Orlando, Florida: October 18-22, 2010

"E-LEARN 2010 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education

E-Learn--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international conference organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) and co-sponsored by the International Journal on E-Learning.

Drupal Gardens Beta (http://drupalgardens.com) hopes to be to Drupal what Wordpress.com is to Wordpress. "With Drupal Gardens, there's nothing to install and no servers to manage. We take care of everything on the backend so you can focus on building great sites." The site is hosted for you and you configure it through a simple interface.

Omnisio provides an explanation of web widgets

Learn By The Drop presents a video showing how to install Drupal locally by using the Acquia Drupal stack installer. Acquia's installer is an all-in-one package that installs Acquia Drupal, MySQL, PHP and PhpMyAdmin. Acquia Drupal is a Drupal distribution that comes packaged with many useful contributed modules including CCK, Views and PathAuto.

Following up on my earlier post on running a web server on a usb stick, here is a list of other free web server software that can be run from a flash/usb drive. These servers typically run Apache, MySQL, PHP, and PHPMyAdmin.

USB Webserver - Portable Web Server. The page for this application is in Dutch. I ran the page through Google's translate service and this is the English it produced (I've included the original Dutch):

Usb Webserver in brief

THIRD WORLD UNIVERSITIES FORUM
Davos, Switzerland
9-11 January 2010
http://universitiesforum.com

The World Universities Forum was created in the belief that academe must better engage today's most crucial questions, and that higher education itself must be included as part of the wider discussion of global change. The Forum encourages the participation of university executives, administrators, scholars and research students, as well as journalists, policy makers, business and political leaders, and others who understand that the importance of the university extends well beyond campus.

Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
Berlin, Germany
15-17 February 2009
http://www.Design-Conference.com

Availability of Workshop Proceedings & Presentations -- Second Workshop on "Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge", organized by IMI, New Delhi

I previously set out to learn ROR but gave up when I got busy working on other projects. During the late summer I started looking into PHP frameworks and thought that Symphony might be a good idea but never pursued it any further. Yesterday, I discovered CodeIgniter when I found an article comparing different PHP frameworks.