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Re: PHP Women Community

Joseph LeBlanc — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:01:55 -0000

The DC Web Women will be present at the 2006 DC PHP Conference, held at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC next week.

Re: Do you test your backups? | Internet Applications - brian.teeman.net

Joseph LeBlanc — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:07:18 -0000

One of these days, I need to do a blog post on how to have your website backup automatically to your personal computer through rsync. My next step is to add automatic subversion commits to the process.

Re: Happy birthday joomla 1.5 | Joomla GPS - brian.teeman.net

Joseph LeBlanc — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:00:49 -0000

Somehow it feels like MORE than an year to me. But then again, I was writing about the code between betas ;)

Happy Birthday Joomla! 1.5!

Re: It's all G(r)eek to me | Across the globe - brian.teeman.net

Joseph LeBlanc — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:45:59 -0000

com_content replacement? Sounds like fun :D

Re: Would I date someone who doesn’t have a blog?

Joseph LeBlanc — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:25:13 -0000

Hey Ken,

Sharp looking blog... I should probably dig through the archives a litte and add your feed into my reader.

-Joe

Re: Technology, Guilt, and the Olympics

Joseph LeBlanc — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:43:18 -0000

Enjoy Torino!

Re: Providing ‘Quick Takes’

Joseph LeBlanc — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:19:07 -0000

I coded something like that for my blog. Sure, it's an extra, but it doesn't have to dominate your page. I have mine set to cap it off at the 10 most recent (that's probably a little much, but it's still manageable). I also find it a way of dealing with those stories/links/articles that may make it into a blog post later, but I don't have the time to deal with right away.

Re: Empower a Steve 2.0

Joseph LeBlanc — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:55:00 -0000

Funny thing is, I run into a lot of programmers/webheads who don't understand podcasting either. People constantly ask me why my "podcast suite" doesn't have a Flash based mp3 player for the website, totally missing the point that you can put the feed in a catcher or iTunes to automatically deliver the episodes.

So yeah, we need to raise some awareness of what's available.

Re: The New Way to Brothering

Joseph LeBlanc — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:22:40 -0000

I think Facebook is the closest to what you're talking about. When you add someone as a friend, you're presented with a list of ways you're connected to them.

I also really like the feature where you can upload photos, highlight your friends, and have those photos appear through their profile. It all then appears as a photographic timeline.

Re: Why Web 2.0 Matters to your Business – Concluding Thoughts

Joseph LeBlanc — Thu, 04 May 2006 21:30:08 -0000

I'm going to go off on a little tangent here and claim that the term 'enterprise' is as much of a buzzword as 'Web 2.0'. I've met a lot of people who claim that Java and .Net are more 'enterprise-ready' than other programming languages, without a lot to back this up. Mainly because enterprise is very vague and could mean anything.

But back on topic, my company recently started using a private wiki as well as a public blog. The wiki is for internal management and record keeping, while the blog is used for sharing new industry-related trends and websites.

Re: Snoozing through the Blogosphere

Joseph LeBlanc — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:14:23 -0000

However, if you have some comments about a popular story in the Washington Post, it may be work it for the Technorati linkback they have going on.

Re: SnapBits – Needs to be a bit more useful

Joseph LeBlanc — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:40:18 -0000

Good point about the Google Notebook plugin. Many people use the forum on my site to request features and fixes for my podcasting software, so I use Google Notebook to keep track of all of the threads with "todos."

Re: Yutter Goes Down Hard

Joseph LeBlanc — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:02:17 -0000

I was considering switching to DreamHost after issues with Rochen. It's quite difficult to find something that's reliable and has all of the features you want.

Re: Huckabuck Search Interface for Sale on eBay

Joseph LeBlanc — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:57:02 -0000

I think that a lot of these services will indeed sell, although probably not for a quarter-mil a pop, a la Kiko. I doubt people will make extremely high margins on these sites, but it's quite possible that they don't have to. You could probably make that back on Google AdSense and upsells, if you know what you're doing. (Which begs the question, exactly who bought Kiko?)

It is interesting to note that we're at the point where people are selling the code itself as the "company." Historically, software firms would be purchased by larger companies not for the software itself, but for access to the developers who wrote it (BeOS bought by Palm, etc...). With the Web 2.0 sites, this is not the case.

Re: Serious Problems with RSS – Part 3 (Content Ambiguity)

Joseph LeBlanc — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:04:08 -0000

The first issue is definitely a concern of mine. I may have some really good posts a first time visitor may be interested in, but they'll never see it because they're just getting the most recent items in the feed.

Re: Trillian Astra – One IM Client to Rule Them All

Joseph LeBlanc — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:12:01 -0000

Mmmm... Trillian. When I used Windows, Trillian was one of my favorite apps.

Re: 7 Ways to Get Quality Links

Joseph LeBlanc — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:25:46 -0000

I can vouch for #6 and #7.

Re: Mysterious TechCrunch Ad Claims $50K USD Signing Bonus

Joseph LeBlanc — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:41:16 -0000

Seems spammy to me.

Re: Making a Blog Less "Bloggy" and the Re-launch of TECHNOSIGHT.COM

Joseph LeBlanc — Mon, 07 May 2007 09:04:50 -0000

"They may not have been my best ones and they might not have been the most popular, as deemed by my readers or the blogosphere. In the end, I lose out because I did not convert that visitor to a reader and the visitor loses out because they might not have found what they wanted."

Exactly. I tried to do something like this before by showing nine posts of my blog at a time in a 3 x 3 layout, but that really hasn't accomplished what I'm wanting.

I like your new layout :).

Re: 7 Reasons Why Facebook is Rocking

Joseph LeBlanc — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:29:37 -0000

Yes, now that people have gotten used to the mini-feed and know how to stop it from broadcasting *everything* about themselves, it's really taken off. I started using the status updates to let everyone know the progress on my book. Like a blog, but much shorter and less commitment needed to keep up with.

Re: DC Tech and Startups – Ready to Breakout

Joseph LeBlanc — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:43:09 -0000

I agree with a lot of this and would add another DC area advantage: there's much, much more going on than the startup scene. Here, your neighbors are most likely to be lawyers, federal employees, NGO policy analysts, freelancers, or MBAs. I think this helps to cut down on the "startup echo-chamber" effect dramatically.

The one part I take issue with is talent. With the exception of University of Maryland (http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.c...), most of the talent I see around here is imported. While the other colleges in the area are certainly top-notch, they simply aren't geared towards CS and Engineering. Georgetown, George Mason, and George Washington are busy turning out MBAs and lawyers.