Monthly Archives: July 2007

WordPressMU: Making a smart platform choice

Jul 18th – 4pm

I recently engaged in an interesting discussion with a client about their choice of platform technology for their website and community build-out. Their current website is built in .NET and they’re getting to the point where things are about to start getting set in stone in terms of scaling and overall architecture and it kinda [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Open source, Technology, The Web Arts, Web building, WordPress | Comments (16)

The story of exPhone.org

Jul 15th – 11pm

At FOO Camp, we held a session on Green Code and discussed various tactics for reducing power consumption by reducing (primarily) CPU cycles through wiser platform decisions and/or coding practices.
Somewhere in the discussion we brought up the impending launch of the iPhone and it occurred to me that there really wasn’t any substantive [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Design, Microformats, Open source, SpreadSpread, Technology, The Web Arts, Usability, Web building | Comments (9)

What is a DevCamp?

Jul 13th – 12am

While the event is still fairly fresh in my mind, I wanted to take a moment to extract some of the elements that I think made iPhoneDevCamp such a success. I’d like to put down my thoughts on how others can emulate our model towards yet another extension of the community-run, grassroots-driven event known as [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Barcamp, Mash Pit, Open source, Technology, The Web Arts, Web building | Comments (4)