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Oh, we’re not done campin’ just yet.

Tonight at No Regrets Restaurant and Cafe (42 Mowat Street) at 6:30 p.m., DemoCamp — Accordion City’s monthly show-and-tell session for its high-tech community — returns for its 12th session! There seems to be a bit of excitement about this one — I can see on the DemoCamp 12 wiki page that 135 people have signed up to attend.

We’ve worked out some slight changes to the DemoCamp format, allowing for shorter presentations for those with smaller or still-in-progress projects as well as longer, pre-screened-for-quality projects because we want to make sure that the Monday night you’ve given up is worth it. As always, your feedback is important — if you like or don’t like something about DemoCamp, please let me or David or Jay know.

Tonight’s presentation topics:

• Updates! Several former presenters talks about what’s been happening with their projects since they made their presentations.
• Albert Lai talks about what’s happening with BubbleShare since their acquisition.
• Will Pate talks about the Flock web browser.
• Mike Beltzner talks about distributed development, Mozilla style.

Looking forward to this one — see you tonight!

Here’s a photo that I’m posting for the amusement of Andy Ramoniac, my brother from another mother and fellow fan of Aqua Teen Hunger Force…

(If you don’t get the joke, see this article.)

You’d think that Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, would’ve spent some of his hefty salary to replace some worn-out clothes for his many public appearances, but noooooo….

Visiting holy shrines calls for holey footwear.

Perhaps he’s setting a good example by not being an ostentatious dresser, but dude, get some new socks.

Okay, so now I have confirmation: Deenster’s baby’s name is Gabriel David Maxwell Stevenson and not Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K, as I had assumed earlier. Good thing too — having a name like “Urhines” (I believe it’s meant to be pronounced “Your Highness”) would give any kid some kind of complex.

Once again, congrats to the new parents! Now the adventure begins…

Actual crib soon to be occupied by Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K.

I just heard that Deenster gave birth to a healthy 8-pound baby boy. Rumour has it that his name is Gabriel, but until I hear actual confirmation, I shall assume that his name is Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K.

Congrats to the Deenster and Kiff, and welcome to the world, Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K!

That’s right, I’ve got even more books for sale. This set is a mish-mash of computer books — some are mine, some are from a company for whom I worked in 2002 that went under. As with the other books for sale I mentioned today, all are going for $5 each. I’d rather they went to a good home than the recycler.

Want any of ’em? Email me at joey@joeydevilla.com.

Python Essential Reference, Second Edition by David M. Beazley [Paperback][New Riders 2001]

Beginning PHP 4 by Wankyu Choi et. al. [Paperback][Wrox 2000]

Professional PHP Programming by Jesus Castagnetto et. al. [Paperback][Wrox 1999]

Instant SQL programming by Joe Celko [Paperback][Wrox 1995]

Wireless Web Development with PHP and WAP and Ray Rischpater [Paperback][Apress 2001]

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition by David Flanagan [Paperback][O’Reilly 2002]

Palm Database Programming: The Complete Developer’s Guide by Eric Giguere [Paperback][Wiley 1999]

Palm OS Programming from the Ground Up by Robert Mykland [Paperback][Osborne 2000]

Programming Web Services with XML-RPC by Simon St. Laurent et. al. [Paperback][O’Reilly 2001]

Rapid Application Development with Mozilla by Nigel McFarlane [Paperback][Prentice-Hall 2004]

C# Design Patterns: A Tutorial by James W. Cooper [Paperback][Addison-Wesley 2003]

Microsoft ADO.NET by David Sceppa [Hardcover][Microsoft 2002]

Programming C# by Jesse Liberty (here’s the Amazon link to the latest edition) [Paperback][O’Reilly 2001]

That’s right, there are even more books for sale from my deadbeat ex-housemate’s collection. This installment covers his C++ books plus a couple of extra security books I found; an earlier installment covers Java books, and an even earlier one covers information security and cryptography books.

Want any of them? They’re a mere $5. Come pick ’em up (I’m in the High Park area of Toronto), or pay for shipping and I’ll send them to you. Email me at joey@joeydevilla.com.

C++ Books

The Waite Group’s C++ How-To by Kalev et. al. [Paperback][Waite 1999]

C++ Primer, Third Edition by Stanley B. Lippman abd Josee Lajoie [Paperback][Addison-Wesley 1998]

C++ from Scratch by Jesse Liberty [Paperback][Que 1999]

The C++ Standard Library from Scratch by Pablo Halpern [Que 2000]

Using C++ by Rob McGregor [Paperback][Que 1999]

More Security Books

Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions [First Edition] (here’s the Amazon link to the second edition) by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz [Paperback][McGraw-Hill 1999]

Hack Attacks Revealed by John Chirillo [Paperback][Wiley 2001]