Scott Huntley presents on three nerdy topics at WordCamp Sydney. What is Pherlog and can you get a WP powered one? Who is WordPress' sibling? Can you lose your blog in your couch cushions?
Three Incredibly Nerdy But Ultimately Pointless Topics - Scott HuntleyWordCamp Sydney
In this presentation, Scott's going to talk about three incredibly cool and nerdtastic things, which ultimately aren't of much use. What's the smallest computer that can run WordPress, and can you lose your blog in your sofa cushions?
Does WordPress have a sibling, and just who is this mysterious member of the family?
Have you ever wanted a Pherlog - not a Phlog - a Pherlog, and what's everyone's favourite rodent?
And is exploring weird and crazy off-the-wall topics truly a waste of time, or will you learn something useful after all?
How much should grammar matter to you, as a parent blogger? Presented to attendees at the BConnected Conference, held in Gatineau-Ottawa on May 2, 2015.
Three Incredibly Nerdy But Ultimately Pointless Topics - Scott HuntleyWordCamp Sydney
In this presentation, Scott's going to talk about three incredibly cool and nerdtastic things, which ultimately aren't of much use. What's the smallest computer that can run WordPress, and can you lose your blog in your sofa cushions?
Does WordPress have a sibling, and just who is this mysterious member of the family?
Have you ever wanted a Pherlog - not a Phlog - a Pherlog, and what's everyone's favourite rodent?
And is exploring weird and crazy off-the-wall topics truly a waste of time, or will you learn something useful after all?
How much should grammar matter to you, as a parent blogger? Presented to attendees at the BConnected Conference, held in Gatineau-Ottawa on May 2, 2015.
My slides from Moodle Moot Australia 2015. I discuss ideas about how we can use the Internet of Things to enhance eLearning. I discuss my experiences in building a wearable that displayed information from Moodle.
Libraries have been places of discovery and learning for a long time, but they are now taking it a step further, thanks to the makerspace movement, by providing an initial spark for ideas that may grow into an intellectual flame down the road. A makerspace is a collaborative learning environment where people of all ages and with common interests (e.g., science, technology, engineering, arts, and math — STEAM) can meet, socialize and/or collaborate while sharing innovative ideas and learning new skills. People can now visit their local library makerspace and gain hands-on experiences with emerging technologies that they probably do not have access to otherwise. Lifelong learning is a vital component for the continued success of libraries and makerspaces are just another aspect helping to make all this happen. In this webinar,
+ Learn how to create a library makerspace on little to no budget.
+ Discover the process/resources used to maintain an engaging makerspace that will thrive for many years.
+ Understand wholeheartedly that the library makerspace is a perfect place to share emerging technologies with patrons, so that they can become well-informed citizens and responsible users of technology.
+ Gain an appreciation as to what other libraries are doing in this new exciting space.
+ Acquire numerous programming ideas to help foster creativity and learning.
+ Survey the emerging technology landscape for new learning prospects to include in your makerspace.
+ Create a growing “Rolodex” of opportunities for partnerships to help boost your makerspace outreach.
Outrageous ideas for Graph Databases
Almost every graph database vendor raised money in 2021. I am glad they did, because they are going to need the money. Our current Graph Databases are terrible and need a lot of work. There I said it. It's the ugly truth in our little niche industry. That's why despite waiting for over a decade for the "Year of the Graph" to come we still haven't set the world on fire. Graph databases can be painfully slow, they can't handle non-graph workloads, their APIs are clunky, their query languages are either hard to learn or hard to scale. Most graph projects require expert shepherding to succeed. 80% of the work takes 20% of the time, but that last 20% takes forever. The graph database vendors optimize for new users, not grizzly veterans. They optimize for sales not solutions. Come listen to a Rant by an industry OG on where we could go from here if we took the time to listen to the users that haven't given up on us yet.
The Puppet Community: Current State and Future PlansPuppet
This session will start with a look at the community today. I will use our community metrics to take a look at all kinds of data about pull requests, bugs, mailing lists, IRC and more. In addition to the numbers, I'll also talk about some of our top contributors. We also have much to do to make the community better. I'll be presenting my plans for improvements that we'll be making to the Puppet community.
Dawn Foster
Community Lead, Puppet Labs
Dawn Foster is the Community Lead for the Puppet Community at Puppet Labs. She has more than 18 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in community building, community management, open source software, market research, RSS and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities. Past jobs include work at Intel and Jive Software among others.
