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Photos From Virgin Airline’s DFW Launch Party with Richard Branson and Willie Nelson

by John P.

Last week I headed on down to the Dallas Opera for the Virgin America party to commemorate the commencement of service from LAX to DFW airport. This marks Virgin’s arrival into the Dallas area, which is extremely signifigant because Dallas is the headquarters for two major airlines, American and Southwest, and DFW is also:

  • Fourth largest airport in the world by land area.
  • Third busiest as measured by aircraft movement.
  • Eighth busiest in terms of passenger transport.
  • So big it has its own post office, ZIP code, and public services.

And Virgin clearly understands the signifigance of reaching into the DFW metroplex with its 6.5 million plus residents. So much so that Sir Richard Branson himself was present for the opening, and he brought along a surprise guest to entertain the attendees – Willie Nelson!
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A Photographic Journey to the Dallas Farmer’s Market

September 13, 2010
Fresh Cut Watermellon

Last weekend I took a trip to the Dallas Farmer’s Market with Lorelle VanFossen and Cali Lewis. While we were there we enjoyed the sights, sounds and free samples of one of the largest Farmer’s Markets in the world. I had taken along the trusty Canon 1D camera and was snapping away while wandering around. [...]

How To Create A Local WordPress Install | WordCamp Dallas 2009

January 17, 2010

Matthew “Spamboy” McGarity shows us how to preform a local installation of wordpress. This allows a user to have an installation of wordpress on a USB drive, portable hard drive or just their local machine. With this local install, a user now has a complete WordPress development environment separate from his or her live WordPress [...]

WordCamp Dallas 2009: Giovanni Gallucci – Top 10 Extreme Social Media Hacks

August 10, 2009

Giovanni Gallucci gave a fantastic lecture at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on the Top 10 Extreme Social Media Hacks. It was an action packed 45 minutes with more suggestions coming at the attendees than most could take notes for. Luckily we’ve got the whole thing captured on video, so we can catch up on everything missed. [...]

WordCamp Dallas 2009: The WordCamp Panel Discussion

July 21, 2009

Many thanks to Dave Curlee for recording and editing all of the upcoming WordCamp Dallas videos. Seriously folks, please show him some love for the hundred or so hours he has spent recording, editing and posting these for us. This is the first of the videos filmed at WordCamp Dallas 2009 a few weeks ago [...]

WordCamp Dallas 2008: Jacob Santos on WordPress Testing

April 15, 2008

Jacob Santos gave a lecture at WordCamp Dallas on WordPress testing in which he makes a strong argument for destructive testing of WordPress as a means to improvement. When you think of a project like WordPress that powers millions of blogs, it’s hard to imagine all of the infinite ways that people will test the [...]

WordCamp Dallas 2008: Panel – The Business of Blogging

April 13, 2008

I had the honor and privilege of moderating a power packed panel at WordCamp Dallas comprised of Matt Mullenweg, Mark Ghosh, Liz Strauss and Aaron Brazell on the topic “The Business of Blogging”. The panelists discussed how businesses of any size might better incorporate blogging and other forms of new media into their marketing and [...]

WordCamp Dallas 2008: Chris Smith on SEO for Bloggers

April 12, 2008

Next in the lineup of WordCamp Dallas speakers is Chris Smith, Lead GravityStream Strategist at Netconcepts, who lectured on Search Engine Optimization for Bloggers. Chris has five patents pending for his work on local search and presentation technologies, and his specialization centers around natural search optimization. Incidentally, there are two more WordCamp Videos still to [...]

WordCamp Dallas 2008: Jonathan Bailey – How to Prevent, Detect and Stop Content Theft

April 10, 2008

Jonathan Bailey, of Plagiarism Today, gave a fantastic lecture at WordCamp Dallas 2008 in Frisco, TX entitled “How to Prevent, Detect and Stop Content Theft” which was a fantastic discussion about things you can to protect your content. Oh, and you can also hear Jonathan over on the WordPress Podcast, which he co-hosts along with [...]

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