Ryan Price and Mike Anello (Andrew is still recovering from SXSW) are joined by Salim Lakhani from WebEnabled.com to discuss recent events in the Drupal universe as well as our new partnership. DrupalEasy has been using WebEnabled's services for almost a year now and we've decided to make it official!
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
Join Ryan Price and Mike Anello as they talk to Trevor James (twitter.com/jamesweblabs), one of the co-authors of Drupal 6 Performance Tips from Packt Publishing. Unfortunately, Trevor's co-author, TJ Holowyachuk, was unable to take part in the interview.
Our beloved Amway Arena will soon be replaced by the… Amway Events Center, down near the intersection of I-4 and 408. This means the current Arena and that huge parking lot will become mostly useless. The Bob Carr will remain in operation – possibly indefinitely – until the new Performing Arts Center is built. As for the rest of the land, well, let’s just say that Mayor Buddy has big dreams!
There are lots of watercolor drawings and slideshows with maps available on the City of Orlando’s website. They have a page with a few downloadable documents created that outline the gentrification of Parramore, creating lots of “party curb” streets (so drunk people don’t trip?), and making greater use of parks and public spaces. They also want to make sure the venues and other city buildings are “good neighbors”, whatever that means.
If you want to hear this BS in person, they’re having an event on Monday at City Hall. It seems to be open invite, so if you care about the future of downtown, make some time in your schedule for this.
Creative Village event March 22nd
If I’m allowed to videotape, the meeting will show up on our Watch Live page.
Edit: Lately I've been thinking Battledecks would be a great addition to the Fringe. The Pecha Kucha mentioned below is pretty similar.
Edit 2: The short slideshows will be held at the Outdoor Stage on Monday, May 24th, around 7PM.
Edit 3: We have a facebook event for Small Talk at Fringe: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=364435458753
Orlando Event TV interviews Ann Lemis of Green Sky Growers, a technologically sophisticated and sustainable rooftop garden in Winter Garden, Florida.
This 4th-floor hydroponic sustainable garden is located immediately next to the Garden Theatre in a city called Winter Garden, which is just comical. Green Sky sells their lettuce and other products to 8 local restaurants and at the local weekly farmer’s market. See more video about Winter Garden at the Daily City.
As I get older, I tend to have more and more visitors come down looking for a break from the rest of the world. Orlando can be a pretty good place to do that. It’s one of the top vacation spots, after all!
As we have people visit, we’ve started to compile a list of activities (some are mega-touristy) and restaurants that we can recommend to everyone. Here they are, in no particular order:
- The Wine Room
- Disney’s Animal Kindgom
- Cafe Tu Tu Tango
- White Wolf Cafe
- Funky Monkey Wine Co
- El Coqui Mexicano
- Gatorland Zoo (Go Orlando Card
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- Sky Venture Orlando
- Florida Ecosafaris Zip Line (Go Orlando Card
- A Day Away Kayaks – Bioluminescent Night Kayak Trip
- Blue Man Group Orlando
- SAK Improv Comedy Lab
- Sea World Orlando
- Wild Willy’s Airboat Rides
- Bok Tower and Gardens
- Manatee watching at Blue Springs (cold weather months)
- The Old Spanish Sugar Mill Pancake House, DeLeon Springs
- Disney Hollywood Studios (formery MGM)
- The Ravenous Pig
- Hamburger Mary’s Hambingo (Gay Bingo, Tuesday Night)
- Farris and Foster’s Chocolate Date Night
- Leu Gardens
- Kennedy Space Center (Go Orlando Card
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Mike Anello (ultimike) recently talked with Lynn Beighley, author of Drupal For Dummies from Wiley Publishing.