November 15th, 2008 by Jason Roe
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A new modeling agency Rogue Model Management is set to launch their Model Gallery next week. Some of the country’s latest top models will be taking to the catwalk next Wednesday (November 19th) for a spectacular evening, celebrating the launch of new agency Rogue Model Management.
The agency was set up last June by Fiona Roche, publicity manager for Lillie’s Bordello and the Porterhouse Group along with her business partner, photographer, Darren Butler. So far they have signed up 35 models, many of whom are well known in Ireland and a number of whom have featured on the international circuit.
The launch event, at Dakota in South William Street, starts at 7pm with cocktails and canapés and continues with a glittering display of designer labels by ten of the agency’s leading models.
Back to the calling on fashion / entertainment bloggers. If any of you fancy any invite to this exclusive event please let me know.
*Full disclosure: I do have a commercial connection to Rogue Model Management.
November 12th, 2008 by Jason Roe
I made this with a heap of brushes in photoshop .. let me know if you like it. I can confirm that I did not hurt my Geansai Gorm while making this!
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November 11th, 2008 by Jason Roe
As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin, I decided to arrange a Blogger / Webby / Twitter (whatever) meet-up for people in Dublin. The date is Thursday 27th (evening time), the venue has yet to be decided (Depends on the numbers) Details of venue below.
It has been suggested that we go for food followed by drinks. As a bonus, I have some freebies from Wordpress via @donncha to give away (badges and stickers).
If you are interested, drop me an email on Jason@jason-roe.com or Leave a comment below.
So far @lexia, Darragh, @czajkowski @mcawilliams, Alan O’Rourke , Elly Parker, Dave Davis, Justin Mason, Niall Kitson, Anthony,@forbairt @PixieVonDust @TheChrisD @prendio2 @dan.oneill, Neil , Marie and starfire are on board.. If i missed anyone please drop me a comment..
UPDATED PLAN
The plan is to meet up at the Porter House central from 6pm on Thursday 27th. (PH central located at the bottom of grafton street, across from the molly malone statue). We will get food, drinks and have our chats. After this (maybe 8:30/9pm ish) we might move on to Soundcheck, South William Street. It seems that Rick O’Shea is doing a DJ thing, we shall be acting as a rent a mob! - the rent
PS: I have approched a sponsor to give us some free drinks and/or food for the night. More info to come laters.
I would also really appreciated if anyone attending could slap up a blog post / and or tweet about this!
October 31st, 2008 by Jason Roe
I’m heading down to barcamp cork later this evening. The plan is to fly down on the 20:20 flight with Ryanair. Hopefully I will see you all there! If anyone is staying in the lancaster lodge let me know as a few of us staying three.
On another note Geansai Gorm has been launched by Damien Mulley, its basically a S E O competition to see who can rank for the term Geansai Gorm also known as Geansaí Gorm and can be translated from Irish to blue jumper.
My Gorm entry had some issues because of DNS problems. The site is not showing up yet and was only verified yesterday evening after the DNS holding page expired from googles DNS cache. Take a look at Google for the upcoming pages.
October 26th, 2008 by Jason Roe
For the last 3 weeks my blog has been running really, really slow. With the long weekend upon us, I decided to take some time to try and find / fix the issue. After 4 hours of poking around, it turned out to be a number of issues…
I assumed that when I moved to a blacknight VPS about 6 months ago something went a bit AWOL. I had a look at the server for CPU usage, memory, write speed & mysql and everything seemed to be fine. The main issue turned out to be with wordpress or a WP plugin.
When I looked at my wordpress database tables and noticed that I had 14,000 rows in the wp_options table. The rows consisted of rss requests from magpie. After I cleared them out I have seen an instant boost. The mysql query to do this is
Delete from `wp_options` where `option_name` LIKE ‘rss_%’;
This got me thinking about how I can speed up the blog a bit more. First port of call was wp-supercache.
Second thing I looked at was moving all my static files over to a CDN (content delivery network). I already had an Amazon s3 account setup, so I set up a new bucket with a CNAME’ed sub domain. I kept the same directory structure and redirected all css, gif, jpg, png & js files over to the CDN.
After all the tweaks I have reduced page load time from 15 seconds to 4/5 seconds.
Let me know if you spot any issues.
October 9th, 2008 by Jason Roe
The Irish Web Awards are on this Saturday (11th, 2008). One of our websites the Irish Independent (Yes I work for The Irish Independent now) has been nominated for Best Online Publication.
I will be there on the night with Carol Sweeny representing the Independent Digital Team. Pop over to us and have a chat .. my mug shot is over here (No, I couldn’t find a better photo!). Read the rest of this entry »
September 19th, 2008 by Jason Roe
The event will start at 11am on Saturday, September 20th. The location is The Digital Exchange, Crane St., Digital Hub, Dublin 8.
What can you expect?
Talks [approx. 30min. each]
11:00am Doors open - time to explore the venue
11:30am Paul O’Malley - What You Should Know About Software Freedom - from GNU to Ubuntu!
12:00pm Camara - “Who are we and what do we do?
12:30pm Glenn Strong (IFSO) - “DRM and Software Freedom” Read the rest of this entry »
September 18th, 2008 by Jason Roe
Eamon Leonard who was formally involved in TL01. Is planning to set up a new coworking space in Dublin. He already has Ken Stanley the self appointed “web standards legand” on board.
See coworking.ie for more details.
If your interested in getting involved leave a comment or pop Eamon an email.
Thanks to Laura for pointing out the thread on PHPug. PS: Coworking.ie is still alive!
August 26th, 2008 by Jason Roe
Yesterday I had the pleasure of helping Donncha O Caoimh out by contributing to the Wordpress Tweet Tweet plugin.
I added support for vodafone.ie free texts. You can now receive a SMS message (via vodafone.ie free text) when someone sends you a reply or direct message.
Try out the plugin and let us know what you think!
J.
August 18th, 2008 by Jason Roe
I seen a post by Laura about a cool book swapping thing. It reminded me that I have a bag of books (they WEIGH a TONNE) that need getting rid of! Before I do .. Before i go to this book swap thing I would like to offload some of them
So going for FREE are the following gems.. Please drop me a comment or contact me.
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