Seaons Greetings to All!

Published on December 21, 2009 in Announcements, Jen Duguay and Rastin Mehr. 0 Comments

Can you believe it is that time of year again?! Time seems to fly by faster with each passing year.

Rastin and I would like to wish all of our wonderful Tazzu friends a Happy Holiday, and a prosperous New Year!

Thank you for another year of your friendship and your support. 2010 certainly is going to be a very exciting year for us with the arrival of Anahita getting closer every day. Stay tuned, we’ll keep you posted.

Cheers!

Rastin and Jen

PS: Let’s not forget about those less fortunate than us. Maybe drop off some food to the Food Bank, visit someone who is house-bound, or give a special donation to the Salvation Army.

If we all just do one thing, we may be able bring a smile to someone’s face this Christmas who usually struggles this time of year.

We are truly blessed – lets spread it around.

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Dec. 15th ‘09 – Tazzu Christmas Get-Together!

Published on November 26, 2009 in Announcements, Events and Networking. 8 Comments Tags: , , .

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It looks like we’re going to be able to sneak one more get-together in before the year is over, and to really change things up, its going to be being held in Richmond!

So without further adieu…

EVENT DETAILS

Event: Tazzu Christmas Get-Together
Date: Tuesday, December 15th
Time: 6:30pm to whenever!
Location:
Sammy J Peppers
5580 No. 3 Road — 1/2 block south of the Lansdowne Skytrain Station
Richmond BC

RSVP here please.

We have reservations for about 15 people.

ABOUT SAMMY J PEPPERS
Sammy J Peppers – said to be “The Hottest Place on Earth” – is an upbeat, affordable fresh food eatery, steakhouse and hot shop for business people, adults and families.

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We will be situated in their amazing sports lounge, along with a 100″ big screen TV complete with state of the art sounds systems. That sounds like a party waiting to happen.

They have a huge free parking lot, and are only 1/2 block South of the Lansdowne Skytrain Station – so all Tazzu Vancouver peeps have no reason to not come out and join us! :)

Be sure to bring your appetite and business cards.

PS: FOOD BANK BOX

We will be setting up a Food Bank box. If you are able, please bring non-perishable item(s) and show those who need a hand, that we care!

We hope you can make it!

Oct. 20th ‘09 Tazzu Networking Event!

Published on September 23, 2009 in Announcements. 10 Comments Tags: .

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This has been a long time coming. Finally our next Tazzu Networking Event in Historic Gastown.

“The Lamplighter Pub has been a fixture of Gastown since 1925, and provides a really cool historic flavor in to the 21st century!”

DATE: Tuesday October 20th, 2009
TIME: 6:30pm
LOCATION: The Lamplighter Pub
ADDRESS: 92 Water St., Gastown Vancouver

»» Please RSVP either here in the Comments, or via our Facebook Event page – we will have seating for around 40 people

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When you walk in the Lamplighter door (Water Street entrance) look to your left… we will be occupying the 2 big round tables!

Join us, hang out, the night will be very informal, relaxed. Don’t forget your business cards, and invite a friend or two.

We hope to see you there!

Joomla Development Workshop in Vancouver

Published on September 21, 2009 in Announcements. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

There will be a Joomla Development Workshop happenning on September 25th. My good friend Aaron Handford from Floating World Development will be teaching there. One of their most recent projects has been the launch of Earls Restaurants website using the Joomla! 1.5 content management platform. There might be still some spaces available. If you would like to register click here

Michael-James Pennie & Tweet to Remember

Published on August 28, 2009 in Helping Out, Jen Duguay and Member's Spotlight. 0 Comments Tags: .

I first met Michael-James Pennie at a Tazzu networking even a few years back. I know him as a remarkable, upbeat and positive man.

I read for the first time today that his family has been coping with a debilitating disease which has afflicted his father, Jim, over the past several years… in 2003 he was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Pennie writes: “Our personal lives have never been the same. I never wanted to burden those close to me with my challenges, although there was a nagging instinct inside of me that refused to go away. I had to do something. I became inspired to share my story. I became inspired to be proactive to help not only my father, but those other families affected. “

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Tazzu will be revived by the Anahita

Published on August 22, 2009 in Announcements and Rastin Mehr. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

Tazzu is going to be revived and this time using the Anahita Social Engine as the platform of choice within 6-8 weeks. We were going to do that anyway, and it is very likely that we can migrate all the users and about 50% of the restored content from the old forum to the new platform.

Please stay tunned and follow us:

There goes the glimpse of hope!

Published on August 2, 2009 in Announcements and Rastin Mehr. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Well it seems that MediaTemple won’t be able to give us any database backups, because they don’t have any to provide.

The lesson we have learned from this incidence: “Never ever trust the administration tools shipped with your blogs and forum apps” stick to your reliable old fashion tools such as command line interface. We lost our data because PHPBB3 backup and restore didn’t quite work! Perhaps they should spend more time improving those features, in the mean time I should have continued using more reliable methods of administration such as getting a straight mysqldump from the database myself.

So we are left with 2 options. We will clean up the mess and start with a clean forum all over again. Fortunately all the user accounts still seem to be there.

The other option would be an early deployment of Anahita Social Engine for Tazzu which will take 2-3 weeks. In fact, if we see that fixing PHPBB3 will be taking a way too much of our time and resources we would rather invest that into the deployment using the Anahita.