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Community News January 2002

Posted on 31 Jan 2002

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by Martin Burns (MartinB)

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Martin Burns

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User since: 26 Apr 1999

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Happy 2002 everyone. Here's what the New Year brought to the lives of evolt members.

Beervolts

  • Mike King celebrated his birthday in evolt-style, painting London red (and green and blue) with a beervolt. How old is that now, Mike?

  • Portland evoltistas got together and did food as well as beer. An interesting innovation...

Awards, kudos and other recognition

  • Matthew Garrett's site made for photographer Norman Mauskopf, http://www.normanmauskopf.com, has made it into Graphis Interactive Design 2, an international print collection of graphic design driven web sites. Publication date is unknown at this point, but it should come out in the first half of this year. We're all looking forward to it. Those are awesome photos.

  • Ron White, a well-established member in the evolt.org community, appeared on Jeopardy! on January 23rd, winning $12,001. Ben Dyer, yet another evolt member, has posted some AVI files of Ron's appearance. On January 24th, as returning champion, Ron bet the bundle on the Final Jeopardy question, but lost. Congrats, Ron! But... where was the evolt.org plug?! :)

  • Jeff Howden has had the skills which produced a lot of evolt's ColdFusion code recognised by being recently selected by New Riders publishing company to help review a couple of book proposals and potentially assist with editing for technical accuracy of a future ColdFusion book.

  • Morbus Iff, another worthy evolt.org member, becomes famous with his Apache / OS X articles. The latest has just been published on the O'Reilly Network: Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X, Part 4. Go and count the number of example names used in the article who also happen to be chatters on evolt.org's IRC channel: #evolt... ;)

Personal Happenings

...stop press... Isaac sold his house at a nice profit just before this went out and will be shouting drinks tonight... If you wanted to buy such a desirable property, sorry, you're too late I'm afraid.

Submissions

The evolt.org Monthly Recap is a summary of awards, meetings, and fresh opportunities relevant to all of us. Submitted items from month to month may be of varying relevance to others depending on the number of opportunities. The important thing, though, is that you can share more about yourself, and learn more about the people that make up the evolt.org community. If you want to know more, please read the the evolt.org Monthly Recap introductory article.

If you're proud of it, send it in. Don't be shy.

Please send all submissions via the contact form. Any queries or clarifications can be sent via the same method.

Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.

Amongst his favourite things is ZopeDrupal, which he uses to run his personal site. He's starting to (re)gain a sneaking regard for ECMAscript since the arrival of unobtrusive scripting.

He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.

Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?

Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?

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