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Joomla Thoughts
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Someone asked recently what I think about Joomla. It’s a great framework and platform to build websites on top of. It’s still largely unfriendly, though. I know there are tons of modules, but it’s just so user UNfriendly. Some people would [...]
Open Source vs Closed Source
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Justin called from southern California recently to talk about open source projects. He’s doing some research into this for school, and had a few questions. Justin asked my opinion as to the pros and cons of both open source and closed [...]
How to Build Your Community Using Open Atrium
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Gregory Heller was an attendee at Gnomedex this past summer. During our open mic session, he talked to us about the Open Atrium service, which is a free (and apparently better!) alternative to Drupal. It comes with six features – a [...]
Google Docs has a Community?!?!
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you got an email from someone alledging to be on the “Google Docs Team”… would you believe it? I didn’t, because they were asking if I would like to post to the Google Docs blog to help other users. True [...]
The Open Source Community Project Named Gnomepal
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 [...]
We’re Taking an Open Direction with Web Communities: Are You In?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed For the community of community owners, operators, moderators, and members: we need better options, and I believe we need them to exist on open platforms. We all have different tastes and we all use different tools, but I think we all [...]
What Advice do you Give to Young Programmers?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Programming is an excellent field to go into, and good Programmers are a hot commodity. That reminds me… if anyone out there is above excellent at working with Drupal, shoot me an email to chris@pirillo.com. Thanks to Grant for sending in [...]
Drupal vs. WordPress
Click Image to Play Video http://live.pirillo.com/ – Everyone has a blog, but Perseco asks which platform is better: Drupal or WordPress? Some people think WordPress is good enough, while other people swear by Drupal. If you want one blog with one user, WordPress is good enough, but if you want to run multiple blogs with [...]
