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My Low-tech To-Do List

Everyone who works, wants to be as productive as possible, and I’m sure everyone’s got his tools to make sure that’s the case. At work, we’re using a combination of ApolloHQ for project Management, a Joomla 3.2 site with Akeeba Tickets for support, Office 365 for collaboration and OpenERP for… well, all other things. Each […]

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J & More Runs On WordPress and it’s partially your fault.

“Nice blog you’ve got there. But, ehm… I couldn’t help but notice you are using WordPress. To blog about Joomla. That’s funny, haha. What’s that all about?” Occasionaly, someone who reads a post (and hopefully more than one) discovers that Joomla & More – a blog dedicated to the CMS Joomla – runs on WordPress. 

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Joomla! Next: Dead to the CMS. Hail the Application Platform

This is and old(er) post I managed to save from my old blog, which I deleted. Accidentaly. Which makes an excellent case for back-ups. In the past few weeks, there has been a rather big amount of discussion about “Joomla’s Future.” Or, to be precise, there were a lot of arguments without anyone knowing what

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Joomla 4 – Breaking (Versioning) Bad

Synopsis Joomla adopted an “unique” scheduling system some time ago. Try explaining a client that it’s better to be on 2.5 than on 3.0 whereas everyone else says “Use the latest and greatest.” Try explaining them that there’s no 3.3 and 3.4 because of… well… reasons. With the arrival of 4.0 we can fix the

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Rant: Euroscoop’s inability to update their site makes Thor sad.

Today, I was heading to the cinema with my brother (in crime) @kenobixios. We were planning to go and see Thor 2.  What we didn’t expect was Day 2 of Massive Fail at Euroscoop, the cinema complex we regularly attend. As we arrive to try and buy our tickets we can’t find the movie in

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How I built a team of 100 Translators

One or two weeks ago, the Dutch team of OpenTranslators  – which I’m proud to coordinate – passed a “big” milestone, when the 100Th translator was approved. That’s one hundred people, translating extensions into Dutch. The results speak for themselves: the Dutch team is the most productive OpenTranslators team – outperforming some bigger teams like

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