Chris Pirillo » cms http://chris.pirillo.com News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:35:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 © chris@pirillo.com () chris@pirillo.com() Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. chris@pirillo.com No no http://chris.pirillo.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgChris Pirillohttp://chris.pirillo.com 144 144 The Open Source Community Project Named Gnomepalhttp://chris.pirillo.com/the-open-source-community-project-named-gnomepal/ http://chris.pirillo.com/the-open-source-community-project-named-gnomepal/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:00:19 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/03/29/the-open-source-community-project-named-gnomepal/ The Open Source Community Project Named Gnomepal is a post from Chris Pirillo

The last few days have been a whirlwind of backchannel (and front-facing) activity surrounding my call-to-action. 95% of the feedback has been positive AND productive, with some of my favorite responses coming from people who had working code to donate – and a nod from Dries on one of Adam’s follow-up posts.

It was most heartening to see that Hans pretty much echoed our same concerns and directives – which means we’re definitely scooting down the right path.

In about an hour, we’ll officially be starting down the path of live dogfooding the project that is now known as Gnomepal. This means, we will be building out our needs as a community for this particular community project. Like anything, we have to start somewhere – and Gnomepal.org is it. If you’d like to join the discussion list, we have one set up.

We are planning to be active in #drupal-gnomepal on irc.freenode.net, and anybody can download the living code on the Assembla page (which contains a wiki that needs fleshing out, Trac, svn, trouble tickets, Milestones, etc.). If you would like to join the effort in development, documentation, organization, etc. – just let us know (and I could certainly use some help in wrangling folks). I’m working on getting a mailman list set up on my server, but for some reason it hasn’t been cooperating with us lately.

That’s all for now. I need some coffee to wake up. You?

]]> The Open Source Community Project Named Gnomepal is a post from Chris Pirillo

The last few days have been a whirlwind of backchannel (and front-facing) activity surrounding my call-to-action. 95% of the feedback has been positive AND productive, with some of my favorite responses coming from people who had working code to donate – and a nod from Dries on one of Adam’s follow-up posts.

It was most heartening to see that Hans pretty much echoed our same concerns and directives – which means we’re definitely scooting down the right path.

In about an hour, we’ll officially be starting down the path of live dogfooding the project that is now known as Gnomepal. This means, we will be building out our needs as a community for this particular community project. Like anything, we have to start somewhere – and Gnomepal.org is it. If you’d like to join the discussion list, we have one set up.

We are planning to be active in #drupal-gnomepal on irc.freenode.net, and anybody can download the living code on the Assembla page (which contains a wiki that needs fleshing out, Trac, svn, trouble tickets, Milestones, etc.). If you would like to join the effort in development, documentation, organization, etc. – just let us know (and I could certainly use some help in wrangling folks). I’m working on getting a mailman list set up on my server, but for some reason it hasn’t been cooperating with us lately.

That’s all for now. I need some coffee to wake up. You?

]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/the-open-source-community-project-named-gnomepal/feed/ 22 Five must-have Joomla plugins (and tips)http://chris.pirillo.com/five-must-have-joomla-plugins-and-tips/ http://chris.pirillo.com/five-must-have-joomla-plugins-and-tips/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:38:29 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/02/22/five-must-have-joomla-plugins-and-tips/ Five must-have Joomla plugins (and tips) is a post from Chris Pirillo

When I mentioned in my Picks that we deployed Joomla to drive this year’s Gnomedex site, a Gnomie responded enthusiastically. Jack Bremer operates a handful of Joomla-driven sites, including Prospect Burma and his own 3B Web Design. John and I have been hacking away at it for a while now, but he definitely knows more about the platform than I do – and John offered a handful of tips and suggestions, including his top five “must have” Joomla extensions. From the Bremer’s mouth:

  • Joomap (sitemap generator – great for your site AND automatic Google sitemap in the background)
  • JCE Editor (& file manager plugin & image manager plugin) – GREAT WYSIWYG editor, a million times better than the standard Joomla editor (I always unpublish the font and style plugins if other people will be managing the site so they cannot screw up the layout of the site!)
  • Google Analytics Plugin – obvious really!
  • CorrectPNG – IE6 PNG mambot/plugin which allows transparency (although not in png’s called in by CSS)
  • Google Maps Mambot (if appropriate) – fantastic map plugin which makes adding maps SUPER easy.

He added: “If OpenSEF is problematic, Artio JoomSEF is far easier to setup, I just like the control I have with OpenSEF. I recommend never using “static content” and instead publishing a “General content” or similar category in which you put general info – it’s far easier to manage through a single content manager than having some things in static etc.”

I wonder how else we could pimp my Joomla? Ewwwwwww…

]]> Five must-have Joomla plugins (and tips) is a post from Chris Pirillo

When I mentioned in my Picks that we deployed Joomla to drive this year’s Gnomedex site, a Gnomie responded enthusiastically. Jack Bremer operates a handful of Joomla-driven sites, including Prospect Burma and his own 3B Web Design. John and I have been hacking away at it for a while now, but he definitely knows more about the platform than I do – and John offered a handful of tips and suggestions, including his top five “must have” Joomla extensions. From the Bremer’s mouth:

  • Joomap (sitemap generator – great for your site AND automatic Google sitemap in the background)
  • JCE Editor (& file manager plugin & image manager plugin) – GREAT WYSIWYG editor, a million times better than the standard Joomla editor (I always unpublish the font and style plugins if other people will be managing the site so they cannot screw up the layout of the site!)
  • Google Analytics Plugin – obvious really!
  • CorrectPNG – IE6 PNG mambot/plugin which allows transparency (although not in png’s called in by CSS)
  • Google Maps Mambot (if appropriate) – fantastic map plugin which makes adding maps SUPER easy.

He added: “If OpenSEF is problematic, Artio JoomSEF is far easier to setup, I just like the control I have with OpenSEF. I recommend never using “static content” and instead publishing a “General content” or similar category in which you put general info – it’s far easier to manage through a single content manager than having some things in static etc.”

I wonder how else we could pimp my Joomla? Ewwwwwww…

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So, yeah… we’ve been fighting a few server burps over the past few days. I don’t even know where to begin – but I do know where we’re headed, and that’s up. Sean and Chris Brunner have reverse engineered an awful lot to get us to some level of stability, and there’s still much work yet to be done. I’m told that we need to locate a MySQL guru, too? We are adding a few more modifications to WPMU, but have stumbled into a better plan along the way – more on that soon. Essentially, I’m going to be starting my first Open Source project.

]]> Server Problems is a post from Chris Pirillo

So, yeah… we’ve been fighting a few server burps over the past few days. I don’t even know where to begin – but I do know where we’re headed, and that’s up. Sean and Chris Brunner have reverse engineered an awful lot to get us to some level of stability, and there’s still much work yet to be done. I’m told that we need to locate a MySQL guru, too? We are adding a few more modifications to WPMU, but have stumbled into a better plan along the way – more on that soon. Essentially, I’m going to be starting my first Open Source project.

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