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Well, the Random bits podcast is up for best podcast for 2007! It is a podcast I am proud of so am happy to even have it nominated. If you haven’t listened to it yet and are part of the web development world, I recommend having a listen! Of course if you like it, feel free to vote for it 
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Some of my favorite talks were:
UPDATE - People extracting with Winzip have been running into errors. Try winrar if you do.
What a long process this has been but the day is finally here. Let’s back up a bit and start from the beginning, shall we?
Many many many months ago I decided I didn’t want the typical “About me” page. Sure that way I could dictate what people knew about me and frame their perception of me, but what fun is that 
. I came across a script by a very nice guy, Dean who offered to give me his script! This was awesome. Dean’s script had the functionality I needed, but I wanted more functionality and wanted to put a database behind it rather than rely on files. I spent about 20 hours and wound up with a pretty neat script and launched it about 16 months ago.
It is pretty neat and i think it gives readers an interesting perspective into my personality that they wouldn’t see in my posts. Over the months though, I continuously had people asking me for a copy of it. I decided I should make it a plugin because i didn’t know of any like it out there. I finally did. My good friend Jelena wanted to start her blog last month and she wanted a copy too. All according to my evil plan, i talked her into helping me finish it. I remember when I told her the functionality I had left to do on it and she said.. oh 2-3 hours tops. We’ve spent well over 80 hours since then and finally have something that is hopefully worth to put out. That probably seems likes an astronomical amount of time but it really is a PITA to make it work just by dragging and dropping a file into your plugin directory. I have a new found respect for plugin authors. My last plugin was a breeze to make but the functionality was also very limited and didn’t require any interaction with the admin panel.
There is one big issue with it and hopefully you can help me figure it out. Upon activation, the plugin creates a page called “Ask Me”. Everything works as it should if you already have a page created. If you don’t however and you try to view your page at: http://www.yourblog.com/ask-me/ or http://www.yoursite.com/blog/ask-me/, you can’t find it. So what you have to do is create a test page and then delete the page and all is well.
I’m pretty sure the reason for this is when wordpress creates a page, it inserts the page into a specific table, but it also turns on a flag saying, “hey, we have pages!” I can’t figure out where that flag is, so if anyone knows, please let me know!
If you have Wordpress, and want a page like my Ask me page, you can download the plugin. For those of you who don’t read the ‘read me’… please do so. Report any bugs here!
