Finally made it out to WordCamp in San Francisco.

Some interestingness that I encountered today:

• Chris Lea from Media Temple pitched NGINX. Apparently, it blows away Apache in performance.  Whereas Apache uses forking, NGINX is asynchronous.
• Joseph Scott pitched the Open Source WordPress iPhone App.
• Sam Bauers on maintaining WordPress using SVN. You can now move the content directory outside of the WordPress directory. Symlink to plugins that you want SVN to maintain, like Akismet.
• Noel Jackson used the Rule of Thirds, PHP, and JavaScript to get colors from photos in a blog to create a monochromatic theme, Monotone.

Also got a free t-shirt, lunch, and tons of coffee!

Lunch!

Sea of computers. Are there more computers than people in this picture? Taken at the beginning of Matt Mullenweg's talk

Southern Exposure’s granting program Alternative Exposure released its grantees website this month. I worked with Southern Exposure to create the look and feel based on printed materials, brochures, and a set of logos.  I built the site using WordPress for content management and user account management. Grantees can login and update their project pages, post an image, and post events. The site will also auto-archive the list of grantees each year as their granting program progresses.

Southern Exposure is a nonprofit art exhibition space in San Francisco.

• Alternative Exposure website - http://www.soex.org/alternativeexposure