March 09, 2005
On the second Raleigh/Cary Bloggers Meetup
The second Raleigh/Cary Bloggers meetup went down earlier this evening.
Present were Dave Johnson, Rick Ross, and myself - an impressive concentration Java geeks if I've ever seen one. Sparse though the crowd may have been, there was no shortage of excellent conversation.
We convened at 6:30 at Cafe Cyclo (where, unfortunately [or perhaps not], the wi-fi didn't flow quite as freely as the wine, coffee, and beer) and talked for slightly more than three hours.
Topics included:
- many things Java
- Javalobby and Roller
- Dave's upcoming book: Blogs, Wikis, and Feeds In Action
- PHP as a movement
- cpanel and other types of web administration software
- the b2evolution PHP multi-user blogging engine
- 20Q, a really interesting sounding kids' toy
- Blogging Carnivals
- The Internet Search Engines FAQ and search engine optimization
and many more that I can't recall off the top of my head.
Dave and I wondered aloud on perhaps making the Raleigh/Cary meetup a monthly event (as opposed to weekly), given the level of interest thus far, and also on possibly moving the meetings to Wednesday. Comments on these matters would be greatly appreciated.
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Posted by Josh Staiger at 01:10 AM