The Puppet Community: Current State and Future PlansDawn Foster
This session starts with a look at the Puppet community today. I use our community metrics to take a look at all kinds of data about pull requests, bugs, mailing lists, IRC and more. In addition to the numbers, I'll also talk about some of our top contributors. We also have much to do to make the community better, so we'll talk about some plans for improvements that we'll be making to the Puppet community.
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This session is about getting yourself ready for the future, whatever it may bring. Change is not something that we usually excel at in technical communications.
If we don’t update our thinking, content and methods, each new wave of technology puts us yet another step behind the curve. Even though tablets and smart phones have reached near ubiquity with professional users, most organisations do not have their people, processes, platforms or content ready for mobile delivery. Many are not even internet-ready. Today we’re bombarded by announcements of new content creation and consumption technologies that are wearable, social, dynamic or embedded directly in products.
Although we can talk about how to do something about it, before our content and processes can change, we must change. We must address what is actually holding us back: how we think about our content in the first place.
This session will provide a new and inspiring perspective on how you can and must work with content to be ready for the future. We’ll look at updating our processes, structures and the biases and habits that surround them.
From Moodle Moot New Zealand 2019, my slides for my presentation. I use photos I took of good design during my travels on the various transit systems in Tokyo. I have related these to concepts we should consider when designing our training materials.
My slides from Moodle Moot Australia 2015. I discuss ideas about how we can use the Internet of Things to enhance eLearning. I discuss my experiences in building a wearable that displayed information from Moodle.
Libraries have been places of discovery and learning for a long time, but they are now taking it a step further, thanks to the makerspace movement, by providing an initial spark for ideas that may grow into an intellectual flame down the road. A makerspace is a collaborative learning environment where people of all ages and with common interests (e.g., science, technology, engineering, arts, and math — STEAM) can meet, socialize and/or collaborate while sharing innovative ideas and learning new skills. People can now visit their local library makerspace and gain hands-on experiences with emerging technologies that they probably do not have access to otherwise. Lifelong learning is a vital component for the continued success of libraries and makerspaces are just another aspect helping to make all this happen. In this webinar,
+ Learn how to create a library makerspace on little to no budget.
+ Discover the process/resources used to maintain an engaging makerspace that will thrive for many years.
+ Understand wholeheartedly that the library makerspace is a perfect place to share emerging technologies with patrons, so that they can become well-informed citizens and responsible users of technology.
+ Gain an appreciation as to what other libraries are doing in this new exciting space.
+ Acquire numerous programming ideas to help foster creativity and learning.
+ Survey the emerging technology landscape for new learning prospects to include in your makerspace.
+ Create a growing “Rolodex” of opportunities for partnerships to help boost your makerspace outreach.
Outrageous ideas for Graph Databases
Almost every graph database vendor raised money in 2021. I am glad they did, because they are going to need the money. Our current Graph Databases are terrible and need a lot of work. There I said it. It's the ugly truth in our little niche industry. That's why despite waiting for over a decade for the "Year of the Graph" to come we still haven't set the world on fire. Graph databases can be painfully slow, they can't handle non-graph workloads, their APIs are clunky, their query languages are either hard to learn or hard to scale. Most graph projects require expert shepherding to succeed. 80% of the work takes 20% of the time, but that last 20% takes forever. The graph database vendors optimize for new users, not grizzly veterans. They optimize for sales not solutions. Come listen to a Rant by an industry OG on where we could go from here if we took the time to listen to the users that haven't given up on us yet.
The Puppet Community: Current State and Future PlansPuppet
This session will start with a look at the community today. I will use our community metrics to take a look at all kinds of data about pull requests, bugs, mailing lists, IRC and more. In addition to the numbers, I'll also talk about some of our top contributors. We also have much to do to make the community better. I'll be presenting my plans for improvements that we'll be making to the Puppet community.
Dawn Foster
Community Lead, Puppet Labs
Dawn Foster is the Community Lead for the Puppet Community at Puppet Labs. She has more than 18 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in community building, community management, open source software, market research, RSS and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities. Past jobs include work at Intel and Jive Software among others.
The Puppet Community: Current State and Future PlansDawn Foster
This session starts with a look at the Puppet community today. I use our community metrics to take a look at all kinds of data about pull requests, bugs, mailing lists, IRC and more. In addition to the numbers, I'll also talk about some of our top contributors. We also have much to do to make the community better, so we'll talk about some plans for improvements that we'll be making to the Puppet community.
