Critter’s Code

This has been on my ‘todo’ list for ages. I finally got around to getting it inked this evening.

The best ColdFusion logo of them all!

There was also a really cool article in the L.A. Times about my Seesmic tattoo.

Tonight was a brilliant night on Seesmic. @Sizemore, @giagia, and @danlight were able to set it up so that the cast of the latest Indiana Jones flick would be interviewed on Seesmic.

• Steven Spielberg
• George Lucas
• Harrison Ford
• Cate Blanchett
• Karen Allen
• Shia LaBeouf

There was a hiccup in the network during the recording of Mr. Lucas’s videos, but they will be added to the timeline later as they were recorded with a second HD camera, as well.

Update: Loic Lemeur (founder of Seesmic (and my boss)) has very informative blog post on it all.

Ok, well they didn’t really make me move, but they did make me want to move. We (Seesmic) finally made public our plugin for Wordpress blogs, which allows for including video in blog posts and video commenting (seriously… how cool is that?).

A quick search on Google turned up this post by Sean Tierney, but his migration script doesn’t work for the newer versions of Wordpress. I attempted to muck around with the queries, but quickly grew tired of it.

A bit more searching and I came upon this post by James Netherton. The post mentions that it only works with MYSQL databases and that it has only been tested with Wordpress v2.3. I run my BlogCFC on MSSQL and the version of Wordpress that I have is 2.5, but I figured I could get the queries working.

I set everything up as instructed, but threw errors as soon as I attempted to execute the script. I mucked around with the queries for a while, but gave up and figured it would be quicker (read: easier) to migrate my data over to a MYSQL database. I downloaded the MYSQL Migration Tool and ported my blogCFC database from MSSQL to MYSQL quickly and painlessly. Once my database was moved over to MYSQL, I was able to run James Netherton’s script with no errors… and voila! My personal blog was ported over to Wordpress.

Information about the Seesmic Wordpress Plugin can be found here (OT) Seesmic Wordpress video comment plugin 

Last night, I attended the 1st Triangle Tweetup. I would have to classify it as a success. Wayne Sutton did an excellent job of pulling it all together.

Prior to the tweetmeetup a bunch of us met up at McGregor’s Draft House for a quick pint or two. I arrived a few minutes early, and not really knowing what anyone looked like, I parked myself at the bar. I kept scanning the area for people that look like the might ‘get twitter’, but you really can’t stereotype that can you? While enjoying my lovely pint of Stella, I tweeted "… I’m the one with the hat… and a couple tattoos". Not even a minute or two later, someone tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I was Critter? I was. The group was right behind me. Introductions were made — and I have to say this now, folks.. I suck at names. faces.. yeah… I can do faces.. names.. I are bad — and light conversation was made. The group quickly grew, so everyone moved outside for food and a bit of clear air.

fast forward a bit…

At the event location, name tags were applied and more mingling commenced. Introductions were made and we began. I have to admit, I have a hard time in general remembering what all was talked about, but I do remember all the conversations I had with people at the event.  I did a demo of Seesmic and showed off my Seesmic Racoon (you had to know it would make an appearance). Oh, I just remembered some of the things we talked about. *whew* I am not loosing it!

Anyway.. it was a great event, and it’s always nice to put faces with.. @names. Speaking of which… I ran into a guy I worked with back at MCI back in the early 2000’s — small world.

So thanks to all that worked to pull the event together. Well done.

Pictures on flickr tagged for the event.

Just a quick not to inform you that SeesmicAIR has been updated to the latest version of AIR 1.0.

You can download the update from the SeesmicAIR project page.

Follow @SeesmicAIR on Twitter for updates.

I have a few Seesmic invites to give out to those that are interested. There are easily over 15,000 people waiting on the list. You know you want one!

Leave a comment if you are interested.