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Archive for April, 2008

88 Miles at BarCamp Perth

On May 10, 2008 Perth will get to participate in their second BarCamp brought to you by the Australia Web Industry Association. If you haven’t heard of BarCamp, it is an ”Unconference“ where there isn’t a formal list of speakers — all of the presentations are given by the attendees. It’s all very adhoc, and lots of fun.

88 Miles is proudly supporting the event along with Saasu.com, Fasthit.net, Millstream and Scenario Seven.

It promises to be a fantastic day, I will be presenting a Q&A entitled Ask Myles-i the web guy. So if you have any questions about web development — frontend or backend or just want to come along and heckle, then head over to Central Tafe, East Perth and join the fun.

And don’t forget to register on the wiki, and to buy a t-shirt.

It’s a business, not a startup

The Beachhouse has had a steady stream of visitors recently, that have been involved with startups. It has been interesting how 88 Miles is considered a “Startup” which hasn’t really been sitting well with me — 88 Miles is a product of MadPilot Productions, which isn’t really a startup either.

Well, 37 Signals has just run a blog post, that explains why I have been uneasy. I’m not running a startup — I’m running a business. And I agree that people think in terms of startups, not businesses.

So if you are running a startup, make sure you are running a business too.

Perth Ruby on Rails meetup

We have just made an announced the second Ruby on Rails Oceania Perth meet up

Details

Ruby on Rails User Group Perth second edition: 24 Apr 2008 at 5:30 until about 7:30 at the Level 2, 90 King St Perth WA

If you are a Perth rubyist, it would be great to see you there, we are going to have talks this time around — I may even speak about OAuth

See you then