• Listening to Charles Strickland, Jonathan Bailey of PlagiarismToday, Mark Jaquith, March Ghosh, and Matt Mullenweg joined together to live record the 39th episode of The WordPress Podcast.
• Aaron Brazell went over WordPress FAQs. Topics covered included the epic categories vs. tags, what is GPL (what is free, for that matter>), and the two different types of “hooks” (filters & actions) available to plugin and theme developers.
• Mark Ghosh, Liz Strauss, Matt Mullenweg, and Aaron Brazell covered business-blogging best practices in their panel The Business of Blogging
• Jacob Santos explained “unit testing” in his Testing with WordPress. Interested in learning how to patch the WordPRess Core?

That about wraps it up. I may end up coming back to these posts to add more information in the following days. All in all WordCamp Dallas 2008 has been great and, at only $20 registration, it’s been a steal too! Many thanks to all the folks who worked to put this event together.

Today was day one and it’s been very informative thus far. Highlights include:

• Matt Mullenweg announced the official release of WordPress 2.5 during his talk this morning! You can download it and it’s Dashboard/Admin goodness at http://wordpress.org.
• John Pozadzides listed 45 very good and thorough ways to power up your blog. Most of his points were targeted at bloggers who write for an audience, but I believe that many of his points can be applied to a smaller, personal site like mine as well.
• Jonathan Bailey covered Copyright, Creative Commons, content theft and the detection/prevention/obstruction thereof, and everything in between. I don’t consider many of the issues he discussed to be applicable to myself, but they are definitely important to my clients. Of course, if I’m ever hit with a DMCA notice then Bailey’s talk would be very beneficial indeed.
• Listening to Lorelle share her power blogging tips (and take WordPress to task for anything that bothered her in the least bit) was great. She’s a firecracker.

Thanks to Paul for alerting me to this mini-conference.