I just received a proof of the 2011 Gowalla Stamp for Toadsuck Daze 2011 today and it looks great. Big shout out to Gowalla for supporting Toadsuck Daze and the Toadsuck Tweetup. To get this custom stamp you have to check in on Gowalla during this years festival while downtown at Toadsuck Square. There is a good possibility we will have a tweetup this year like we did last year, hopefully this year the tornados and severe weather will stay away! Stay tuned for more info about the possible tweetup…
Toadsuck Daze 2011 Gowalla Stamp
March 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Large Tech Conference in Conway?
March 14, 2011 By 39 Comments
A while back I blogged about having a large tech conference in central Arkansas, later I was asked to write an article for the Arkansas Times regarding my idea for a large tech conference in central Arkansas, you can read my post about the idea here, and my Arkansas Times article here. The article in the Times resulted in several phone calls from groups and organizations wishing to extend their support to the idea, one of those organizations was the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce / Conway Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Later this month we are having our first planning meeting to hash out this idea and put a game plan in action, if you are interested in being a part of our steering committee for this idea, please drop me a comment below and we will get your name added to the list. We want as much input from around the state that we can get, we want this to be a one of a kind tech event that will have an enormous impact on the state.
Also, you don’t have to be on the steering committee to have a role in this event, we would love to hear your suggestions regarding the name for this event. You can submit your name ideas via our wufoo form here, my personal favorite name suggestion came from Arlton, “South Central Interactive”.
Also, please feel free to drop your ideas / thoughts regarding this tech conference in the comment section below…
Gowalla Event Stamp for Toadsuck Daze
March 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I just got confirmation last week from Gowalla that they are going to produce another custom event stamp for Toadsuck Daze this year! Some of you that attended last year may remember that they produced one for us last year as well. Unfortunately last years Toadsuck Daze was plagued by severe thunderstorms and tornados so only 25 people got the stamp last year. Hopefully the weather will cooperate a little better this year!
Toadsuck Daze will be held from April 29 – May 1st in downtown Conway. The headline act this year will be none other than our very own Kris Allen. For more information about Toadsuck Daze, you can visit the official website here… As soon as I have a proof as to what the stamp is going to look like, I will be sure to post it here so everyone can check it out before hand. There has also been some talk about having another Toadsuck Tweetup this year but nothing has been confirmed yet, stay tuned for announcements…
Conway #RefreshCA–March 8th
March 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
Not for sure if the Little Rock version of the Central Arkansas Refresh has anything going on this month but I will try to find out and post something if they do. But, tomorrow night the Conway #RefreshCA group is meeting around 6pm at Michelangelos in Downtown Conway for a discussion on Git, presented by none other than Pleth lead developer Craig McCoy. This should be a good meetup, if you are in the area I highly recommend stopping by. All meetings are totally free and open to the public.
If you are unfamiliar w/ Git, here’s a brief rundown: Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do. Git is used for version control of files, much like tools such as Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and Visual SourceSafe.
