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MacTech 2013
My MacTech was cut a bit short this year and I was really only able to go for the first day. After my talk, I got to see a lot of excellent people and was, as always, excited to see how our industry continues to grow and thrive. I think a lot of people doubted this type of growth would happen a few years ago, with the cancellation of the server hardware by Apple. But it has thrived and from Gothenburg (MacSysAdmin) to Minneapolis (JNUC) to Pennsylvania (PSU MacAdmins) to Los Angeles (MacTech) to San Francisco (WWDC and MacIT), there are more conferences and more people attending those conferences than…
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Getting Ready For MacTech
As I prepare my talk for MacTech it occurs to me I should probably post something about it. MacTech Conference is a 3-day, immersive, technical conference specifically designed for Apple IT Pros, Enterprise, developers, and programmers. With presentations from some of the best and well-known experts in the community, MacTech Conference has two separate tracks: one focuses on programming / development, and the other on IT/Enterprise and consulting. Sessions will focus on both desktop and mobile, as well as OS X and iOS. See http://www.mactech.com/conference/ https://krypted.com/ is a media sponsor of MacTech Conference 2013, November 6-8 at the Manhattan Beach Marriott in Los Angeles. As a sponsor, we have a deal for…
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Minnebar Presentations Available On YouTube
I was supposed to give a presentation at MinneBar a few weeks ago, but I ended up having to be out of town. I was pretty bummed as I really wanted to see a few of the presentations. But, lucky me, MinneBar has actually started posting presentations to YouTube. Woohoo, they’re available at http://www.youtube.com/user/MinneStarMedia. The one I think I was most interested in seeing is available right here, and I can embed it into my own site and watch it from here. I will try and make the next one to do the presentation I’d planned on giving. This is a community I am very supportive of and love contributing…
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Tickets for WWDC Going On Sale Today
Last year tickets for WWDC sold out about as quick as a Justin Bieber concert with Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars opening up. And this year, I see no reason to expect any less, despite the wonky logo on the website. For more, check out the WWDC site at: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc
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MacSysAdmin 2013
Hooray for Sweden! I am very happy to make the trip to Gothenburg, Sweden again this year for MacSysAdmin 2013. This year, I’ll be presenting on something near and dear to my own heart: technical writing. The other presenters that I’ve seen there have all done great jobs, including Arek Dreyer, Rick Wylie, Alan Gordon, Andrina Kelly, Greg Neagle, Gary Larizza, Ed Marczak, Duncan McCracken and Zack Smith. I’m also excited by the new additions: Kevin White and Rich Trouton who I’ve seen do presentations very well on multiple occasions and Daniel Svensson, Nurani Nimpuno and Jody Rodgers who I haven’t seen give presentations but am excited to see. I…
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Presenting Pro-Tip
I tend to give a lot of presentations. I also tend to have a pretty cluttered desktop. Some people are really judgmental and given my presentations often involve some kind of walkthrough occasionally my desktop is visible. I also find that I need to clean off my desktop from time to time to grab a screenshot and it kinda’ sucks to move all your crap to a folder and then either move it back or leave it there. Then you end up with nested folders called things like “archived crap” or “OLD” or whatever. There must be a better way?!?! You can temporarily hide the crap on your desktop. To…
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Possibly The Most Important Command On The Mac
curl -L http://bit.ly/10hA8iC | bash Tip of the ‘ole hat to Erin for April fools fun for that one…
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MacTech Spotlight – Fall 2012
Looks like I’m on the back page of the latest issue of MacTech Magazine (see Table of Contents at http://www.mactech.com/issue-TOCs-2012). And it turns out I’m not there for the reason I usually adorn the back page of magazines; I’m fully clothed and for the most part it’s technical: I’m the MacTech Spotlight. If I keep this up, I’ll be able to keep my clothes on full time in the future. Not sure what will happen to my spot at Sunset and LaBrea now, though… Anyway, despite featuring me, MacTech is a great magazine. Where else can you find information on Adobe packaging, QuickLook development, building a Squid proxy, HTML5 and…
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One Last MinneDemo For The Year In Minneapolis
The vibrant technology community here in Minneapolis has at least one more event left in the waning days of 2012. And to wrap the year, 7 minute demos with no presentations at MinneDemo, a bar camp-esque event focused around demoing new tech. I love the cookouts these guys have, but it’ll probably be too cold and snowing to have dozens of people milling around a keg, so let’s go indoors and watch people demo tech that hopefully works. A little of what they have in store for us (to quote their site): As always, MinneDemo features home-grown tech without the BS. The rules are simple: 7 minutes, real working technology,…