I can’t find the online essay I once read about the nature of the relationship between the incredibly tough-to-please King of All Cosmos and the eager-to-please Prince from the quirky videogame Katamari Damacy, but I did find this Jacob Chabot comic showing the King asking the Prince to roll him up some dinner:
If you’d like to work at a leading internet company that provides services to thousands of ISPs and hosting services, registers one in ten of the big top-level domains, just bought an email company and is located in one of the niftier parts of Toronto, you’re in luck.
Here’s what we’re looking for. Wherever I could find an online job description, I’ve provided a link.
The Job Fair will be held at No Regrets restaurant on 42 Mowat Street, which is in the Liberty Village/Carpet Factory district near the corner of King and Dufferin Streets on Wednesday, February 15th and Thursday, February 16th between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.. Bring your resume, dress nicely and come on down!
Here’s a great photo that Ross took while walking about San Francisco on Sunday afternoon. For those of you not familiar with the city, it’s of the Transamerica Pyramid — probably the most recognizable piece of local architecture after the Golden Gate Bridge — as seen from Coit Tower.
Sunday’s meetup was a success — at peak, we were 16 in total, all having good food, good beer and great conversation. My thanks to everyone who came, and special thanks to Tara Hunt for helping me put the whole thing together!
Ross took pictures of the event, covering both the gathering inside 21st Amendment and the accordion performance outside. Thanks, Ross! I put the photos in an album, which you can view in album or slideshow format.
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Tara wasn’t actually in town to attend the event, but Chris Messina, pictured below, stood in for her and also promoted the event locally. Thanks, Chris!
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Back when I was an indie consultant writing custom software for clients, I used to use the expression “launch the pig!” to refer to finishing the process of writing the software and giving it to the customer. I just found some photos that cover a literal pig launch:
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I have no idea when these photos were taken or who took them (I found them on an obscure private file-sharing site), but they depict the launching of a pig.
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These photos are part of a series which you can see either clicking on any of the photos or clicking here.
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In case you were wondering, the photos show the pig emerging from the launch unscathed:
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bars. Yum.
And yes, the actual content of
the Developer
Relations Conference has been not only informative, but in
some cases, downright inspiring, especially the presentation from the
dude from O’Reilly titled Developers Just Want to Have Fun. I’ve been
taking notes for all the sessions I’ve managed to catch and will post
them once I’ve formatted and cleaned them up a bit.
So far, the Evans Data Corporation’s Developer Relations Conference has been quite good — information-rich presentations delivered by good speakers to a interesting and varied crowd — but I’ll save all the techie/marketing stuff for the technical blog, The Farm. I’m going to report on the more touchy-feely stuff here so as not to bore my not-so-technical readers to tears.
Rather than have lunch in some stuffy hotel conference dining room, they herded us outside to this lovely tent adjoining the hotel. In case you were wondering, it’s springlike (about 14 degrees C) and sunny in San Francisco today. Here’s a photo of the tent:
I was expecting the standard salad-chicken-vanilla cake fare, but was pleasantly surprised by what we actually got:
This is far better than any other conference fare I’ve ever been served. Mind you, I’m typically at developer cons, and food isn’t often high on the priority list, other than having plenty. I’m sure that “suitier” conferences have food on this level or better, but I’m a grateful geek for getting the “Food Network” treatment here. I salute Evans Data with a filet mignon on a flaming sword for the lunch.