At ApacheCon I gave a lightning talk about mod_config_rewrite. I keep meaning to convert it into some web-accessible form, but so far haven’t had the cycles to do it justice.
Meanwhile, for those of you who care, I’ve stuck my slides up on people.apache.org so that you can get the general idea.
MarkMail is the latest cool way to visualize email on the many, many Apache mailing lists. Here’s a snapshot of the messages that I’ve sent over the last 8 years or so. Has it really been that long?
About 4 years ago, most of my activity switched to non-public mailing lists, which, I think, accounts for the abrupt dropoff.
You’ve got just 2 more days to send in your paper proposal for ApacheCon Amsterdam. Lars extended the CFP through Friday. Hurry, hurry!
Meanwhile, just 11 days until ApacheCom Atlanta. I really need to finish my training notes. I’m particularly excited about my mod_rewrite training, which promises to be a lot of fun. For me, anyways. 🙂
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.
I’m positively tickled pink to announce that The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite is now available in Polish.
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.
Roughly 10 years ago, I was given commit access to the documentation of the Apache HTTPd Server. At the time, this was, in my opinion, one of the highest honors I had ever received. To be a contributer to a product used on more than half of the web servers on the planet – even at a time when hardly anybody had heard of the web – was indeed high praise.
Since then, I’ve become a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and that has replaced the commit bit as the highest honor received. I wear the badge of ASF membership very proudly, and there’s always a touch of hubris in introducing myself as “Rich Bowen, from the Apache Software Foundation.”
Each time I type ‘svn ci’ and make a change to the Apache docs, there’s a surge of pride that *I* am a part of *that*, and that the things that I do will help, quite literally, millions of people. I figured it would wear off after a few years, or get worn down by the politics and personalities, but, no, so far, it’s still there.
In the last few days, I’ve received my itineraries for travels in May, and it’s suddenly seeming very close.
The last week of April I’ll be leaving for Apachecon in Amsterdam. I’m still frantically trying to get my tutorial notes done so that I can have them in by the deadline on Friday. I was dumb enough to submit a brand new tutorial for this ApacheCon, after giving the same tutorial every ApacheCon since 2000 in Orlando (with one exception – I was just so sick of it that I didn’t do it in Austin.) and now I have to actually prepare it. Just an enormous amount of time involved in putting together a half-day tutorial.
Two weeks after that, I’ll be speaking at PHP|Tek in Chicago – one of the few places in the world that I can fly to without changing planes. I’ve never been to a PHP conference before, and it’s a great honor to be asked. I’ll be giving my “intro to mod_rewrite” talk, and then I’ll get to hang out with all those cool PHP people for a few days. I’m really looking forward to that.
So, if you’re going to be in either Amsterdam or Chicago in May, do drop by and see me. And if you’re not, well, you should make plans to be. They’ll both be great conferences, and there will be interesting people there.
A few days ago, I received The Apache Modules Book in the mail, and today I received 4 more copies of it. I had the great honor of writing the foreword to the book, and so my name appears on the cover, too, which is very cool. It’s good to have my name associated with such a fine book.
Nick has written a lot of Apache stuff, as well as numerous articles about Apache. And now there’s this book, which is simply the best documentation available on the topic of writing Apache modules.
Unfortunately, there’s really nothing else out there to compare it to. There’s the official developer documentation, which is sparse to the point of embarrassment. And there is a rather outdated book known as the eagle book, which was good when it was fresh, but has grown a little outdated over the last 8 years.
But, fortunately, this book is great whatever we have to compare it to. I highly recommend it, and highly recommend Nick as the right person for the job of explaining this particular topic. Go. Buy it now.
I’ll be giving a new training session at ApacheCon in Amsterdam. It’s a three hour hands-on tutorial covering as many Apache Web Server recipes as we can fit in.
After I gave me “20 things you didn’t know you could do with your Apache web server” talk at a few conferences, a number of people suggested that I give it at a not-quite-so-frantic pace, and that idea eventually turned into this tutorial. The talk consists of step-by-step how-tos, solving common questions asked on IRC and mailing lists.
This tutorial is geared to the beginner or intermediate Apache Web Server administrator, but experienced admins may also pick up some tricks that they hadn’t considered before.
Closer to the event, I’ll post a list of the specific questions that I intend to cover.
Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop with Apache installed, so that they can go through each recipe with me, and have them working at the end of the class. Attendees will also be provided with the recipes themselves in either electronic or hardcopy form.