Nur Ahmad Furlong

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The Official WordPress Meetup Cape Town Logo
That is of course if anyone disagrees in and provides something better. I did a few roughs and seems this one was the favourite, so in the spirit of moving forward, I’m planning on whipping up an I’m attending button for you to put onto your blogs. Lets hope this will stimulate a little more interest in the event which will be taking place 26th March, 4pm at the Bandwidth Barn in Cape Town CBD.
What do the rest of you think of the logo?
Grab the badge below or paste the code into your sidebar to let others know you’ll be there and to encourage more to join us!
<a href=”http://wpcapetown.wordpress.com” title=”Wordpress Cape Town Meetup March 26 2008″><img src=”http://www.nurahmadfurlong.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/wpmeetup-button.gif” alt=”Wordpress Meetup Cape Town March 26 2008″ border=”0″ /></a>
March 14, 2008
WordPress Meetup Cape Town #2 Coming up soon
Hi All you wordpress Gurus, Rockstars and enthusiasts out there. The second WordPress cape Town Meetup is closing in on us and registration is open. The first meetup was a great success even though numbers were relatively low but we expect a much larger turn-out for session 2.
No payments necessary this time as the venue is being Sponsored by Jayz.co.za. So you’re interested in wordpress, you want to learn something or have some crazy wordpress skills and experience to share with others,head on over to the second WordPress Meetup in Cape Town on 26th March 2008.
The Details
Date: Wednesday 26 March 2008
Time: 4pm – 7pm
Location: Bandwidth Barn, 125 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town (map)
What’s The meetup all about?
Basically it takes on the style of an (un)conference and is very informal. We get together, bring some ideas,questions, problems, cool wordpressy stuff and share, present, ask and generally try to progress in our understandings of the platform.
Branding the Meetup
I’ve been working on giving the meetup a bit of a face and was wondering what you think of it. We’re hoping to turn this event in something of a feature and one which will build in momentum. I’m also looking to form a proper network of WordPress enthusiasts. The designs below are inspired by some designs developed for a previous wordpress based project.
So let me know what you guys think of the logos and hopefully see those of you who can make it there. Please register by posting a comment on this post.
March 11, 2008
1st WordPress Meetup Cape Town – Post Mortem
Technorati Tags: wordpress,(un)conference,meetup,“cape town”
After struggling to prevent a few business people from hijacking the session with their own off topic focus, not mentioning any names, we managed to get stuck in talking about a few pertinent issues.
Those who attended were:
- Organiser, Callum Macdonald – Nomadic entrepreneur & web developer/blog master from Scotland
- Marc Pelteret – Business Science / Computer Science Graduate with an interest in open source development
- Christina de Silva, Online marketing strategist and wordpress enthusiast – AlterSage.com
- Nada Jones, sales & biz development executive – Work Online Interactive
- Chris – iMod
- Rob Wilkonson – Butlers Pizza (Energy Crisis Maniac) 🙂
- Will – 2oceansvibe.com
- Grant – mobi me
- Jamaal – Web Strategist at Jayz
What was spoken about?
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February 18, 2008
Finally a new face to nomad-one.com
It’s a proud moment for me to have flipped the switch on my new theme for nomad-one.com. Though I’m still ironing out a few bugs and need to fix up one or 2 visual elements, my impatience has just got the better of me and I had to go live with this today.
I’m hoping you guys will get involved and let me know what you think as well as point out any kinks there might be which I have missed out.
I’ve done tests in a few of the latest browsers and all seems well, though I think I was pushing it to expect IE 4 to have a clue what to do with this layout. This theme has Small Potato’s Wrath theme as it’s basis though you would never be able to tell that at a glance. Small P still has some of the best free themes out there so I made use of his expertise as a springboard for this one.
I wanted my new theme to be based on sandbox with it’s rich semantic markup and dynamically generated classes for styling freedom.
So tell me what you think so far and if you’ve managed to find any mistakes, which I’m sure there are. A few of the links might not be working so bear with me as I patch up a few things.
February 18, 2008
WordPress Meetup Cape Town – Monday 18 Feb
Finally it’s here, something I’ve been wanting to organise myself but haven’t managed to get around to doing, an (un)conference style wordpress meetup, and hopefully only the first of many to happen in Cape Town.
Callum Macdonald, nomadic web worker and travelling entrepreneur hailing from Scotland was responsible for setting the ball in motion after the recent Open Coffee which was recently held in Cape Town.
Visit the wordpress meetup google group or the blog to catch up with developments. Tomorrow is the first meetup and you’re required to register just so we can get an idea of the numbers for catering and logistical purposes.
The River Club[1] can provide us with a venue for R175 per person. That includes tea and coffees on arrival, a light dinner in the restaurant, and reasonable use of the internet (web only, no heavy downloading). So I’ve confirmed that booking for Monday 18th.
Leave a comment on this post to confirm attendance.
February 17, 2008
Web Guru Spotlight 3: nomad-one meets adii for coffee
Yesterday met with Adii(Adriaan Pienaar) of www.adii.co.za for a coffee and a chat. Adii is someone making quite a bit of noise in the South African & International wordpress community. He’s a self styled WordPress Rockstar and online entrepreneur of note. Though I’ve interacted with Adii digitally through his website, facebook and email, meeting someone in person still is the only way to get a real sense of the personality on the other side.

So who is Adii (Adriaan Pienaar)
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November 23, 2007