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August Meetup Summary
August 29, 2005

City HallWow, what a weekend!

Saturday morning, I put the finishing touches on my custom LAMPPIX boot CD. My goal - Create a CD that I could boot to demonstrate the might and power of WordPress 1.6 (not yet released, still in alpha) to the Philly WordPress Meetup group. I dumped WordPress 1.5.1.3, 1.5.2, 1.6, and 1.6-Owen onto the ISO, burnt it, started it up once to see it boot, and fled for the city.

I started out way early, and had time to stop at the Apple store in King of Prussia before heading on into the city. I have to admit that the Apple store is pretty alluring. I left without buying anything, though. (More on that topic in a follow-up post.) Even with the stopover (and the $2.75/gal for gas!) I got to Fergie's way early, and they were locked up. I wandered around the block a bit and noticed that there are quite a few cool places nearby to Fergie's. You could make a really full day in the city and fit the meetup in the middle.

But enough about the wonderment of the city and the delicious jerked pork sandwich I had for lunch (Aw, yeah), and let's talk about the meetup.

Philosophically- Categories versus Tags
August 29, 2005

There are a handful of tagging plugins for wordpress that let you associate keywords (aka "tags") to your posts for indexing.

For the uninitiated, when you write a post using one of these tagging plugins, a new field appears in the editor that lets you specify tags that classify your post. These tags are gathered by other sites, like Technorati, and let you see all posts people have written that use the same tag.

So why is tagging different from using categories?

Some people would say it isn't any different, and I would say that they're outright wrong. But I say that because of how I segregate tags and categories mentally.