Category Personal

My grandfather Leslie passed away this week at the age of 93. He was a rock for our family, and remained mentally and physically strong until the very end. Even a few days before he passed, he was healthy enough…

Next week we leave Georgia after 10 years. My first experience of Georgia was as a kid. My grandparents loved, loved, loved “Gone With the Wind”. They had it on 4 or 5 VHS tapes and watched it almost weekly.…

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…

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:…

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…

Alledia.com had a really great six year run. But, I’ve moved everything over to SteveBurge.com. I moved for several reasons: 1) Urgency. OSTraining traffic is going up, up, up. Visitor numbers are way, way higher than this time last year.…

Remember that new product mentioned on the blog at the beginning of May? I’m delighted to say that things are coming along great. The name of the product is Admincredible and I know you’re going to love it. We’ve absolutely loved…

Tonight at the Joomla User Group in Atlanta I’ll be giving the first public peek inside our new business. Details of how to attend are here: I’m really excited about this project: It involves a lot of great Joomla…