Rejigging your mindset for the future of content work [ISTC13]Noz Urbina
This session is about getting yourself ready for the future, whatever it may bring. Change is not something that we usually excel at in technical communications.
If we don’t update our thinking, content and methods, each new wave of technology puts us yet another step behind the curve. Even though tablets and smart phones have reached near ubiquity with professional users, most organisations do not have their people, processes, platforms or content ready for mobile delivery. Many are not even internet-ready. Today we’re bombarded by announcements of new content creation and consumption technologies that are wearable, social, dynamic or embedded directly in products.
Although we can talk about how to do something about it, before our content and processes can change, we must change. We must address what is actually holding us back: how we think about our content in the first place.
This session will provide a new and inspiring perspective on how you can and must work with content to be ready for the future. We’ll look at updating our processes, structures and the biases and habits that surround them.
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A tongue-in-cheek speech I gave for #SydPHP's 20 Years of PHP celebration. I advocated for PHP developers to get involved in open-source LMS projects by "borrowing" from great speeches.
From my presentation when I walked the group through installing WordPress on Amazon Web Services. This presentation is really just a walk through of existing tutorials, but you can find the links I used in it.
WordPress Parramatta Meetup, 7 October 2014: WCSyd Wrapup. This presentation outlined some of the highlights from WordCamp Sydney, which was held Sep 27 & 28.
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WCSYD: Three Incredibly Nerdy (But Ultimately Pointless) Topics
1. Three Incredibly Nerdy
(But Ultimately Pointless)
Topics
by Scott Huntley
WordCamp Sydney 2016
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
2. Hey, who am I?
I’m Scott
@kshuntley@kshuntley#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
3. Hey, who am I?
I’m Scott
(or Kenneth? - see scott.technology/name)
@kshuntley@kshuntley#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
4. Hey, who am I?
I’m Scott
(or Kenneth? - see scott.technology/name)
I work for as a Consultant/Trainer for Pukunui Technology, an LMS
hosting company
Day to day, I use Moodle which is not WordPress
@kshuntley@kshuntley#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
5. Hey, who am I?
I used to work at TAFE NSW
I used to teach WordPress
I am dreamer
I spend far too much time thinking about the world that could have been
I am very good at bad Photoshop.
@kshuntley#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
6. So what’s the point of this exercise?
Well, in this presentation, I’m going to talk about three incredibly cool
and nerdtastic things.
They’re not very practical though.
But maybe by exploring crazy off-the-wall topics, we might learn
something useful after all.
Note: You will not learn something useful after all.
@kshuntley#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
7. How am I going to keep on track?
I like to waffle.
In fact, if I could, I’d talk to you now for 10 minutes on waffles.
I have 30 minutes, give or take, and 3 topics
Math tells me I should spend 10 minutes on each topic
To keep to that schedule:
The slides are going to progress automatically
Once the slide changes, I’ll start talking to the new slide
@kshuntley#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
Image: Parkerman & Christie from San Diego, USA - Crispy Waffles with Strawberries, CC BY 2.0,
8. Topic One:
Can you use WordPress
to run your pherlog?
@kshuntley#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
10. “What the hell is Gopher?”
@kshuntley
You don’t remember Gopher?
It was what all the cool kids used before the Web.
And by “cool kids”, I’m specifically referring to all of us
in the high school Dungeons and Dragons Club.
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
12. Do Gopher clients still exist?
@kshuntley
Yes!
You used to be able to connect to Gopher using any
browser. Not any more.
I actually had to download Lynx to
connect to Gopher sites.
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
17. Can you power your pherlog using WordPress?
@kshuntley
Well… in theory…
Step one, get a gopher server up and
running (see the past two slides)
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
18. Can you power your pherlog using WordPress?
@kshuntley
The project I wanted to implement is called WP2GOPHER.
A single PHP file that will connect to your WordPress blog’s
MySQL, extract the posts, and write them into a Gopher file.
Sounds incredibly easy to implement.
After, it’s fairly recent (Mar 27, 2008)
Find out more at gopher://gopher.4d2.org/1/phlog/page1 .
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
20. How can WordPress have any relatives?
@kshuntley
WordPress was forked in 2003 from b2/cafelog.
I know this because Wikipedia tells me so.
