Count with me, please, exactly how many truly, deeply geeky things are incredibly right about this piece.

1. Kazoos
2. Korg Stylophones
3. Recorders
4. Theremin
5. Thumb piano
6. Cowbell
7. Ukulele
8. Spoons
9. A Keytar
10. Kazoos, for Heaven’s sake!

Then, once you’ve whetted your appetite for this kind of thing, be sure to check out Domino’s Hip Hop Medley

and their cover of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”

Sooooo grood.

We talked briefly about

• Free theme frameworks/parent themes, such as Thematic, Twenty Ten and Hybrid
• Commercial theme frameworks such as Genesis, Headway and the Woothemes offerings
• Hooks and filters and their uses in a custom theme (see here for a nifty app outlining all the hooks in WordPress)
• Justin Tadlock and Ian Stewart as must-reads for theming information in general
• Parent and child themes* (separate links!)
• Securing your WordPress installations
• Selling your WordPress themes
• e-commerce using WordPress and, potentially, Magento
• Caching using WP Super Cache, though I have recently taken to using a combination of Hyper Cache and DB Cache Reloaded
• WP Tavern, the WP.org forums and #wordpress/#wordpress-dev on freenode as destinations for those seeking more online WordPress community opportunities

I’m sure there are some other things I’m forgetting to mention, so if anyone has anything more to contribute (or further questions), please just drop a comment.

I’m looking forward to the next meetup!

Yowsa. Arduino + a heaping amount of German ingenuity For. The. Win.

I’m extremely excited to announce that I have agreed to take a position with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (aka CHOP) starting in early August. I will be working as a senior Linux administrator in their research department and will get a chance to ply my trade in pursuit of gene sequencing and population studies in a high-performance cluster environment.

It’s definitely a bittersweet moment for me. This ends my just-under-two-years foray into self-employed IT contracting and, though I have enjoyed my time as an independent IT guru, I welcome the return of paid time off. *grin* I’m sad to be leaving my friends and compatriots at my current facility but am really excited for what the future holds.

Write down the date — October 30, 2010, the day before Halloween, I’m due to speak at WordCamp Philly down at Temple University in Philadelphia. I’m incredibly honored to be given the chance to speak on a topic near to my heart: Making WordPress Work AT Work. I plan on posting a series of articles over the next few months that will act as the foundation for my talk.

In the meantime, browse the #wcphl website and (after getting your tickets, of course) be sure to check out the other speakers that will be presenting.

If you’re using phpPgAdmin to administer PostgreSQL databases and you want to be able to alter records from the web-based interface — i.e., you want each row to feature an “Edit” and “Delete” button — you’ll need to remember this: all tables that you want to use phpPgAdmin on must have a PRIMARY KEY defined. No PRIMARY KEY, no Edit/Delete links.

Too, too funny.

This, of course, calls to mind this incredible scene from Extras:

It’s available here over on BitBucket and, unlike Nikolai’s effort (which only appears to track trunk), I started my clone at the root of the Subversion repository, meaning that all branches and tags are (theoretically) accounted for. I’m currently syncing the two repos by-hand but am working on an automated process that should push changes from the core WordPress SVN server to BitBucket fairly quickly.

I’ll post again later to demonstrate my full process for accomplishing this — it was astonishingly easy, to be honest.

In the meantime, get cloning!