Wonderfully smart readers … I need to pick your brains. We’ve been using Pingdom for years to track our sites. I love it. When sites go down it sends out an automatic email, SMS and even a message via an…
We’ve been to over 50 cities in North America from Anchorage in Alaska to Miami in Florida. There aren’t many places left on the list of place we’d like to teach. There’s Hawaii of course (we very nearly had a…
One of my Joomla clients has been hacked by a phishing scheme and it has been a major pain to cleanup. Besides being behind a couple versions in their Joomla, there are multiple third party components installed. I have been…
Out of all the blog posts I’ve read this year, one has stuck in my mind more than any other: Why [the] open source crowd should stop crowing about Ning’s problems. He takes on Drupal and KickApps for their lack…
My apologies for the lack of blog posts here over the last few months. Between the Open Source Matters board and getting a new company off the ground with Open Source Training it’s been a hectic year. In the last…
This was the third year of the CMS Expo in Chicago and it took another leap forward. Rather than getting lost in downtown or suburban Chicago they’ve moved to the suburb of Evanston, right on the lake and next to…
This week’s tutorial is the second of a two-parter. We’ve had several students in our classes looking to build websites with multiple content authors … blogs, newspapers, university sites and more. A common request is to improve Drupal’s default handling…
This tutorial is the answer to two questions we’ve been asked repeatedly: How can I automatically link keywords to the appropriate websites? How can I use internal links for links on my site? Essentially they’re looking to change a link…
Lots of websites use a discussion forum to help their users. Some websites have forums for people to chat freely on whatever topic they choose. Other websites use forums to provide support. People post their questions and staff members reply…
The Joomla team is happy to announce that they’re moving beyond T-shirts, hoodies and bags. They’ve decided that the Joomla community needs a sexier and more athletic way to show their love for Joomla. So say hello to the “Joola-Hoop”.…