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If you are into time lapse you must have checked the option of getting an Intervalometer. as you can see from the Canon and Nikon links an Intervalometer is not cheap. Not really expensive either, but definitely not cheap. So As usual I ask: what can you DIY about it?

Some cameras already have the time lapse feature built in, and Canon photographers can turn to CHDK for adding a time lapse feature. But there is a third, cooler version if you are into electronics (which I know lots of site readers are not afraid of).

Achim Sack - a super electronics engineer - has a project for building an intervalometer the size of a finger nail. It needs no power and learns the interval between shots as you go. If you are into embedded programming, this is a project for you, if not, "move along nothing to see..." [Image credit: tonyVC]

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Previously I've written about setting up APC and memcached on your desktop (or in my case laptop) using Acquia's handy stack installer (aka "DAMP"). This is another quick post in that vein.

The other main caching system I work with on a daily basis is the mind-blowingly-fast Varnish httpd accelerator. If you haven't checked it out yet, get on board (srsly; good MacOS instructions from Nate@lullabot here). I'm more than happy to maintain the Varnish integration module on drupal.org, but I've been bugged by my inability to take this work with me on airplanes and other offline places.

See, DAMP ships without the required socket support needed to "talk" to the Varnish control terminal. I'm not saying this is Acquia's fault. They can't put the kitchen sink in there, and most regular users will never miss the socket extension. Those of us who might, well, we can help ourselves, right?

Right! To get rolling, grab the source and untar it. As of this article, we're working off PHP 5.2.13, but this should be pretty solid advice for any 5.2.x release.

cd php-5.2.13
./configure --with-sockets=shared
make
cp modules/sockets.so /Applications/acquia-drupal/php/ext/

Then add the following to the bottom of your /Applications/acquia-drupal/php/bin/php.ini:

[sockets]
; Sockets are useful!
extension=sockets.so

Restart your DAMP application and hit up your friendly local phpinfo() and you should see a section for sockets. Enjoy talking directly to network interfaces! :)

Josh Koenig

Start:  2010-08-07 09:00 - 2010-08-08 15:30 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:  Chris Charlton mike stewart jromine christefano rainbreaw nbluto thund3rbox jbluto snelson

Registration is now open for DrupalCamp LA 2010. Mark your calendars for Saturday & Sunday, August 7-8th, 2010. Attendance is free. The camp will be taking place in the same great venue from last year - UC Irvine in the city of Irvine, California. The campus has housing available if you wish to rent rooms to stay overnight.

If you registered last year then your account is already setup and you just need to login and edit your profile to mark what days you plan to attend.

Free to attend. Parking costs about $8-12 per day. Lunch is not provided but you can bring your own or buy a food pass from the cafeteria on campus (which people liked last year). Nighttime private camp party on Saturday 7PM-MIDNIGHT sponsored by MediaTemple.

SPONSORS

Warner Music Group

Media Temple

Achieve Internet

Volacci

Tropo

Stauffer New Media Development

Monstrositee

Commerce Guys

WHAT PEOPLE LEARN EACH YEAR AT DrupalCamp LA

• Drupal 6 & 7
• Drupal Basics
• Business with Drupal
• Administering & Maintaining Drupal
• Building with Drupal
• Drush
• PHP & SQL
• Designing & Developing for Drupal
• Drupal Themes & Modules
• Contributing back to Drupal, and more!

http://2010.drupalcampla.com

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS & CONTRIBUTORS

The Henry Samueli School of Engineering University of California Irvine
Acquia
Intrinsic Web Designs
SunRain Productions
Cherry Hill Co
Development Seed
Sage Tree Solutions

New site design provided by SoCal's premier Drupal agency This By Them, creators of the 2009 site.

http://2010.drupalcampla.com

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

By sponsoring our camp you get exposure and praise from our community mixed with networking possibilities during the entire camp. Due to budget cuts recently experienced by state schools in California, however, UC Irvine's costs have gone up, meaning our costs for the camp have also risen. We are charged with the task of raising upwards of $10,000 this year in order to fund the event our community has come to expect. Please consider sponsoring. Contact an organizer today.

Sponsor get their names/logo/link on our camp site, camp signs, maps & pamphlets, videos, our tweets - anything we can think of. If you want to make your presence known in the SoCal Drupal community then you want in on this. Visit http://2010.drupalcampla.com/sponsorship for more details.

RAFFLE PRIZES

Each day a dozen winners will be announced and each will get to choose a Drupal related prizes.

• Book publishers currently sponsoring the camp prizes are O'Reilly, Apress, and Packt Publishing.

• Two special winners will win full 1-month passes to Lynda.com on behalf of Drupal author & community leader Chris Charlton, author of Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes online video training.

• Creators of the jQuery & Drupal plug-ins for Adobe Dreamweaver & Eclipse IDE, XTND.US are providing two awesome "CSS Ninja" shirts, check out the shirts below or at: http://www.zazzle.com/css_ninja_style_class_tshirt-235091799113607617)

DrupalCamp LA APPAREL

At the camp we will be selling awesome new t-shirts for only $10! That's 50% off the online price. Our 2009 camp shirt is also (still) available and you can order yours before the camp!

This is the shirt being raffled off by XTND.US. You can order your own online.

Get more info about DrupalCamp LA

http://2010.drupalcampla.com

Sponsorship information available at http://2010.drupalcampla.com/sponsorship

Drupalcamp or Regional Summit Ventura DrupalChris Charlton

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I know mac's are priced high but a canon charger for 5 billion dollars? Why throw in the 99 cents at that point?

Note that when I went to MacMall it was actually priced at 66.99. I'm guessing something went a little haywire in the display of prices by the Invisible Hand plugin for firefox.

This Wave photography Primer was written by Dane Grady.

Below, you will find an introductory guide to the beautiful art of Wave Photography, covering all the key components, from choosing a camera to finding the right kind of waves. Enjoy the ride!

Before I can cover what kind of gear you need for Wave Photography, Safety is EXTREMELY important! You should have knowledge of the ocean and ocean currents, and have experience in and be more than comfortable in the surf. Know the area you want to shoot, study the conditions… “know before you go”

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This Wave photography Primer was written by Dane Grady.

Below, you will find an introductory guide to the beautiful art of Wave Photography, covering all the key components, from choosing a camera to finding the right kind of waves. Enjoy the ride!

Before I can cover what kind of gear you need for Wave Photography, Safety is EXTREMELY important! You should have knowledge of the ocean and ocean currents, and have experience in and be more than comfortable in the surf. Know the area you want to shoot, study the conditions… “know before you go”

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In one year: (2007)

• My wife divorced me, and took my life savings.
• 90% of my company was no longer mine, on a technicality.
• My apartment was destroyed, so I slept and showered in the warehouse.
• All my employees, led by my good friend and VP, led a mutiny against me. (I never returned, and never saw them again.)
• I invested everything I had left in a very conservative fund, which fell 50% immediately, and never came back.
• I invested everything I had left in a different conservative fund, which also fell 50%, and never came back.
• The woman I was madly in love with married the guy she would always complain to me about.

Two weeks after that year ended, three companies called asking if I wanted to sell my company. Though I had said no to that question for ten years, this time I said yes.

I had messed up so bad, I had to walk away. I had done everything wrong, and needed to cleanse myself of all those bad decisions. I needed to take some time to learn from my mistakes, and replace my thoughts with new ones. A self-made back-to-schooling.

I look back at that year, and know it won't get much worse. If I can handle that, I can handle anything.

The company sale was announced. The first time someone said “congratulations” I said, “For what? I messed up so bad I lost my baby. That's nothing to congratulate.” (For future congratulations, I just shrug.)

We all underestimate our ability to massively change our life when it's gone off track.

Say “no” where you used to say “yes”. Say “yes” where you used to say “no”. Do the thing that scares you the most, then get up and go.

For those of you considering a massive change, I can tell you from experience:

It's awesome here on the other side.

I received an inspiring gift from a friend the other day that I thought I’d share with you here. Chew on it over the weekend. Hopefully this resonates with the creative part in you as it did with me. I made me want to make stuff even more and share it with the world. It is a confidential prospectus for a new magazine:
THE PURPOSE: To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud; to see strange things – machines, armies, multitudes, shadows in the jungle and on the moon; to see our work – our paintings, towers and discoveries; to see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to: the women that men love and many children; to see and to take pleasure in seeing; to see and be amazed; to see and be instructed; Thus to see, and to be shown, is now the will and new expectancy of half of humankind. To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by a new kind of publication, THE SHOW-BOOK OF THE WORLD, hereinafter described…

This new magazine? LIFE. This is the opening paragraph from Henry R. Luce’s 1936 original, confidential prospectus for what became LIFE Magazine. I couldn’t help but be wildly inspired by the concept. It’s a passionately written piece on the power and potential of photography, as well as a wonderful slice of history.

We all know the plight of magazines, but this gave me hope for their new era, whatever it might look like. Just think about how much more wildly capable we are today to actually deliver on this purpose and this promise. We have the internet. We have devices, screens and even still papers in places where there are no screens or fiber channel chords-to share now more than ever before. More than ever before we have our cameras with us day everyday and the means to digitally pipe this information around the world in a millisecond. The rest of this prospectus is worth a read. Link for download is after the jump.

A downloadable pdf of the original LIFE Magazine prospectus is here.

Enjoy and share. Have a great holiday weekend.
*note that I inserted gender neutral rhetoric in two places. Reference the original on the pdf if you care….

Thanks @johnnyvulkan for the gift.

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The Columbus Park of Roses hosted the Stop and Smell the Roses event put on by the Park of Roses Foundation and the Columbus Recreation and Parks on Saturday, June 12, 2010.

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The petals of a rose is lightly sprinked with rain drops as a light rain starts to fall during the Stop and Smell the Roses event put on by the Park of Roses Foundation and the Columbus Recreation and Parks at the Whetstone Park of Roses on Saturday, June 12, 2010.

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A Golden Wings rose during the Stop and Smell the Roses event at the Whetstone Park of Roses on Saturday, June 12, 2010.

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Bob Neel of Zainesville, Ohio smells a rose during the Stop and Smell the Roses event put on by the Park of Roses Foundation and the Columbus Recreation and Parks at the Whetstone Park of Roses on Saturday, June 12, 2010.

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Abby Brammer of Westerville wanders the rose gardens taking pictures during the Stop and Smell the Roses event put on by the Park of Roses Foundation and the Columbus Recreation and Parks at the Whetstone Park of Roses on Saturday, June 12, 2010.

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Umbrellas pop up in the park as rain showers start to fall as peole wander the park to take in the sight and smells during the Stop and Smell the Roses event put on by the Park of Roses Foundation and the Columbus Recreation and Parks at the Whetstone Park of Roses on Saturday, June 12, 2010.

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A Gold Medal rose during the Stop and Smell the Roses event at the Whetstone Park of Roses on Saturday, June 12, 2010.

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Ruth Ann Sturgill of Lima, Ohio works on a painting during the Stop and Smell the Roses event put on by the Park of Roses Foundation and the Columbus Recreation and Parks at the Whetstone Park of Roses on Saturday, June 12, 2010. Sturgill is the vice president of the Ohio Plein Air Society which was one of two groups of artists along with unaffiliated painters that were at the park. The other group is the Ohio Plein Aire.

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A Golden Wings rose during the Stop and Smell the Roses event at the Whetstone Park of Roses on Saturday, June 12, 2010.

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Kristin Jones and her father Christopher look over the gardens at the Whetstone Park of Roses during the Stop and Smell the Roses event put on by the Park of Roses Foundation and the Columbus Recreation and Parks on Saturday, June 12, 2010. The Jones are from Cleveland but Kristin now lives in the OSU area after graduating from The Ohio State University.

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A pink rose during the Stop and Smell the Roses event at the Whetstone Park of Roses on Saturday, June 12, 2010.

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Painter Carol Cosgrove of Hilliard sets up at the start of the Stop and Smell the Roses event put on by the Park of Roses Foundation and the Columbus Recreation and Parks at the Whetstone Park of Roses on Saturday, June 12, 2010. Cosgrove is with the Ohio Plein Air Society.