Open source has won the battle but is losing the war
I’ve seen this graphic many times on Twitter over the last few days:
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 published and it ended up as the cover article:
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. One of the biggest similarities is that you really need to be careful about the behavior you model. For example, I often used to work weekends. Some Saturdays and Sundays, I’d send emails, make site changes and be noticeably busy.
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, you know that she has a unique and artistic flair. She put all of that talent into one of the most unique cards we’ve ever receieved. I apologize if my photos don’t do the quality of the card justice, but I thought it was worth sharing:
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 showing me some of his YouTube videos, including a TED talk from 2011. It’s a beautiful talk, and from the sounds of it, a fitting introduction to Todd and his ideas about being a great teacher:
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 WordPress started contributing in 2003 and 2004.
We sold Admincredible to Watchful
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 were two of the speakers at the first ever CMSExpo in Chicago. We’ve keep talking almost every week since. The summer, we reached a fork in the road with Admincredible. Members of our team were getting really busy in other areas of their life and at the same time the Admincredible platform needed a substantial extra investment to go where…
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: #1. Money. I’ve kids, a wife and a mortgage so I need to pay the bills. There’s rarely enough money in small projects to pay the bills and forks are always small projects. #2. Open source. I’m far more attached to open source than I am to any brand name such as Joomla, Drupal or WordPress. I work with open…
Can you help with my Joomla World Conference presentation?
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.
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 from my last teaching job. A spare bedroom to use as an office.