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WordPress Developer Pub Night

Tuesday July 7th, 2009 will be the first Ottawa WordPress Developers Pub Night. Location and time are subject to interest from the community. Current theory is a start time of 8pm at Shoeless Joe’s at 3049 Carling Ave which has cheap wing night on Tues and very nice booths.

The two best ways to let them know you’re interested in attending are either post a comment on their blog or follow and tweet to them on Twitter – @wdgo. I know there are more than a few people in Ottawa who use Wordpress for great things including myself. I look forward to meeting them for a few pints to talk about what we would all like to give / get from a community developer group for our platform of choice.

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Getting social with Virtual Eyesee – Part 3

In the third and final part of an interview with Natasha, we discuss ways the Canadian government has / can / should invest in the concepts and technologies of Social Media over the next 12 – 18 months.

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I will never try to build a perfect website again!

In exploring the approach to development I had for my own website, I recognized that I was serially redesigning it and proverbially spinning my wheels. The unfortunate part of this vicious cycle is that it was all manufactured by me – the site, the content and perception that the obstacles were insurmountable. So last weekend I decided to leverage what I could from my existing efforts (css, images, javascript) and start fresh building on top of a strong theme framework base – Thematic. I did so with a new approach to the design, development and writing for the site. In this post, I explain why for my own personal sites / projects I have come to the conclusion that I will never try to build a perfect website again.

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Getting social with Virtual Eyesee – Part 2

In the second part of an interview with Natasha, we discuss examples of companies using social media effectively and how individuals can do the same to boost their own career.

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Getting social with Virtual Eyesee – Part 1

A broad ranging interview on all things social media with Natasha D’Souza, the founder of Virtual EyeSee which is a Social Media consulting agency serving North America. First up, exactly what is social media?

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A wonderful Wired Wednesday

A summary of the newest / most recent networking events for entrepreneurs and geeks in Ottawa. Plus re-capping what I’ve been up to lately since it obviously hasn’t been blogging.

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Share your plugins on WordPress.org

Wordpress 2.7 offers direct download of plugins from the Plugin Repository. This tutorial shows you how to maintain a plugin code on the Wordpress repository using Dreamweaver.

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What’s on WordPress.tv?

Automattic has launched their own “visual resource for all things WordPress”. I explore what channels I’d like to see on Wordpress.tv.

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WordPress: Commited to open source

Do you believe in open source because it has lower overhead or because it is the right thing to do? Where is the balance between capitalistic goals and social obligations?

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Premium or Proprietary Themes?

Premium implies being inherrently better than the alternatives. Proprietary is an accurate representation of the licensing restrictions. Which one is better or right?

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