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We’re booked to run our third demo camp on Wednesday Nov 7th, once again at the Albion. Please sign up here to attend and come out and check it out. If you’re interested in demo’ing, contact me asap.

Bryan and I demo’d the horribly named itsaFramework at DemoCampToronto14 last night. Of course I forgot to mention it’s name or website until the absolute last question when someone asked “does it have a name?”. There’s a good reason I have nothing to do with marketing.

There’s basically no information at the site above. If people are looking for more information, just contact me. If there’s a lot of requests for info then we’ll get a wiki or something available.

Thanks again to David, Jay and the entire TorCamp crew for putting on the event and allowing us to demo.

When I recently moved back to a *nix environment, I started where I was most familiar. That was Fedora Core since I was previously a Red Hat user. I found it a tad painful and quickly gave ubuntu a test run and I’ve been happily using it for a while now. My original plan, however, was to get onto a bsd variant. I’ve only dabbled with pc-bsd and haven’t had much time for more.

I’m not really in the mood to make another OS change and this article comparing ubuntu to pc-bsd isn’t helping. I have to agree with everything in here from my limited trials, especially the responsiveness. Lately I’m finding my windows image on vmware painfully slow as well.

Crap, time for another change?

I have to say this. The second thing I noticed about the list for the upcoming, and sold out!, DemoCampToronto is that if you remove my demo from that list then 1/2 of the demo’s have already presented at DemoCampGuelph! I love that! I think there’s always an assumption that us little towns play second fiddle. It’s exciting to see that not only are we getting the same caliber of demo’s as the big city boys but in some cases we’re getting to see them first! If you haven’t come out to a DemoCampGuelph then get yer arse to the next one!

So are we the DemoCamp ‘farm system’? I’m happy with that if it means we continue to get the level of demo’s we seen and we get to see them first.

If you haven’t come out to a DemoCampGuelph, then sign up for the next one here. Yes, we still haven’t picked a date for it yet, details, details….

I applied a while back to demo at the next DemoCampToronto. David mentioned that there was a lot of applicants to demo so I put it out of my mind, pretty much assuming I wouldn’t be demo’ing. According to this, I was selected to demo, AND the event is ’sold out’. The only reason I know this is from an email someone sent me after seeing me on that list.

Oh man, I think this means I need to get a demo together. Um…and the actual framework…..Looking at the list of demo’s, I have no idea how I got selected. Those other apps sounds fancy.

5 minutes, 300 people, oy…..

Our site started out as a single page as a bit of a stop gap. It’s growing on me and others don’t seem to mind it either. Steve submitted the site full single and it’s the current featured site.

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