{"id":298,"date":"2006-08-05T21:12:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T04:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=298"},"modified":"2006-08-05T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T04:25:33","slug":"wordcamp-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wordcamp-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended WordCamp 2006<\/a> today. It was free but I think part of the unwritten agreement is that attendant bloggers are required to write something about it.<\/p>\n

WordCamp brought together a whole bunch of folks, mostly from the San Francisco Bay area, many of whom are hyper-passionate about blogging (usually with WordPress<\/a>) and new media and future of communication and social networking. To be honest, a lot of it was a bit high level for my taste. I started this blog as a research journal that I decided to make public just in case someone else thought the same stuff was interesting. But the conference did remind me that I need to take the proverbial plunge and upgrade the various blogs on this site to the WordPress 2.0 series, if for no other reason than I will be able to find better themes for 2.0. <\/p>\n

I also need to look more carefully at various plugins offered for the WordPress system. The more avid users were insistent that there is already a plugin for just about everything. This makes me want to hunt for a plugin that can automatically properly HTML-ize and colorize C code as I occasionally need to do. Further, much was made of WordPress Widgets<\/a>. The end goal of all this is to let bloggers do powerful things without having to learn much<\/em>, if anything, about hacking the underlying PHP\/CSS\/XHTML\/AJAX\/whatever<\/em>. This is the boat I always find myself in– even though I fancy myself a reasonably technically savvy individual, normally willing to learn new techs, I simply don’t care to learn much about web programming. I just want this stuff to work. That way, I can devote more time to my specialty: figuring out how to make multimedia tech just work<\/em> for Linux users.<\/p>\n

My personal favorite presentation was about using WordPress as a general content management system (CMS)<\/a>. I have been wanting to do just that since WordPress is solid, easy to use, and already has a familiar ring to it. It turns out that it is feasible, though maybe with a little work, to use WP as a CMS on a site where a traditional blog layout is not the most conducive for organizing the information.<\/p>\n

I was in the minority as a non-laptop-carrier. An inordinate number of laptop users were on Apple hardware. It’s seductive, that’s for certain. I don’t know if I saw any Linux laptops, unless they were cleverly disguised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I did with my Saturday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t