Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Joomla DocCamp - finer than a marshmallow roast!

Joomla DocCamp Vancouver BC Canada

Well, the Vancouver Joomla DocCamp was a huge success!

More than a dozen of us camped out at Network Hub for the day… and between the free-flowing Timmy’s coffee and delicious donuts - conversation wound its way around Social Networking, Open Source, Content Management Systems vs Blogs, and Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla of course!

With free wireless access, a beautfully warm & dry place to hang our hats, an extension cord to plug our laptops into (slightly resembling an octopus afterwards), and an exciting new Joomla product, it couldn’t help but be a near perfect DocCamp - all that was missing was the campfire and marshmallows!

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fractal – creating the artistic patterns of his own life

Fractal - Tazzu Member

There is a saying that goes like this… “what you see is what you get”.

This is true if you don’t take the time to look closer at what you see. Today, as I begin taking a closer look at our next Tazzu spotlight member: fractal - I realize there is much more to him than meets the eye.

I was curious to see just when exactly fractal had joined Tazzu, so before writing this article I clicked on Tazzu’s membership list link. Did you know that fractal is officially Tazzu’s very first Charter Member? I admit I’m embarrassed because I didn’t really notice this before, I’m also greatly honored. It is with much pleasure that I introduce to you Paul Dwyer - aka fractal.

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Tazzu’s 2nd Networking Event at Milestones!

We had so much fun at our last Tazzu Networking Event (Nov. ‘07) that we decided to once again hold it at Milestones (Yaletown) — only this time in the Lounge!

We’ll still get the same great food, and the same great service, only with more room to move around!

Everyone is invited to join us… come network and make new friends. Don’t forget your biz cards!

TAZZU Networking Event

Date: Wednesday, January 30th
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Milestones Yaletown - 1109 Hamilton Street* (Vancouver)
* public pay parking around back

>> MAP
>> DINNER MENU

PLEASE NOTE: We’ll be seated in Milestones Lounge which seats about 30 people, first to RSVP are IN!

We hope to hear from you, and see you there!

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The 2nd Vancouver Facebook Developer Garage

Vancouver Facebook Developers' GarageOur good friend Gerald Bauer is organizing the 2nd Vancouver’s Facebook Developers (& Designers) Garage event at the Vancouver’s film school. The event will take place in Theatre 1 accessible from the main foyer. Reception will be in place to assist all guests.

When: Monday, January 28, 2008 5:30 PM

Where:
Vancouver Film School
420 Homer Street
Vancouver, British Columbia

Visit Vancouver’s Developers Facebook Group and Yahoo Upcoming Events

I attended the previous event and after viewing few quite amazing (and not so amazing) presentations I got to meet some really wonderful people such as Boris Mann, Roland Tanglao, Miss 604, my great business associate Ash Sanieyan, and of course Gerald himself. So this event will not only contribute to your development knowledge, but also a great opportunity to meet some really good people in the Vancouver’s technology and business community.

I will be there taking some pictures and blogging. Let’s see what our town’s developers have been cooking up lately.

Facebook probably has more than 60 million users by now. Some of us spend at least 15 minutes or more there, so it is part of our everyday life. Facebook is also a neat framework for developing web applications, and I know quite a number of developers who develop for Facebook including Gerald, Ash and myself (shameless self promotion!)

Btw: this is Gerald’s website. He is a very experienced Ruby on Rails developer and he has been very active brining the community of Ruby developers together, and Tazzu is gladly collaborating to spread the word. :)

Facebook Developer Garage Vancouver

Photography by KK+

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