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Mmmm…. scams… (part 1?)

This afternoon my neighbor (who I’d never met before) showed up at my door with a bundle of bright pink papers. He explained to me that he was inviting me to a meeting tomorrow at our local library that would help me make vast amounts of money. Oh really?
I probed for some details [...]

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Ignite Portland was a huge success

I took the afternoon off work so I could drive to Portland to attend Ignite Portland. The introduction didn’t start until 6:20pm – I drove past the theatre at 4:45pm and there was already a line. The 500 person seating limit was filled while there were still people waiting in line. I [...]

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The most worthless bot on IRC

I’m not one to jump on bandwagons just because they’re rolling by (even with great companions), but I started using Python in one of my projects and I’ve got to say that I’m pretty happy with it. I think their documentation leaves something to be desired but overall the language is pretty intuitive and [...]

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Portland Coder Party Tonight

Sorry for the short notice but there is a December Coders Bash tonight that Mozilla is helping sponsor. It starts at 7pm at CubeSpace. Drop by if you get a chance – it’s informal and sounds like a bunch of fun. Stealing from the linked page:
Some of the events we are considering [...]

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Today, I clean my house beer-style

I’m pretty sure I coined a new phrase in a dream last night. In my dream, I was talking to some people about multitasking several projects that I had to do, and I said:
“Nah, I’m going to do these projects beer-style.”
In the dream I specifically remember it meaning “I’m going to finish one before [...]

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OSCON 2007

I just learned recently that I’ll be presenting at OSCON 2007. Mike Morgan and I will be talking about the process we went through to localize addons.mozilla.org.
If you followed the saga when we were trying to launch, you know we ran into some headaches with scaling the code to the amount of [...]

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June PDX Drupal Meetup

I caught wind of a Drupal meetup tonight, and since I’m going to be working with Drupal in the near future I thought I’d stop by and check it out. My main goal was to hear about other people’s experiences using Drupal in a multilingual environment.
This was my first time attending one of [...]

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