Barcamp 2011 this weekend!

When:
April 30th, 2011
Registration at 9:00am
Where:
South Dakota Business & Technology Center – Thank them for sponsoring a venue for us!

Lunch provided by Blend Interactive

T-Shirts by SD Screen Printers and CHR Solutions.

A BIG thank you to our other sponsors:
LodgeNet Interactive
SDN Communications

Looking forward to seeing you all there!
-Justus

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BarcampSDK 2011 coming soon!

Mark your calendars: April 30th, 2011

If you are interested in joining us for this great “unconference” please register here! It only takes a few seconds and it lets us know how many people to expect. For those of you who registered for the last Barcamp, please update your profiles as needed.

We are also taking applications for sponsorships, so if your company is interested in helping make this event a roaring success please contact me directly at me@justusboatright.com

Continue reading » · Written on: 03-27-11 by Justus · 5 Comments »

Data Mining for Fun & Profit

While doing some research on the Amazon Kindle DX I came across this interesting Twitter breakdown:

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Apparently the author of the post was using their own technology Voxtrot Opinion to get a breakdown on how folks felt about the new gadget. Deane and Joe were the ones who first started discussing data mining their site, but this could be relevant to other BarCampers as well.

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Is Wolfram|Alpha really a search engine?

There was a argument heated discussion at BarCampSDK that Wolfram|Alpha failed as a search engine. Thankfully now we have definitive proof that is not a search engine.

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CakePHP 101

I will go over the basics of CakePHP.

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

Woot.

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bauhaus 2.0

balancing clients, creativity, and code

What can we learn from Bauhaus furniture, wallpaper, and books?

A discussion about improving interactive agencies and the education of developers and designers.

With a cameo appearance by le Corbusier.

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Semantic Web

I’ll be talking with y’all about the semantic web, its meaning, its usefulness, and what it portends for the future of the web.

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DIY IP PBX: PfSense as a PBX appliance with FreeSwitch

Expect a light intro to PfSense, a FreeBSD Based firewall distro that’s hardened and capable of putting extremely expensive Cisco equipment to shame and it’s laundry list of functions/packages. Following a brief intro to PfSense I’ll detail the FreeSwitch package, an easy to configure version of the extremely flexible, scalable and fast open source soft switch.  I’ll have all the details of the hardware & software setup I’m using to run it successfully in a SOHO 5 line implementation.

Continue reading » · Written on: 05-28-09 by chrisuthe · No Comments »

Get PHP Superpowers Over Your Database

You won’t have to get bitten by a radioactive spider to handle this presentation. Learn how to harness the power of DB_DataObject, Smarty, and PHP to build your own MVC (model-view-controller) web application.

Stop writing CRUD code and find out more about what all the cool kids are talking about without learning that mineral language.

Continue reading » · Written on: 05-27-09 by matthew · No Comments »

960 grid vs fluid vs elastic

FIRST!

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