by stern on September 6, 2010
Our daughter Elana has started her gap year in Israel. She’s blogging her adventures. Combined with Skype, phone calls, and updates from the program on Facebook, give us a great view into what’s going on 6,000 miles away.
Echoing the “Anatevka” scene (“You’re going to America? I have a cousin in Chicago”) that closes Fiddler on the Roof, the local falafel guy used to work at our kosher pizza place here in town. Elana’s realizing that I wasn’t kidding when I made up the three rules of being Israeli: We did it better, you’re wrong, and there is no line.
The over/under on hummus being a staple of her diet is 4 weeks. But it’s great following the action online.
by stern on August 31, 2010
I’ll be continuing my WordCamp speaking tour at WordCamp Philadelphia on October 30th. I’m giving the latest version of Parsing Strange, my WP internals talk that dissects URL parsing, SQL generation and user-serviceable parts you might run into. With custom page types and custom taxonomies gaining interest and traction in the WordPress community, this talk is a good backgrounder to the mechanics of joining tables representing social (or other) graphs, and selecting relevant content that you want to be displayed as a result.
Professional WordPress co-author Brad Williams is organizing, and the speaker slate covers an incredible range of topics. It’s the best $20 you can spend — you’ll be getting a high-speed, in-depth technical potpourri for about $3 an hour, or less than you’d spend drinking Starbucks that whole time. Just remember that it’s in Philadelphia, so while there are no bad questions, there are answers that involve having a D-cell thrown at your head.
