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I missed the BarCamp conference in Palo Alto last weekend. I wish I’d gone, but I’ll just have to find videos from the conferences and watch them during my commute.

what’s new at TechWeb, you ask?

Our MediaLive group (the group I work with) recently took control of the software 2008 conference, a product of the people at sandhill.com. we’ve also expanded several of our current shows to international venues (Interop São Paulo, Web 2.0 Berlin…). We also recently launched bMighty.com, a journal/blog devoted to SMB’s.

I’ve been working with OpenAds, configuring our own ad server to replace our paid contract with double-click. I’m also trying to get us off of HitBox, which could easily be replaced with Google Analytics. I’ve installed the analytics-javascript file on all of our templates, now I just have to convince the higher-ups that the statistics from on Google Analytics are as good if not better than what we get from HitBox. Ah… bureaucracy…

i just installed apache with php and mysql (xampp) on my macbook pro. when i start up the server, everything runs a bit sluggishly, but it’s worth having so that i can work on php/mysql stuff on the train. if things are too sluggish, i can always just shut down thee olde kernel itself.

current projects:

• redo my php-craps game to take advantage of ajax, also integrate a gambling/wager feature, and beef up the graphics a bit
• create simplified ecommerce wedding registry
• negotiate a redesign

i just wrapped up a small freelance project for www.carbonharmony.com. some very basic javascript which helps you calculate your CO2 emissions on a yearly basis.

you can see what i did here, and hopefully soon, you will see it on www.carbonharmony.com.