Sat, Jun 22, 2002; by Jim Armstrong, California Cafe Racers Homesite.

This morning I got an email that one of a handful of internet web developers had died in a motorcycle accident.

Greg Allan a.k.a. Adam_Baum, the lead core developer and one of the four founding members of the PostNuke CMS Development Project passed away from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. The accident occurred June 16, 2002 near his home in Meaford, Ontario in Canada.

Greg Allan was a humble and personable man who always downplayed his considerable skills. He was a self-taught coder who contributed to every aspect of development from cleaning up other people's code to writing new and innovative software.

Greg was an invaluable asset to the PostNuke development team, and a dear and trusted friend and co-worker to people on every continent. Through this first year of PostNuke's existence, Greg's personable and giving nature has been a guiding light and inspiration to many people and projects that have shaped the development landscape and social personality of the PostNuke project.

Surviving Greg are his parents, Bob and Leone Allan, his brother Brian, his girlfriend Kim along with her two children Kristin and Kassandra, his dog Chevy, and trusted friends Dean and Natasha.

In memory of Greg and out of respect for all those mourning his passing, all PostNuke development and official support activity has been suspended for one week. We urge all those using PostNuke to post a copy of this article on each of your PostNuke-Powered sites to commemorate the memory and accomplishments of Adam_Baum. Please refer your condolences and comments to the memorial article on postnuke.com.

For funeral arrangements, flower delivery information and memorial contributions, please email steve@grape.dyndns.org.

On behalf of the PostNuke Development Team,

Steve MacGregor (grape)

Support Operations Manager

 

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Godspeed Greg.

[aka obituaries a la blog]

New logos-non-gratas [sic] of the day.

Even in light of "1984", we would be better served by reducing our bloated vocabularies than by augmenting them. Each person introducing a new bit of jargon is obliged to condemn two existing terms that can be demonstrated to make us less intelligent with each use. [Advogato]

Didn't the French adopt restriction as a solution to vocabulary polution and drift? One of the glories of English is its borg-like ability to welcome new words.

As for coining, I know I'm discovering something new and innovative when no jargon exists to describe the idea.

I mean, where would we be without Pubchalking?

A Top10 search on today's Daypop with no results. None in Google either.

Chalk marks on pavement outside BT HQ. Suits ask geeks. "They point to nearby pubs. All the rage. I think it's called Pub Chalking."

Earlier that morning, Martin, tired of losing customers to Starbucks, tries to bring an upscale crowd back to the Pig & Whistle. Chalk in hand...

The night before, Ben and Larry, intoxicated with successfully rigging WiFi outside the local phone company, decide to celebrate. Many pints later....  

Jake Savin [jake@userland.com] posted in his comments pointers to:

1. a macro: Drop listCategoriesForPost.txt into your Macros folder.
2. the code for your Item template that calls it:  

<%local (adrpost = @weblogData.posts.["<%paddedItemNum%>"]); listCategoriesForPost (adrpost)%>

Thanks, Jake! A better way than mine: logic pushed from the template to the macro.

Thanks also to Rick and Roland for pointing the way.