Mudstone » admin http://www.mudstone.com like my garage, only cleaner Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:37:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en Web 2.0 Expo http://www.mudstone.com/2008/04/27/web-20-expo/ http://www.mudstone.com/2008/04/27/web-20-expo/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:12:28 +0000 admin http://www.mudstone.com/2008/04/27/web-20-expo/ IMG_0830The buzz word on every one’s lips this year was Cloud computing. Go on look it up, it will mess with your brain.
One of my favorite talks was by Clay Shirky, about Cognitive Surplus. You gotta follow the link to the short video of his talk. The after parties were numerous and fun. I got to go to Yahoo’s brick house, the Engine yard, and a party at HOT
The folks at HOT were really supper nice, interesting and fun. I like the focus of their company. Not to mention their space is fab!

It was great to network and learn about cutting edge concepts and other people’s experiences building web stuff, so I can learn from the mistakes and successes of others.

Best schwag from the Expo: getting my laptop laser etched at the Instructables Booth.

]]> http://www.mudstone.com/2008/04/27/web-20-expo/feed/ A New Mudstone http://www.mudstone.com/2008/04/13/hello-world/ http://www.mudstone.com/2008/04/13/hello-world/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:19:06 +0000 admin http://www.mudstone.com/?p=1 It had to go, that old static site has been tossed in the fire, it is no more. I’m starting fresh with this site. I’ve become much more interested in the fluid open web, CMS’s, CSS and Java script tool kits and less interested in Flash driven static, skip intro type of sites. They have their place, just not my focus.
When I was working on this site I started messing around with Drupal and after a lot of work and time I decided to go with WordPress instead. I’ll be back to Drupal for another project. It was overkill for what I needed. I want to keep it simple (you know KISS, keep it simple, stupid). WordPress is a better fit for my vision for Mudstone. What is my vision? That it be a sort of sketch book. A place for me to post ideas and thoughts that are fun and interesting and may be important later.

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