Professionalism & Volunteers, not mutually exclusive.
“But they are volunteers.” This sentence is often used, often to excuse the actions (or lack of actions) of someone volunteering for something. I will admit that you can’t keep volunteers to the same standards as a paid employee of an organization or a company. Everyone (hopefully) understands that there is a limit to how
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Embracing the Linux Command Line
For a very long time, I avoided the command line of Linux like a plague. Sure, I’d mess around with Ubuntu occasionaly. But only in desktop mode. SSH access? I’ll just stick to FTP instead, that’s far less complex! Until last year I told myself using the command line was “too hard” and “not worth
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Put your “opinion” where you own it.
Today, a collegue of mine told me how a ‘rant’ about a big IT company he made on Linkedin, mysteriously vanished after he refused to take the post down. This after company first called him (!) and ordered him to take it down. Yay for free speech!! Of course I could blog about how disturbing
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Closing Toralkodocs.net
More than a year ago, I launched Toralkodocs.net, a website for “commercial” Joomla documentation. After some deliberating I’ve decided to pull the plug on Toralkodocs when the hosting is due for renewal, in June. The goal of Toralkodocs.net was to build a Joomla documentation site, which would be updates frequently. But due to a lack
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Investing time and money to save on both
My company is currently making some changes to the way we work. You can always make improvements somewhere. For us, one of the area where we wanted to make changes was the automating of our hosting & domains billing / administration. Company-wide we’re using OpenERP which is a good product, but for our Hosting &
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Our first Yubikey client – shortest support call ever.
Today, I had a client call me about how his Yubikey worked on his Joomla site. What followed, was one of the shortest support calls I’ve ever made. Push the button on the Yubikey. Easier than Simsalabim. Our conversation went like this: Me: “Is your key plugged in?” Him: “Yeah, but how does it work?”
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Random (and likely incoherent) thoughts on the LGPL debate
At this very moment, people are arguing on the Joomla Forum whether Joomla’s Framework should change their license to LGPL or not. The page has reached 17 pages now. Wow. Many posts. Much word. Very debate. Amaze. Usually, threads on the forum die a quick and painless death, so you know there’s a fierce debate
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February 20, 2014 – No Title
You’ll have to forgive me for the total lack of a title… At the moment, I’m creating a virtual machine using Windows XP, in Hyper-V on Windows 2008. It brings back memories to when my job was 70% about networks, 20% building websites in Joomla and 10% maintaining clients’ networks. I enjoyed the network part
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Dipping our toes in the WordPress water
Do you remember how I blogged earlier this year, about how “our”company wanted to explore horizons? You skipped it because it didn’t start with “How to?” Thanks… Well, either way, one of our ships has set sail to the WordPress islands. This week our scouting party has landed there, and we are doing some exploring.
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