WordCamp Portland – Round 3

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One of my favorite WordCamp events each year is always the one up in Portland. No, not just because they had kegs of beer just inside the front door. Although that certainly didn’t suck. Their local WordPress community is awesome and invited in us outsiders with open arms. By the end of the first weekend [...]

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WordPress meetup date change

A funny thing happened while planning WordPress meetup. Turns out, I managed to plan it for a time when several of the WordPress peeps in Vegas will be out of town for WordCamp San Francisco. Oopsy. After a quick bit of rearranging, we are now scheduled for Wednesday, August 10th, 7pm – 9pm at The [...]

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WordPress Meetup Hits Vegas!

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Last week while attending my first Vegas Jelly event at The Beat Coffeehouse, I knew immediately that I had found what I’ve been trying to find for a long time; a place to host a regular WordPress meetup group. After exchanging a couple emails with the owner, I knew we were in business. Food, beer, [...]

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Hire an assistant. Now!

When we started the company, there were three of us. The other two guys did the bulk of the design/development and I did some development, but mostly I ran the business. I spoke with all prospects, I managed all projects, dealt with accounting… all of it. Then earlier this year, one of those guys left [...]

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Las Vegas tech events on the rise!

When I organized the first WordCamp Las Vegas event back in January 2009, I was really hoping to parlay the excitement in to an ongoing series of tech events. It worked for a while. We started up a Beer n Blog event that went strong for a while, but then turned in to Beer, hold [...]

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Bookmarks Theme for WordPress

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Back in the day I used del.icio.us for storing public bookmarks. It was an easy enough system to use, but two things always troubled me; If they change layout or functionality, I had to just accept it, and if they shut down, all my content goes with it. Ultimately what I wanted was my own [...]

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