In addition to the mod_rewrite training class, I’ll also be teaching an “Apache Cookbook” 3 hour training class in Atlanta in November. I’ll be covering perhaps 20 practical recipes, in great detail, to do things that will be of direct benefit to you the day you get back to work.
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mod_rewrite class
I’ll be teaching a three-hour mod_rewrite training class at ApacheCon US, in Atlanta, Tuesday November 13th. There’s another day of training classes before this, on the 12th, and then the main conference follows, the 14th-16th. If you’re looking to get up to speed on mod_rewrite in a hurry, this is the place to be. We’ll be covering everything from basic regular expression syntax up through esoteric tricks with RewriteRule and RewriteMap and the whole thing, so come early, stay late, bring your laptop, and get ready to become a mod_rewrite wizard.
Amsterdam Moleskine
By the way, if you’re coming to ApacheCon in Amsterdam – and you should – you might want to pick up one of these Amsterdam Moleskine notebooks to help you find your way around.
Keynotes for ApacheCon
Looks like we’ve got Jim Gettys, with the OLPC project, Ora Lassila, and Doc Searls as keynotes for ApacheCon US 2007. Should be awesome.
ApacheCon US 2007
The Apache Software Foundation and Stone Circle Productions are proud to announce ApacheCon US 2007, which will be held in Atlanta, at the Westin Peachtree Plaza, November 12-16th. These five days include two days of half-day and full-day tutorials, followed by three days of one-hour sessions, covering the various technologies of the Apache Software Foundation.
We’d love to see you there.
There’s no place like home
It was a great conference, and a perfect location for the conference. But, it’s over, and I’m SO ready to go home. Or, as Dorothy put it …
… most of it was beautiful. But just
the same, all I kept saying to everybody
was, I want to go home. And they sent me
home.
All packed up, and in the morning I’ll be heading home. Going to bed, in the hopes that it will come faster.
Feathercast 30 is now up
FeatherCast 30 talks about ApacheCon in Hong Kong, which looks like it will be the first ApacheCon (well, not counting San Francisco) that I’ll miss. It’s a hard decision, but I’ve used up my travel quota for this year, as measured by my weariness as the end of this trip nears. Hopefully some day I’ll get another chance to go there.
And Danny posted a great picture of me Feathercasting. Thanks, Danny!
Mobile websites
I attended a talk yesterday about Apache HTTPd on cell phones. We selected the talk because the abstract seemed fascinating, and the idea of a mobile website was intriguing.
The talk started a little slow, with lots of heavy technical details, but then it got into uses and ideas for future use, and I was really glad we had selected the talk. Utterly fascinating.
The idea that caught my attention was websites that are 1) mobile and 2) on-demand.
Imagine carrying your website with you. Your website knows where you are. Folks can look at your website, and it tells them where you are, and, via bluetooth, your phone locates other websites (phones) that are in the same general vicinity. A website is “linked” to other websites by virtue of geographic proximity. And using a camera phone, you can take photos so that your website is very context-sensitive.
The on-demand idea was even more interesting. Click on this link to request a photo of where I am. The phone-holder gets a message on their phone, and takes a photo, which is then sent as the response to the HTTP request. Viola. Content that didn’t exist before the request was made, and doesn’t exist after the request is terminated. On-demand web content.
It does mean that things like search will have to be rethought a little bit.
This was all presented as a technical project, of great geeky interest. However, I am now *certain*, that in the next couple of years, someone will find a way to make this easy to use, and will find a way to charge for it, and you’ll see thousands of mobile websites (“mobsites”) springing up and becoming a huge percentage of web content.
Strangely, this makes twitter seem slightly interesting too, if it can be brought into this kind of a model. I’m not entirely sure what that means, but I am sure that someone will figure out what that means and do it.
Half way …
As usual, it’s halfway through the conference and I haven’t had any opportunity to write anything.
Unfortunately, I also haven’t had any opportunity to record any FeatherCast interviews. This is disappointing, in that David has done so many great episodes lately, and I haven’t done much of anything in a really long time.
I *hope* to record the lightning talks this evening, but I’m not certain if that will happen or not, since I’ll need my laptop to give my lightning talk. I guess I made that work somehow in Dublin.
The conference so far has been great. Both of the keynotes so far have been interesting and well delivered. In particular, I found Steven Pemberton very entertaining and informative.
This evening are the ever-popular lightning talks, where I hope to be amusing. We’ll see if anybody gets it, or if I’m the only one who thinks it’s funny.
ApacheCon Day 1
Today is the first day of ApacheCon. We had tutorials yesterday, so that was sort of day 0.
I gave a new tutorial yesterday – Apache Cookbook – and I think it was fairly well received. I apparently judged the amount of content just about perfectly, running over a mere 3 minutes.