Barista Jam at Press Coffee

Last weekend, I attended a Barista Jam at Press Coffee over in Scottsdale. The shop owner wants to increase the quality of specialty coffee in the Valley. He invited baristas and coffee "people" to come to his shop to hang out. They provided food, a keg of beer, sodas and lots of coffee. I met a lot of people and generally had fun.

Press Coffee is starting to roast their own coffee. Currently, they are using a Behmor. They have purchased a Provat and will be opening a new roastery in about 60 days. They had a bag of Ethiopian coffee that they were roasting.

Pictures from the Barista Jam by Chris Tingon from Arizona Coffee blog.

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Me judging the latte art contest

Install PECL Uploadprogress on MediaTemple DV server

I used two links to help me install the PECL upload extension on my MediaTemple server.

First, turn on Development Tools in the MediaTemple account area.
The first article is for installing PECL memcache. Follow the instructions in the "Manual Compile PECL Extension with phpize" section as outlined, but replace memcache with uploadprogress. (PECL Manual Install on Linux Centos)
In the next article follow instructions 3, 4, and 5. (Installing PECL uploadprogress Extension for Drupal FileField 3.0 Module)

Hope this helps.