http://derekgallo.com Technology, Interests and My Life Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:07:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Its going to be a busy week because the following day, Saturday the 5th of April starts the second BarcampOrlando. The first day is geared towards developers and the second towards media. Don't miss the official after party GeekOut '08! It should be a great day of ... http://derekgallo.com/2008/04/01/california-barcamporlando-and-orlandophp/ The Future of Web Apps in Miami has past. I found the event a great opportunity to learn from some of the industry tops as well as socialize and network with industry peers. I attend many conferences but usually I am working at them, providing kiosk technology for ... http://derekgallo.com/2008/03/02/barcamp-and-future-of-web-apps-in-miami/ Being a Mac OSX user but managing several Windows based servers, I find myself using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac quite a bit. Until version 2.0 Beta of the RDC software this was quite cumbersome. The older version would not let you have a connection ... http://derekgallo.com/2008/02/04/quickly-launch-multiple-remote-desktop-windows-with-quicksilver/ The team at NFi has been working hard the last couple of months on our upcoming professional networking product for associations. We have just released the Memberfuse Website now and I would like to say that Bender our creative director has done an excellent job. I really love ... http://derekgallo.com/2007/12/27/memberfuse-website-launch/ The first barCamp Orlando was great. All of the people who spoke prepared good presentations and all of them gave something to learn. I even picked up some good information from the topics I was already familiar with. Many thanks to Gregg and Jason and everyone else ... http://derekgallo.com/2007/09/23/first-annual-barcamp-orlando/ Help Me Pay My Loans is a little experiment by Derek Bender (no it is not my alter ego and yes that is really his last name). Bender, as we like to call him, is an excellent designer but to gain his skill level he has racked up a ... http://derekgallo.com/2007/09/19/help-him-pay-his-loans/ I was talking about Object Oriented Design with someone the other day and the topic of making an object's member variable read only came up. This is normally a simple task, simply define the member variable as protected or private within the class definition. That essentially makes it ... http://derekgallo.com/2007/09/08/read-only-member-variables-with-php-5/ Donna Dowless came in and spoke to the NFi team on friday. Donna has lead an interesting and successful life in the entertainment industry. She has worked directly with The Beatles, James Brown, Prince and many other legendary people. She has served as the director of many ... http://derekgallo.com/2007/08/25/thanks-donna-dowless/ The Lehman Associates have released a study on the use and satisfaction of AMS systems among large associations in North America. iMis ranked at the top among the available solutions out there. iMis holds a 37 percent market share and ranked at the top in implementation experience and ... http://derekgallo.com/2007/08/17/imis-is-the-top-association-management-system/ Everyone else is posting in response to Alex's Spirit Airlines nightmare so I figured I would too. The truth is that airlines just don't seem to care. Its like they know you have to get where your going so they can do a crappy job and you will ... http://derekgallo.com/2007/08/05/joining-the-airline-bashing/