Continuing the in the spirit of trying something different (first with the Charter Tickets) the php|architect crew are trying something else for next year's TekX conference - dropping the unconference all together in favor of a Hack Track.
So after much deliberation and debate, we reached a simple conclusion: We're dropping the Unconference this year. (gasp) I know you're disappointed but in exchange we were able to add 6 more sessions to the 36 we had. Now we only had ~9 submissions for every speaking slot! Whew, problem solved. [...] So after a bit of eggnog, arguing with Marco & Cal, bribing Arbi with cookies, and another round of eggnog, we came up with another idea: Enter...the Hack Track.
The idea behind the Hack Track is that the conference provides the space/projectors/coffee/etc and the attendees are free to use the area to meet, share ideas and talk about their next great ideas.
Vinu Thomas has posted a tip for WordPress users working with scheduled posts and the "Missing Status" status that's caused by a bug in WordPress.
Ever since the upgrade to Wordpress 2.9, I've been having a problem in the scheduled posts in Wordpress. Everytime I set a post to be scheduled in the future, it used to miss the scheduled time and never get posted. When I checked the status of these posts in the posts admin area, each of these posts had the status "Missed Schedule" next to them.
To correct the issue, you need to make a change to the cron.php script for your installation (in wp-includes) to change the default timeout by quite a bit to ensure that the remote call has plenty of time to finish. It seems its related to the version of PHP's curl extension that's compiled into the web server installation.
As Johanna Cherry and Derick Rethans have a reminder for those wanting to get in on the Early Bird pricing for this year's PHP UK Conference 2010.
Today (Dec 31st, 2009) is the last chance for £100 registration to #phpuk2010 next month is £110!
You can find out more about the conference and what's included in the registration on the conference website or just reserve your spot immediately!