Want to go to SXSWi but didn’t get it together in time? We’re giving away 2 full conference passes + 2 VIP (mt) Closing Party passes to two lucky (mt) fans….

UPDATE: And the winners are…

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Matthew Chandler can’t make it.  He has given his pass to Bryan Andaya.

Roy Vergara

Bryan Andaya

Congrats to the both of you! See you at SXSWi!

Ride the Lightning! (or the bull)..Regardless, it’s going to be an awesome ride.

The 5th annual SXSWi (mt) Media Temple closing party is a living thing that we can no longer contain.
We booked the best bands, stocked the bar with the best liquor, and have taken some pretty serious measures to ensure this will be the perfect ending to the most interesting tech conference in the world - and it’s all going down Tuesday, March 16th at 8PM…

Long time partner, Kiva.org, recently granted us some insight into their operations. Our partnership began in 2006 and we are proud to have been part of the early stages from start up to enterprise. They have graduated onto maintaining their very own hosting environment.  It’s a very big step forward for Kiva and we’re excited for their phenomenal success!

Update!! Here are our two lucky winners! Congrats!

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Scott Carter couldn’t make it, so we picked our second choice!

Eric Smith
Jonathan Steinmann

Future of Web Apps, a cornerstone of Carsonified events and a true weather-vane in web app development trends, is also one of our favorite excuses to get out of the office.  FOWA Miami goes way beyond the normal web conference experience by combining brilliant minds with fantastic Miami!

Keeping with recent tradition, we’re focusing our collective give-away powers to produce 2 FOWA Miami conference passes with access to the VIP dinner for two lucky web developers + web hosting for life on a (dv) Server!

To win this glamorous prize, comment on this blog post and let us know in 2 sentences why you are THE most qualified person to win this prize.

Please Note:  The FOWA passes do not include airfare or hotel.

Update: Comments are now closed. Winners will be announced Monday, February 15th!

Our very own Chris Lea, architect and driving force behind the Virb infrastructure and startup rock-star consultant passes on his priceless knowledge on how to bulletproof your MySQL backups. Follow Chris’s instructions on Think Vitamin and you will rest easier knowing that you have good, safe backups of your database.

Think Vitamin is the official blog of Carsonified, a long time (mt) partner . Think Vitamin is a member of the Smashing Network and overall awesome resource created by the prolific web professional, Ryan Carson

After 14 days, over 600 AMAZING entries and countless hours of judging some of the most impressive uses of jQuery ever gathered in one place, we finally have our Grand Prize, MacBook Pro winner… David Kaneda and his jQTouch plugin.

David describes it as “a jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.” We describe it as a totally awesome way to make your iPhone web apps behave more like native apps, and enable developers everywhere to leverage the power of jQuery for rapid web development.

To check out of all of the winners, head on over to the contest page, and stay tuned to our twitter for the next (mt) giveaway… coming soon.

Special thanks to jQuery, and our awesome group of judges!

Jquery and (mt) Media Temple are welcoming the release of JQuery 1.4 with a much celebrated launch, one day at a time.  What’s that mean?  Starting on January 14th (the B-day of JQuery) the JQuery team will release exclusive bits of code and content from 1.4 every day, for 14 days.  (mt) Media Temple will be matching that excitement with a daily JQuery contest, awarding hosting prizes and one grand prize winner!

(mt) has enhanced the security of customer accounts with a new feature called “Support PINs”. Requested by users desiring stronger privacy for their passwords, “Support PINs” allow customers to optionally generate temporary passwords inside the AccountCenter. This new measure keeps your password both verbally and electronically private inside an encrypted database at all times.

Check out our KB for more information on how it works! Thank you.

It’s time for some more news about the GRID. In this session, we’ll cover:

• Gen 2 Upgrade – 100% complete!
• MySQL stability
• More processing power
• Email improvements
• Cluster 6 — Coming Soon
• Updated 1-Clicks
• (cs) update