ProXalt is still offering its Flash based 35 hour course for the Project Management Professional exam for only $35. The thirty five hours are required by PMI - the Project Management Institute - when applying to sit for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam. PMI requires proof of 35 hours or more of coursework in project management.

UKUUG is the UK's Open Systems Group and the Summer Conference is the highlight of our year. It brings together Free Libre and Open Source Software developers and users from all over the UK and Europe to share knowledge and discuss the latest trends in Free Software.

I will be running a Drupal workshop on the Friday.

Nice post from David Meerman Scott about online PR here:
http://www.webinknow.com/2008/05/top-ten-pr-tips.html

I don't know David, but I liked his statement: "I realized that sometimes there is value to top-of-mind ideas. Nuggets of value may be lost when you obsess over getting every detail perfect." Couldn't agree more.

Here's his list:

1. The old ways to get noticed were to buy expensive advertising and beg the media to write about you and your products. The best way to get noticed today is to publish great content online.

Great article (via @guykawasaki) on how the expectations of the next generation are reshaping the businesses they work for. 12 points about how the new workplace will need to reflect the principles of the social web.

Here are my favourites:
* All ideas compete on an equal footing.
* Leaders serve rather than preside.
* Resources get attracted, not allocated.

Another great article from Seth Godin who talks about how we should all have a super power, particularly in business. The example he gives is the Wasp
“I’m the Wasp. I have the ability to shrink to a height of several centimeters, fly by means of insectoid wings and fire energy blasts.”
Some fancy marketers might call this a positioning statement or a unique selling proposition. Of course, it’s not that. It’s just her super power.

I was into email about a decade ago. These days I prefer to avoid communication forms that demand my attention. I can definitely recommend ending an email (and twitter) (and RSS) addiction.

For a presentation for other students at Roskilde University, I created this presentation of various (mostly) free software tools/services for introducing them in ways to use the internet and their computer in ways that makes studying or their life in general 'easier' in some sense.

At the end of the pdf there are links to the Keynote-file to the presentation so that people can modify it further if desired. (I'll see if I can save it as a PowerPoint as well if any of you are interested)

I know that it is only just past Christmas, but thought that you would want to be the first to know that our latest 2009 information brochure is available.

A "must have" for any serious business student or corporate training manager.

email - [email protected] - today & we will be delighted to send you a copy

Happy New Year!

Here is my presentation on how we are building School of Everything's hosting infrastructure.

great range of material covered

I have been trying to get my head around ssh tunnels lately as I need to be able to access a development web server on our private network that doesn't have an IP accessible from the internet.
It's taken me a while to understand what is going on; it can be pretty confusing.

I'd recommend the following for a good explanation of what ports are used, e.g. when your browser requests a page:

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_TCPIPClientEphemeralPortsandClientServerApplicatio.htm

And I thought this was probably the best single page explanation of tunneling:

Slashdot had a great comment thread on helpful/stupid linux commands the other day - "cd" is one of the most basic commands in linux and one of the first you learn, but I never knew that "cd -" would change your directory back to the last one you were on.

The best comment though was the Russian Roulette method to delete something (the original had rm -rf / of course):

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm some-file-to-delete || echo "You live"

Here is a nice little bit of bash snagging for you. You need to grab lines from a file, process each in turn, and then at the very end report whether or not there was a problem for any of them. Simple ? Not quite.

The following scripts are mangled to show how this works, so don't expect them to operate as-is.


#!/bin/bash