I would say that makes b2/cafelog the parent of
WordPress
Does WordPress have any other relations?
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
21. A forgotten sibling?
@kshuntley
b2evolution was forked in 2003 from b2/cafelog.
I know this because Wikipedia tells me so.
I suppose that would make b2/cafelog the parent of b2evolution
This would make b2evolution the sibling of WordPress.
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
22. Comparison Time
@kshuntley
Open Source (GNU GPLv2)
Latest Version: 6.7.3 (May 29)
Plugins: 224 (on the official site)
Skins: 768 (on the official site)
Listen to François deliver “The State of the Evolution”
Powers about 0.1% of the web
Open Source (GNU GPLv2)
Latest Version: 4.6.1 (Sep 7)
Plugins: 46,670 (on the official site)
Themes: Difficult to determine - 4,119 “Latest”
Listen to Matt deliver “The State of the Word”
Powers about 26.4% of the web
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
29. Stop picking on me!
@kshuntley
Reading the b2Evolution site, a two things stand out:
● Their focus remains on being a blogging platform
● Most of their features are blogging related
● They know they are in WordPress’ shadow
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
30. Topic Three:
Can you use lose WordPress
in your sofa cushions?
@kshuntley#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
31. WordPress on the Raspberry Pi
@kshuntley
“Okay, that’s kinda small.
But I couldn’t lose it in my sofa
cushions.
I mean, you still gotta plug it in
and stuff.”
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
32. WordPress on the Raspberry Pi Zero with a Pi Zero IoT Hat
@kshuntley
“Okay, I could lose that in the sofa
cushions.
But what’s the point?”
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
33. “What’s the point?”
@kshuntley
The point is this is changing everything.
It’s the perfect storm people! It’s Crowdfunding meeting the Shenzhen
AliBaba machine creating cheap Single Board Computers.
Computers are being distributed on magazine covers.
Computers are disposable now.
You could put computers in vending machines now.
This should be blowing your mind!
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
34. Let’s put it this way
@kshuntley
Ship’s Com
puter
Ship’sComputer
Ship’s
Computer
Ship’s
Computer
Ship’sComputer
Ship’s
Computer
Ship’sComputer
Ship’s
Computer
Ship’s
Computer
Ship’s
Computer
Ship’sComputer
Ship’s
Computer
What they told
us the future
will be.
What the
future will be.
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
35. “I still don’t get it.” and/or “Big deal, I already know this”
@kshuntley
Okay, think about this:
How much did your first computer cost?
That first one you took to Uni or TAFE, how ever many years ago it was that you pretend wasn’t really that long
ago, but probably was longer than you’d like to admit, OMAG Am I over 40?
Raspberry Pi Zero was the $5 computer
It actually was the £5 computer
You still had to buy all the special bits and pieces
Pine A64 is $15 with a lot more guts
Indiegogo campaign for a $1 computer
The hardware will be cheap enough that we can teach programming to any kid on the planet.
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
37. Bringing it all back together...
@kshuntley#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
38. Did I just completely waste 30 minutes?
@kshuntley
I did say I was a dreamer…
I suppose I just like to imagine
what could have been...
#WCSyd #Pointless3 @kshuntley
39. Did I just completely waste 30 minutes?
@kshuntley
...like an alternate reality where
we’re all discussing Pherlogs...
#WCSyd #pherlog #LongLiveTheGopher @kshuntley
40. Did I just completely waste 30 minutes?
...at B2ECamp Sydney...
@kshuntley#B@ECampSyd #b2Evo #pherlog #LongLiveTheGopher @kshuntley
41. Did I just completely waste 30 minutes?
...but I’ve got to stop by the vending
machine because I’ve lost my computer.
@kshuntley#B2ECampSyd #b2evo #pherlog #LongLiveTheGopher #GopherPi #RasberryEvolution #COBOLDOTNET @kshuntley
42. Continue the conversation...
In this reality:
Email: scott@pukunui.com
Twitter: @kshuntley
Web: scott.technology
In
another reality:
ICQ
:
74325126
Identi.ca: kshuntley
gopher.scott.technologyusenet:
alt.b2ecam
p.sydney.pherlog.pherlog.pherlog
#B2ECampSyd #b2evo #pherlog #LongLiveTheGopher #GopherPi #ImStillDoingMySlidesOnSundayAM alt.b2ecamp.sydney.pherlog.pherlog.pherlog