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gracias

Fernanda Valdes — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:35:41 -0500

Hi, thanks a lot becouse I shared this information with friends and users teaching themselves, or by anyone teaching a class. like said mashadutoit

Hola que tal, este post fue genial porque lo use par acompartirlo con compañeros de la UBA y personas que estaban interesadas en reapsar algunos datos sobre programación. Yo trabajo con tecnología, educación y videojuegos y me fue muy util. saludos desde argentina y colombia.

self promotion

mashadutoit — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:56:11 -0500

Thanks these are very useful.

I've put many of my beginner level lessons for HTML, CSS and Flash online at www.bravemouse.com

I am very busy at the moment, but as soon as I have time I'll be putting up an Intro to Actionscript

The site can be used either by individual users teaching themselves, or by anyone teaching a class.

Do you use delicious? I find it such a fabulous way to share links.

Useful

Vered — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:11:04 -0500

What a useful collection of links and resources. Thank you.

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My sympathy

mashadutoit — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:43:31 -0500

And yes - the story of your grief never seems to come to an end.

My mother died about four years ago and I still have so many painful thoughts, and moments when I feel as though I'm not healing. Does one heal?

My mother was also very sick, and I think no one who has not experienced it, can know how complicated and mixed up things can be. Its tough to look after a sick person. It goes on and on and on. I feel a lot of guilt because I did not measure up to the person I thought I could be in that situation. I learnt a lot about myself, and a lot of it was not good. Its difficult to get past the guilt.

You learn about your siblings, too. I also experienced a similar drama with people fighting when you would have thought they would pull together and be supportive.

One big lesson I learnt was that you cannot control how things happen. And you should not feel guilty because of that. You just have to accept what actually happened and be kind to yourself and those around you. You cannot afford to take on responsibility for what happened. In the end, you were with her, and gave her your love and that is the most important thing.

When I'm feeling at my worst, and beating myself up - I always try to think what my mother would have told me. Would she have blamed me, or criticized me for the way things went? No way! She would just give me love. So why punish myself, when she would forgive me?

Choice

Melanie Nelson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:41:50 -0600

As we both noted in our e-mails to each other, I think it boils down to choice. I had some trouble with MT installation, but I also had trouble with WP installation. I chose WP b/c I knew enough other people using WP to get help. Had I had the resources you pointed out (and I did do a search at the time and found very little, certainly not the types of sites you pointed out), I may have gone another way. I do like the idea of having all my blogs in one dashboard. ;)

Melanie
Contributing Editor at BlogHer.com (Web/Tech)
Blogging Basics 101
Bloggy Giveaways

Thanks for the review, Melanie!

Skye — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:25:07 -0600

It's good to see Movable Type getting some attention, especially since it's now shifted back to being more open and available to everyone.

A couple of followup comments:

I have no idea why the guys from SmartAlyx had such a time installing Movable Type, that hasn't been my experience at all. I'm sure you can find plenty of posts out there where people have been frustrated with installing or upgrading WordPress as well - that's just the nature of software. There is actually a Quick Start guide to installing Movable Type: http://movabletype.org/documentation/installation/quick-start.html.

In the year since I wrote the post you referenced, "Six Apart Doesn't Want Me to Use or Recommend Movable Type," the theme selection has increased dramatically, and I think it's only going to get better from here. If you're going to want a custom blog design anyway, which many people end up wanting, having only a couple of dozen themes to choose from up front is probably plenty to start with. Many of the available themes can even be applied without downloading and uploading any files, using the StyleCatcher plugin which is included with Movable Type.

And interestingly, a few of the other issues I complained about bothered other people in the community as well, especially the image wrapping code. So Six Apart made a couple of improvements in further versions - and then people in the community jumped in and wrote tutorials for how to override the default behaviors as well.

Cheers,
Skye
a.k.a. The Princess

I find it odd that there is

Headless Mom — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:56:53 -0600

I find it odd that there is nothing in the LA area. Any thoughts?

AMAZING!

zaellen — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:08:09 -0600

Thanks so much for this Melanie!!! Now to figure out how many I can get away with attending (ie. affordability, time away from kids, etc.). I so appreciate having a schedule for planning for the year :) Like Virginia, I'll be printing out and hanging in my office...

Ellen

Thanks for updating the list!

Melanie Nelson — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:19:35 -0600

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has been updating with other conferences! Thanks!

Melanie
Blogging Basics 101
Bloggy Giveaways
Don't Try This at Home

DrupalCon

Laura Scott — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:53:53 -0600

Since the Wordpress conference is mentioned, I thought I'd toss in DrupalCon, which is happening in Washington DC from March 4-7.

DrupalCon is the official Drupal unconference that attracts the most talented open source developers and innovative web shops in the world and brings them together to share knowledge, make decisions on the future of Drupal, and get to know each other in person.

It's also the premiere opportunity for Drupal users to learn what they can do with Drupal, find partners for future projects, and meet the people behind the code.

In this agenda you can see what the conference will focus on, and as you can see it's designed for both developers and Drupal users. The first three days of the conference will be about learning, while the last day will be about doing - that's when we'll all work together to push code and documentation forward.

DrupalCon is a volunteer run, nonprofit conference.

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org

Laura Scott, BlogHer Contributing Editor, Tech/Web
design, snap, blog, tweet

And dont't forget ...

PunditMom — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:42:33 -0600

... Feminism 2.0 in DC on Feb. 2, Women, Action & the Media in Boston in March, as well as the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism in Boston in March!

Great info!

nannygoats — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:04:42 -0600

Thanks for this list - makes for a great reference.

Margaret

Nanny Goats In Panties (www.nannygoatsinpanties.com)

Excellent idea, Virginia!

Melanie Nelson — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:04:56 -0600

I've put the info in a pdf and will link that up this afternoon. I hope that will make it easier for everyone to print if they want to!

Also, for another list of web events, check out Mashable's list at http://mashable.com/2008/12/29/mashable-events-dec29/.

Melanie
Blogging Basics 101
Bloggy Giveaways
Don't Try This at Home

Great list

Virginia DeBolt — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:43:57 -0600

I should print it and hang it by my calendar! I'll be at SXSW and BlogHer. See you there! It's not just for bloggers, but I'm also planning to go to Web Directions North in Denver this year.

Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer Technology Contributing Editor
Web Teacher
First 50 Words

Start with High Rankings

Virginia DeBolt — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:11:55 -0500

I don't know if you are already familiar with High Rankings and the High Rankings Advisor newsletter and forums, but I would look there. http://www.highrankings.com/

News about changes to Google's way of indexing usual gets brought up in the forums, and you can ask questions of an expert there, too.

I've seen this happen to other people, especially with Google rankings. They change things unexpectedly. Then you have to figure out what they are doing all over again.

Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer Technology Contributing Editor
Web Teacher
First 50 Words