Category Steve’s Blog

Joomla cover article in Web Designer Mag

I was approached by Web Designer Mag a couple of months ago to write an article about Joomla. I’ve written for them before, but this was a much longer article which gave 20 reasons to use Joomla. It’s just been…

Never be seen working on the weekend

I’ve always thought of myself as teacher. But, as OSTraining has grown in the last several years, I’ve found myself moving into the role of a manager rather than a teacher.  Still, the two roles have a lot in common.…

A card from Chiara

This year, I had the pleasure of doing some work with Chiara from UntilSunday.it. Chiara helped redesign our logo and brand at OSTraining. At the end of the year, we got a card from Chiara. If you’ve ever met Chiara,…

Todd Marrone: There’s Not One Correct Answer

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…

10 Years of contributing to open source

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…

6 reasons why I’m not much interested in forks

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:…

On Working From Home

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…