March 26, 2009 – 12:27 pm
The presenter at tonight’s (3/26/2009) Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting will be Paul Reinheimer of php|architect. His presentation, “Easy Problems are the Hard Problems,” will take an in-depth look at the easy/hard parts of web applications. There will be pizza for your consumption (provided by Found Line). If you’re a web developer in the […]
A claim you may have heard me make before is that the web is not a visual medium. Some of you know exactly what I mean and some of you probably think I’m nuts. For those of you who think I’m crazy, let me elaborate. You, like most people, probably experience the web visually. However, […]
In my last post about the semantic web I mentioned the XFN project which allows individuals to define their relationships to others simply using semantically marked up hyperlinks. I also said that a global graph can be made of all of these relationships making the “walled gardens” of existing social networking sites obsolete. Before I […]
Wow, thank you to everyone who participated and helped make Town Meeting Day Vermont ’09 a social media success! In the spirit of openness, I wanted to share some things that Jason and I learned from the tmdvt.net/09 experiment. First of all, some disclaimers. It’s important to note that we were just one small part […]
February 28, 2009 – 10:43 pm
The first Tuesday of March is Town Meeting Day here in Vermont. Citizens throughout Vermont get together and elect local officers and vote on budgets. While it doesn’t get as much attention as some of the bigger elections, it’s still an important day in local politics. This year’s Town Meeting Day will be on March […]
February 24, 2009 – 12:32 pm
Aaron Carlino will giving an overview of the SilverStripe CMS / framework at this week’s Burlington, VT PHP Users Group meeting (details). The meeting will be held Thursday February 26th, 2009 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm at Bluehouse Group in Richmond. As always, the meeting is open to the public (but be sure to […]
February 22, 2009 – 7:53 pm
In a previous post, What You Need to Know About the Semantic Web, I shared my letter to Harvard Business Review’s editor about their recent semantic web article. I realized after I made that post that I should probably have addressed the difference between the Semantic Web (a proper noun) and the semantic web (lower-case). […]
February 19, 2009 – 1:31 pm
On last week’s The Browser interview (audio) with Jason Pelletier (jason_pelletier) and me, Jonathan Butler (jonathanpb) asked me for an example of a proprietary framework and I used Adobe Flex as an example. It turns out that the Flex SDK is actually not a proprietary framework and is, in fact, open source. I should have […]
February 18, 2009 – 2:50 pm
Don’t forget to tune into Jonathan Butler’s new radio show, The Browser, tonight (Wed Feb 18th) at 6:00pm on Burlington, Vermont’s WOMM-LP 105.9 FM The Radiator. He’ll be talking with David Gibson of Propeller Media Works. If you’re not in Burlington you can always listen online or catch the podcast after the show. The podcast […]
February 10, 2009 – 12:02 pm
Tomorrow night (Wednesday February 11th, 2009) Jason and I will be on Jonathan Butler’s new radio show, The Browser. We’ll be talking about Found Line, our work, free/open source software, and open standards. We’ll also talk a little bit about the Burlington, VT PHP Users Group. You can listen to the show at 6:00pm on […]
