creative Commons license too :) Read more »
