A Short but Honorable List
Someone asked me a question last night so I racked my brain and came up with the answer of “5”. I’m a little sad this list is so short. So, kudos to these open source events: DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon Denver…
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Someone asked me a question last night so I racked my brain and came up with the answer of “5”. I’m a little sad this list is so short. So, kudos to these open source events: DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon Denver…
Today is Halloween so it’s a good time to addresses a scary topic. After a baby-hiatus this summer, I’ve been back on the road again teaching a lot of Joomla and Drupal. I’m talking to a lot of end-users and…
In 2006 I quit my job to work full-time in open source. It was fortunate timing, because the years since then have seen extraordinary growth. What was once a hobby or a sideline has now taken over the web. It’s…
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…
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…
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…
Since we expanded into Drupal and WordPress training quite a few people have asked variations on these questions: “Are you abandoning Joomla?” “Do you think Drupal and WordPress are now better than Joomla?” The simple answers are no and no.…
Back in December 2006, we wrote the first comprehensive comparison of Drupal and Joomla. Over the next three years both projects have changed substantially, but the popularity of the original post hasn’t. Its been viewed nearly half-a-million times and still…
Am I alone in thinking that we’re doing Joomla beginners a big disservice by recommending that they start with a local installation? Almost every Joomla tutorial starts with a description of how to install Joomla on your computer and it…
That’s the clear conclusion of the data from Google Trends. Drupal has been substantially behind Joomla in popularity ever since the two projects were founded. WordPress has constantly grown its following and may even overtake Joomla this year, whereasDrupal has…