I was recently looking around on istock for some new illustration designs and came across this artist http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=4419273 http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-16339118-human-vs-machine.php?st=7850843 I really like her use of contemporary shapes and modern themes, looking at using it in my up and coming project. Also some cool robotshttp://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-9413057-robot-set.php?st=461f5bf
Recently Nick Hodge (Open Source Evangelist) from Microsoft asked me if I would like to do an introduction for the new School of PHP that Microsoft was launching. The School of PHP is a very cool idea and I could not say no to something that could get more people into PHP development. The school is an online course which has video tutorials that help walk people through writing web applications with PHP using Microsoft…
Connecting Children across countries Recently started working with Raul Caceres on a new project for Child Fund. I will be helping out on the Drupal 6 theme building. I am excited about this project as it is connecting children between Australian and Vietnam via way of online community and video sharing. The project will be build using Drupal 6 on Linux, Apache, Mysql. The set date for launch is July 2011. I will be working…
During the Linux Conference mini conf days held on Monday and Tuesday @chrsjnr ran a day of talks about open source code. Adam Harvey from php.net presented a talk in which he was inspired by a talk given at Pycon last year on the state of Python. It is presented in a tongue and check way and very well done. If your a PHP fan or not it is worth a watch and a good…
I was very pleased and humbled to be invited to the One Laptop Per Child Australia Gala night. Have really enjoyed working with the team and seeing behind the scenes and all the hard work that has gone into this event. The night was extra special as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was able to make it to announce the changes to Tax benefits for OLPC sponsorship program. The night was amazing, a touch above the…
After discussions with Sydney Windows User Group informing them about my plans to test and trial Azure for a CMS solution i had running on Linux, I was informed about http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ . I was pointed in the direction of Catherine Eibner who was able to answer any questions I had, and yes she also had me signed up. Basically you get Support from Microsoft and also exposure through Start-up promotion websites and access to Microsoft…