So one of the most heard comments about the UCF Marching Knights is in regards to their show selection. Everyone has the show that they think that the band should play. So in the spirit of community and the Black and Gold Nation, the Marching Knights have decided to open their show selecting process to the masses. For the past few months the band has been accepting emailed show suggestions and they have been split up into two categories, “Fan Submitted” and “Member Submitted” shows. So now on the website you can vote for two “Fan Submitted” shows and two “Member Submitted” shows.
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I am blogging from an undisclosed location as my whereabouts are currently a secret. The person it is a secret from probably doesn’t even read this. Oh well, they will when I show it to them later. Just to rub it in. I hope everyone has a good weekend and all of my friends who have finals this coming week at UCF have a semi-painless weekend studying for exams.

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Green conventions or green meetings are events which are conducted in ways which minimize the environmental burdens imposed by such activities. Green event and convention planning is now an established trend.

More and more companies and event organizers are thinking ”green“ Some of the statistics are proof in themselves that going Green is thriving and successful. The adoption of Green meetings and events sends a message to all that event organizers care about reducing their impact on the environment.

I am sure that many PHP developers that a new to the World of Mac development are relieved when they realize (or already know) that PHP is already installed on their Mac by default. But the time and setup to get Apache2, PHP and MySQL to interact together, in an easy manage fashion might be a little harder in the beginning. If you are the type of user that is just doing some local web development and then moving it to a live server or maybe a staging server it is worthwhile to just go and download MAMP. Read the rest of this entry »

I am pleased to let everyone know about an Orlando PHP Users Group. Some of us in the developer community have re-formed this group to help build a better PHP community and better the networking between us. The first meeting will on April 22nd on the campus of Devry University @ Millenia from 7 - 9 pm. Please visit the website orlandophp.org for more information. If you are a PHP developer in the Central Florida Area, or want to learn this is a great chance to hone your skills, or develop some new ones, and really network with other developers in the Central Florida Area. Look forward to seeing you there.