10 Reasons Other Open Source Projects Are Not Your Enemy
This post has been a long time coming … like almost everything on my blog these days 🙂 It’s a rant of sorts and a little over the top, but it sums up what I’ve been thinking for a while.…
Steve
The Pros and Cons of Distributions
It’s been far too long since I blogged. I’ve got a few good excuses such as a baby, a business, a book, the OSM board and almost weekly trips around the U.S. However, I’ve also got a few good topics…
Why We Always Give Refunds
This might be the most expensive blog post I’ve ever written, but here goes … This week I was talking to a developer who sells open source products and their attitude was that they fight even single customer refund request..…
Joomla Usability Project Starts to Roll
A few weeks back I made a deliberately provocative post entitled “Even WordPress Usability Sucks” and ended with the suggestion that Joomla form a Usability team. It looks like one is starting to roll. Congrats to Kyle from Joomlapraise, Chris…
Automatic Notifications of Errors on Your Joomla Site
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’re Bringing Joomla and Drupal to Boston
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…
Your Thoughts on Joomla Security Extensions?
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…
Even WordPress Usability Sucks
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…
Apologies for the Blogging Absence
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…
Recap of CMS Expo 2010
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…