One of the blogging philosophies I tried to keep to is to use this site is to use it as a test case for Joomla. I figure, at the very least I can provide information with real world examples of different ways you can screw up running a blog, and things you should avoid!
My day to day is spent over at Joomlashack, and sometimes this site doesn't get the care and attention it needs, so last week...
Yesterday I have gave a presentation at the Dutch T-Dose event at the University of Applied Science in Eindhoven about continuous integration. I have uploaded my presentation to slideshare for those who are interested.
Exactly a year ago JFoobar was started, time to have a small party. What started as a birth day present from Arno, turned out to be a blogging initiative from a group of people. A total of 260 blogs have been produces past year, this is an average of 0.7 blog posts per day...not bad, since we tried to release quality blogs which I hope we succeeded with. The upcoming year it will be pretty...
Some time ago I have been invited to attend the Wisconsin User Group meeting. JUG's are the best example of local communities gathering together, and it is a real honor for me that I have been invited. I most likely will meet some old Joomla friend there, I won't travel alone since my buddy Michel Agtmaal from Open Source Support Desk is joining me to visit the JUG.
On the Friday we will...
The term 'Continuous Integration' originated with the Extreme Programming development process, as one of its original twelve practices. When I started developing in open source we worked together with a group of open source (volunteer) developers, having some basic infrastructure like version control and coding guidelines in place. But every individual developer was responsible for the...
Just 2 days ago eZ Systems released eZ Publish 4.2. As the title points out, this release focusses on Usability, Scalability and Enterprise Search. You can read the full community announcement here, and the developer announcement including full details on new features and fixes here.
I've already taken this new version for a spin on my localhost and I must say I'm impressed. Not only does...
I have previously blogged about online reputational management, but a more recent event came my way today, and I thought it was interesting to see the effects over a longer term, and the dismal response from the company involved.
Last year United Airlines hit the press about breaking somebody's guitar.
Not such huge news probably, United has lots of passengers, and probably damages lots of...
At Joomlashack, we know that as on online business, email deliverability is very important. Whether sending newsletters or transactional emails from systems, they won't do much good if they don't reach people's inbox.
We use iContact for our newsletters, and have had great success with it. Recently though, we have been looking at supplementing it with another system for our transactional...
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