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12 November 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Dropbox and Ubuntu One

I did a talk on Dropbox and Ubuntu One at the CPLUG meeting on Tuesday night. The slides are online:

I was surprised that no one had heard of Ubuntu One even though quite a few people in the room were running Ubuntu 9.10.

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31 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Find the UUID of a drive in Linux

I recently switched my home file server from Gentoo to Ubuntu and noticed that, by default, Ubuntu uses UUIDs to identify hard drives in /etc/fstab.
That’s cool, because I’ve had some issues in the past with USB drives grabbing different device names than I expected. Using a truly unique identifier (or at least one that’s [...]

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25 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Only 22 days until CPOSC 2009

Just 22 days left until the 2nd annual Central PA Open Source Conference, but there is still time to register! Tickets are only $34.99 and give you access to all three conference tracks (21 speakers), breakfast, and lunch. Pretty good deal for a fun day. It’s also a great way to network [...]

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30 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Want to speak at CPOSC 2009?

We’ll be running another Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC) this year!
CPOSC is a small, low-cost, one-day conference about all things Open Source. This year it will be on Saturday, October 17, 2009 in Harrisburg.
The Call for Participation is now open and we are looking for speakers. If you or someone you know would [...]

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10 June 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Flying light with Lighttpd

Slides from my Lighttpd talk are up in the gallery.
Some of the slides that make use of build-in/out transitions exported to single images, so it doesn’t show each step. For example, in the Web Frameworks slide I included shout-outs to Rails, Django, Merb, Pylons, and TurboGears… but you’ll only see Rails.
If I get motivated, I’ll [...]

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