Conference Recovery

I got back from ApacheCon in Austin on Friday. It was a really great event. I finally got to meet Stefano and attended his semantic web talk (hey Stefano, where are the slides, eh?). Several others have already blogged wrapups so the only thing I’ll add is that I only got half of my published to-do list done.

Saturday I presented two sessions at the Pittsburgh Java User’s Group first Code Camp and the slides and notes will be published shortly. I think the event went really well. We had just under 100 people in attendance and all the talks were well done. I’m glad to see more events like this in Pittsburgh.

Tonight I finally finished some maintenance on my weblog which should make it a bit easier for me to post. I’m still looking into improving the performance of PyBlosxom, but that’s another topic. I’ve also launched two blogs here on CubicleMuses.com: Woodnotes and Peregrinari . Woodnotes is actually Jenny’s original blog from the JadeTower domain. Peregrinari is a new blog that Jenny and I will jointly author. It will feature stories from our travels abroad and other family events.

To be able to easily host mutliple pyblosxom blogs, I ended up using the following layout:

site/
     pyblosxom/
          pyblosxom...
          plugins
     blogs/
      cm/
            public/
              files/
                  images/
            entries/
            comments/
            flavours/
            static/
      wn/
        ...

I stuck with pyblosxom after exploring some alternatives because I wanted the flexibility to easily customize my setup. I also really wanted to use flatfiles instead of a database. The tradeoff is a performance hit, particularly for a site with a lot of articles, but I have some ideas on how to improve that.