One of my wife’s high school friends, Todd Marrone, passed during Christmas. Todd worked as an art teacher in Philadelphia schools for 15 years. I never met him, but after hearing the news, my wife was telling me about him. She was…
We’ve reached a milestone of sorts. In the last few weeks I’m seeing a lot of people celebrating 10 years of contributing to open source. Many of the most prominent and inspiring people behind the growth of Joomla, Drupal and…
I’ve known Vic Drover for a long time now. We started talking when he launched one of the first ever commercial GPL businesses back in 2007. The next year, we did a Joomla class together in Las Vegas and then…
I’ve been heavily involved with Joomla and, to a lesser extent, Drupal for a good number of years now. During that time, I’ve seen forks come and go but they’ve never really sparked my interested. Here are 6 reasons why:…
I’m starting to think about my Joomla World Conference presentation for November. I’m planning to talk about how people become involved in open source projects and about the legacy they leave behind when they leave.
Six years ago, I quit teaching and became a full time web designer. At that point I had three things to my name: An old iBook laptop with more broken keys than working keys. Two months of summer holiday pay…
Here’s one of the subscribers we got to after advertising on Facebook for a week. We targeted only people in the U.S.:
I was watching the U.S. healthcare debate play out yesterday and it got me thinking. I thought back to when our own industry was dominated by legal arguments, most of them half-digested and poorly-sourced. Including my own. The GPL debates…
[UPDATE] I was nervous before posting this but want to thank everyone for the big response. I’ve heard from a lot of people today and the great thing is many of them agree: we need to raise our game. The…
I always cringe when seeing people try to build an open source rival to Facebook. Projects like Diaspora gain publicity as a nice idea, but get little real traction. However, I’ve come to believe that there is a potentially viable…