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Singapore PHP meetup 08 is all about CMSes. And we are fortunate to have presentations on Druid, Joomla and Drupal. Now, does Wordpress feel lonely for a moment?

Comment moderation on BayWords. Does it goes against the concept of Freedom of Speech?

The Pirate Bay is launching a free blogging service called BayWords. It protect freedom of speech and the site is void of censorship if the blog is within Swedish Laws.

How to piss off your users and lose friends. A very interesting title to capture my attention.
Dale Carnegie could just turn in his grave.
Jokes aside. Here we are at the final presentation for the technical track. Kelly Choo start off with a video. A trailer for a movie titled how to lose friend and alienate [...]

Moving on, we are moving on the the presentation by Adrian Quek and Chee Tji Hun, both CodeCrew from Ablewise.com Free Classifieds. Chee for one is wearing singlet while Adrian is busy setting up the laptop.
 

 
Firstly covered are the prerequisites for creating a facebook app.

A facebook account
Add the developer app at http://facebook.com/developers/
A web server to [...]

We hereby move to the technical track. The first presenter is Jocelyn from Microsoft.

She will cover facebook app development with .Net, especially facebook developer toolkit.
She will cover 2 type of facebook apps. One that sit on top of facebook api. And the another that stands alone but uses facebook data.
She now demonstrate a download for [...]

Today I am engaged to cover the 2nd facebook garage held in Singapore. Jointly organized by e27 Singapore and PHP Meetup group Singapore. Venue is kindly provided Microsoft Singapore.
So there is some time left before the actual start of the event. Meanwhile early birds can help themselves to the food.
Officially we are underway. Michael is [...]

Once a Wordpress blog is up, the first thing to do is to set up counter spam measures. Surely it is a hassle to start with but as the blog gets more popular, spammers with find their way to you. And there are plenty of anti spam Wordpress plugins out there and picking them up is pretty easy. Here are my choice of anti spam Wordpress plugins.