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WarcraftBloggers.com continues to grow.  I get a couple requests a day to add blogs, and usually I get to them right away.  I am traveling this week, so will be a bit sow, but I will get to you all.

Something you can do to help the site is tell your friends, blog about it, link to it , add a badge to your blog, etc.  The value of warcraftbloggers grows with every new blog added, so send your suggestions as well.  It is intended to be a community resource.

A Guest Blog Post: Liberty Hardy is a part-time book slinger and writer living with her evil, evil cat in lovely Portsmouth, N.H. She's going for her "Amazing Screw-On Head" tattoo next week.

The past couple years, I have been seeking to improve my geek rating. I don't just want to be a geek, I want to be a well-educated geek. I want to be able to appoint myself a science fiction vixen.

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There has been a lot of chatter regarding open source lately.  Good and exciting stuff all in all.  I thought I would just spend a few minutes pondering open source as it pertains to stuff I work on.

The most significant thing I have done programming wise is Savvy Content Manager.  It isn't open source, but believe it or not people still use non-open source software. :-)  We have talked about going open source in the past.  It isn't a model I am familiar with other than being a consumer. Heck, I don't even know if I capitalize the O and S... But to be frank, business is business.  If going open source meant more money for the company then it would be a no brainer.  I have talked to the president about it and that's the bottom line. 

Quick Note: No, this doesn't mean we are going to do it. Nor does it mean we feel pressure to do so.  We are profitable and quite happy right now. It's just fun to think about stuff like this from time to time.  I thought maybe I would start a conversation about it with others and learn a bit more, thus this blog post.

The question is how would the model work for something like Savvy CM to be open source?

Looking at models available online right now it seems the Professional Open Source Model seems the only candidate. 

Our revenue is part software sales and part service work. Service work would include creative work (design), custom code, installation, support, training, etc.  To drop the revenue from software sales we would need to make it up somewhere else, and not just through volume.  If we make it up in volume of additional work then we need to add more staff since the service work doesn't scale easily.  We don't mind growing, but I don't want to confuse the idea of more revenue == better bottom line.  Perhaps a better metric would be revenue / employee.  If that number goes up we are good.

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Now that CF.Objective is over its time to try to remember all those presentations we watched, or track down the ones we missed.  Luckily Todd Sharp has released a new site that will archive presentations online.  Its pretty sweet.  Trouble is, he launched it during cf.O and lots of people missed it since they were so busy (and had spotty web access).

So this is just a quick request to the presenters, please post your stuff to SlideSix.com so we can review it.

If you're using yahoo's ajax api you include a js file at the top of your page that loads much of the JS needed.  This code conflicts with parts of YUI. 

I use ColdFusion which includes YUI in some of its UI controls.  Two things I have found thus far that don't work. 

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The conference has gone well so far.  It is my first time at cf.o and I wasn't sure what to expect.  The attendance is great.  I think higher then organizers had anticipated.  The hotel is fantastic.  The room is huge, the food is good and staff has been very helpful and friendly.

I haven't been to any sessions yet.  As a sponsor I am at the booth most of the time. I do have plans to attend some though.  Specifically the Intro to Model Glue (I hear good things), and sessions on Transfer and ColdSpring.

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I fly out tomorrow morning for CF.Objective so today I am double checking all my flights, hotel, bus and other arrangements as well as trying to finish up some quick code and square clients away.  Since Savvy Software is a sponsor, we will have a table set up, so I need to figure out how to fit all that stuff into something feasible to carry on a plane.  I did ship the mousepad/notepads ahead of time.  If collapse a 20" monitor and put it into my suitcase, what are the odds it will survive the travel?

I am really looking forward to catching up with many of my CF friends.  Please stop by the booth and say hi. My friend Ken Dunnington will be working the booth with me, so say hi to him too. :-)

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