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Friday, February 18th 2011 12 – 2PM Anca has been building sites using Genesis for the last 5 months, and would like to share some of her experiences. Lori has collected some code snippets by building Genesis child themes. ***This session assumes you have worked with Genesis before and want to develop a sophisticated child [...]

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A seven week introduction to the Unix system. Meets Wednesdays from 5pm to 7pm starting January 12 and ending February 23. Schedule: Jan 12: basic shell commands, stdin and stdout, vi intro, directory structure, what are the usual shells; Jan 19: grep and find, sed and awk, regular expressions, man pages, internet resource guide; Jan [...]

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Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 1 – 8PM The very sound ‘WordPress’ evokes passion far beyond those two simple syllables. It started so simple, didn’t it? From Blogger, or perhaps WordPress.com, you suddenly find yourself in charge of A Blog. A WordPress blog. You can feel the power at your fingertips. Now, you find having one [...]

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Thursday, June 2   6 – 8PM Our next East Bay HTML5 will focus on HTML5 as it relates to mobile platforms. When we’re talking HTML5 and mobile we’re mainly talking about web applications that have been design and optimized to be viewed using a mobile web browser. These techniques include responsive web design, geolocation, [...]

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I spent a little time today reading the Google Webmaster Tools site, in particular, their section on Search Engine Optimization(SEO).  There is a wealth of resources there, and they are more up to date than anything you might find on blogs – so when you search for SEO help, start at Google, not at some [...]

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I gave this presentation at the East Bay WordPress meetup in September. It’s about developing a Plugin for a Custom Post Type for use by podcasters. The project is not yet complete, but here is the presentation for your perusal.

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Thursday, October 21st, 6 – 8:30PM Tech and Taste: Twitterology, Technology and Advancing a Targeted List Bring your laptop and learn to use Twitter Power tips to save time, build a smart following and convert business! Get personalized support from one of the top Twitter influencers in the San Francisco Bay Area! Come network, taste [...]

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As a middling blogger, I’m always thinking about how to more quickly get relevant content on my site.  A few weeks ago in one of our Bloggers’ Support Group meetups, Deborah Hymes and I spent some time looking around for places where one could get content for one’s site. Is it possible to just buy [...]

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Thanks to everyone who attended and provided feedback about our WordPress workshops.  We’ve run the 5-week workshop 3 times, and will be doing it again!  We’ve also added a workshop series for Bloggers and Site Owners who want to focus on building the content on their sites or blogs. Please help us schedule these workshops! [...]

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Finished Trowel (Photo by ancawonka, used with permission) Here are some of the pieces that we fixed using Sugru

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