arafalov on March 16th, 2008

They say at BarCamp that if you don’t like the session you are in, feel free to go to a better one. No hard feelings. But what do you do, if you show up for the announced moderated discussion session yet the moderator does not.
That’s what happened to us with the last (5:15pm) slot of [...]

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arafalov on March 16th, 2008

I have gone (and will go back tomorrow) to the BarCampNYC3. The requirement for every person to speak was not enforced, but I figured I have something to contribute anyway. I brought and talked about the Chumby. I entitled my talk “Chumby - Open, Cool, Cute“.
My session must have only had 6 people in it, [...]

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Atlassian has just released Crowd 1.3 that now has the Delegated Authentication option - two-faced directory with an external LDAP facing part for authentication and an internal Crowd part for authorisation. This double-faced functionality causes some non-obvious interface issues.
The most important issue to understand is that external part is accessed only when user is authenticated [...]

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arafalov on March 3rd, 2008

Watching the 21 Accents video (via Neatorama)  made me think that different languages/accents seemed to require different mouth positions. Is it possible that some phonemes are only achievable with the mouth wide-stretched in a smile? Then loading a language with such phonemes would be one way to ensure people appear friendly to strangers whatever the [...]

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