Ryan Joy (atxryan)

• we’re explaining to @alexmit what is meant by "he rode the short bus to school" #
• looks like I’m going to Din Ho Chinese BBQ w/ my roommates. Mmm, family style chinese… #

• just finished a delicious meal at Bonnie Ruth’s French restaurant in Frisco, Tx w/ @codehooligans, @jensimmons, @michellesblog, and Jeff. #
• downloading and installing WordPress 2.5 at http://atxryan.com - also, checking out the very cool Woopra app. That thing will be addicting. #
• day two of WordCamp coming up! #
• I’m experiencing a Krispy Kreme sugar rush. OMGZ!!1shift-one :-P #
• @lauratex: 78704, of course. Close to downtown, walkable, friendly. Hyde Park / North Campus as a close second. #
• soooo sleepy. #

Highlights for this day include:

• Listening to Charles Strickland, Jonathan Bailey of PlagiarismToday, Mark Jaquith, March Ghosh, and Matt Mullenweg joined together to live record the 39th episode of The WordPress Podcast.
• Aaron Brazell went over WordPress FAQs. Topics covered included the epic categories vs. tags, what is GPL (what is free, for that matter>), and the two different types of “hooks” (filters & actions) available to plugin and theme developers.
• Mark Ghosh, Liz Strauss, Matt Mullenweg, and Aaron Brazell covered business-blogging best practices in their panel The Business of Blogging
• Jacob Santos explained “unit testing” in his Testing with WordPress. Interested in learning how to patch the WordPRess Core?

That about wraps it up. I may end up coming back to these posts to add more information in the following days. All in all WordCamp Dallas 2008 has been great and, at only $20 registration, it’s been a steal too! Many thanks to all the folks who worked to put this event together.

Everything went smoothly and it seems that only one plugin, Simple Tags, is not working correctly. Its not causing any errors, but it is not working as expected on the Post page.

• finally made it to the hotel… looking forward to Wordcamp Dallas tomorrow #
• up early for the first day of WordCamp Dallas. Full of coffee and breakfast (hot, not continental) #
• Wordpress 2.5 Dashboard & Admin look really great! The new media mgmt & upload tools are impressive. #
• listening to John Pozadzides talk about powering up your blog http://tinyurl.com/2j5knq at #wordcamp dallas #
• John P: "Friends Don’t Let Friends See Ads" #wordcamp #
• we get beta invites for woopra.com! Looks ridiculously robust. #wordcamp #
• listening to @plagiarismtoday discuss how to prevent, detect, and stop content theft #

Paul Menard, Jeff Bernier, Michelle Greer, and Jen Simmons and I made the trek last night to Frisco, Texas for WordCamp Dallas 2008.

Today was day one and it’s been very informative thus far. Highlights include:

• Matt Mullenweg announced the official release of WordPress 2.5 during his talk this morning! You can download it and it’s Dashboard/Admin goodness at http://wordpress.org.
• John Pozadzides listed 45 very good and thorough ways to power up your blog. Most of his points were targeted at bloggers who write for an audience, but I believe that many of his points can be applied to a smaller, personal site like mine as well.
• Jonathan Bailey covered Copyright, Creative Commons, content theft and the detection/prevention/obstruction thereof, and everything in between. I don’t consider many of the issues he discussed to be applicable to myself, but they are definitely important to my clients. Of course, if I’m ever hit with a DMCA notice then Bailey’s talk would be very beneficial indeed.
• Listening to Lorelle share her power blogging tips (and take WordPress to task for anything that bothered her in the least bit) was great. She’s a firecracker. :-)

• @omarg Re: door64, the bar holds 150 according to the fire marshall. This meant one-in-one-out. It was still great once I got in! #
• I’m surrounded by monitors! And two of ‘em are engaged in a staring contest. http://www.flickr.com/photos/atxryan/2369531390/ #
• This is the most succinct and compelling argument I’ve seen for good code and site design to date: http://youtube.com/watch?v=a0qMe7Z3EYg #

• In t-minus 19 hours, 275,000 baby seals will be clubbed. Tell Canada how reprehensible this really is: http://humanesociety.org/protectseals #
• Tonight we’ve got the Door64/LinkedIn Happy Hour (probably) and then home to watch Austin’s Tyson Cole on Iron Chef (definitely) #
• based upon positive input about advertising from @codehooligans and @rickbenavidez, I’ve finally upgraded to Twitterrific 3.1 #
• Dear Twitter.com: I checked the "Remember me" box upon sign-in. Please stop forgetting. Kthxbai. #

• Happy birthday, @RyanKrebs! #
• Web Design meetup was great; w/ lots of new people showing up. Everyone loved the OLPC laptop too! #
• updating my OLPC to latest build (656). This is a lot of fun. I can’t wait to write a full user review on my site. #

• Mmm, pint night… Anyone up for a brew at the Gingerman? #
• Sunset canoe outing == MASSIVE FUCKING FAIL. Tipped over. Lost: jacket, smart phone, and designer eye glasses. That’s one expensive FAIL. #
• laughing at http://failblog.wordpress.com with my roommates. #
• @traumanursejade: yay! that phone will last through anything! I’d bet it’d even survive a fire! #
• finally received my OLPC laptop! w00t! #
• @drhayes: I just received it. Haven’t even taken it out of the box yet. Plan is to play w/ it for a couple of months, then give it to niece. #
• outside at the Gingerman for tonight’s Austin Web Design Meetup (http://webdesign.meetup.com/457/) hopefully the grackels will stay away. #