Cre8tive Flow

Oh the joy of ordering simple things online.

The Sydney film festival is on right now, and I agreed , against my better judgement, to order tickets online. Gloriously, the festival has chosen Ticketmaster as their fulfillment partner.

Twenty minutes of multiple illegible screengrabs, a frustrating registration process (I want to buy a ticket, why do I need an Flippin’ account?) and a lovely delivery method page that was pointless all combined with my legendarily low threshold for ineptitude and my blood was at boiling point when I finally reached the CC form, where I encountered something so bad it made me laugh.

Vancouver-based business networking and technology forum Tazzu hosted Vancouver’s first official WordPress Camp last Wednesday, showcasing the great features of WordPress as both a blogging platform and a content management system. The event, which was expected to bring in about 30 people, had a turn out of over 90 at The Network Hub in Downtown Vancouver, but everyone was more than happy to sit knee-to-knee to learn, share and be inspired.

Cre8asite Forum’s techical administrator has been showing his incredibly helpful and knowledgeable understanding of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and PHP recently.

He’s developed a couple of cheat sheets to make it easier for you to use both CSS and PHP. These are some wonderful resources, and I recommend that you stop by his site, and check them out.

CSS Cheat Sheet

PHP Cheat Sheet

These would make great posters.

There’s a real chance to learn from some very good project managers these days.

Quite a few of them are starting conversations on the web, and offering suggestions and ideas on what they do. ILoveJackDaniels post earlier today gave a great insight on what it’s like to be a programmer on a project team, and pointed to an article that suggests the proper temperment for a project manager.

Inspired by that, I visited the blogs of a few project managers I know of to see if I could point out some other ideas on what makes a good project manager.

I’m a big fan of the Robert Frost poem Mending Wall, in which two neighbors meet to rebuild the stone fence that separates their properties.

Talking about how the fence seems to need to be mended every year, one of the neighbors discusses how walls have a tendency to come down, as if by magical intervention. The other repeats a mantra that was likely his father’s – that good fences make good neighbors.

When I was reading about a software update, I came across the following quote which called to mind that Frost poem: