Travis Swicegood

Terry Chay isn't into orgies...

Published On
October 19 2007
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Travis Swicegood

So yesterday I'm listening to Ramblecast 2.0 when I did whatever the audio version of a double-take is. No, it wasn't the garbled noise and the "what the ----?! Guys! There's a laptop here!!". Nor was it Sara's Yahoo!'ing in the background (I wonder if that's in her contract - she has to do that every time someone mentions the company?). No, it was when someone mentioned Terry Chay's Internet is an Ogre talk. Not the e. Ogre, as in monster, Shrek, big green smelly thing.

I don't know how many times I'd seen that topic listed by various people online, and every - I mean absolutely every time I read it - my mind transmuted it into orgy. Seriously. I hadn't read the description of his talk, hadn't attended it, and until yesterday had never heard anyone call it by its name.

I even had the whole idea of the talk worked out. Web 2.0's all about sharing everything with everyone and right now everyone's getting a little dirty. It made sense to me. Looks like I wasn't the only one to make that mistake.

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Travis Swicegood is a professional programmer and owner of Domain51, a web development company with a focus on non-profits, NGOs, and online activists. He doesn't change the world, he supports those who do.

He has personal a focus on web applications, performance, and stability; is author of Pragmatic Version Control using Git; and working on his second book. He has been using PHP; since '99 and still remembers how revolutionary PHP 4 was, but can't remember why. He's a TDD, open-source, and open government advocate—sometimes called a zealot—and lurker on many an open-source project mailing list when not learning other programming; languages; for fun, exploring his surroundings on bike, or tasting his latest kitchen and home-brew creations.

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