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Sunday, 06 June 2010 12:39 |
Well... a good friend of mine emailed me asking some questions about the challenges of migrating to Open Source software in a small to mid-sized business. (That's SMB's to you buzzword people.) I've spent the past 8 years leading my company along that bumpy road. Many things have changed and the environment has opened up as well. This is no longer the alien idea it once was. The barriers have been greatly reduced but the learning curve still seems high for many. I hope to help that. If I supply people with the knowledge I have acquired during this adventure, maybe I can nudge some people enough to get them moving in a better direction. Let's hope. |
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Hiway, What's with the ads? |
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Friday, 26 June 2009 11:23 |
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My old trusty server gave up the ghost. After years of great performance and several OS changes, Max died.  I had some great people supplying me with bandwidth and support as well. But the time has come to move on. I've decided to move to a hosted site, 100webspace.net. I am currently trying out their great FREE hosting (hence the ads) but will soon move to paid hosting. If you're looking for some decent hosting, click the menu item at the top of the screen. They got a ton of preinstalled scripts, and the paid hosting is pennies compared to everyone else. Right now I'm just busy trying to learn how to use Joomla. (It's not as easy as it looks.) |
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Thursday, 12 October 2006 05:00 |
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After some fits and starts, HiwayPilot has found his new home. Welcome to the 'Grand Experiment'. It's taken me some time to get my head around this radically different management tool. Years ago, when I started out, (walking to school... 20 miles, in the snow... uphill both ways...) I coded web pages in a text editor. Eventually I incorporated tools like Netscape Composer and NVU to speed things up a bit. But with a lot of my pages containing both Javascript and PHP, I still coded most sites by hand. Eventually I migrated the HiwayPilot site to a WordPress blog. Mostly this was simply a time saving step. I didn't want to compose a new page for every post. When I started building my own content management engine, I realized that was sort of reinventing the wheel. The tools exist, use them. So I did. Joomla! is extremely tweakable. It's also a bit "hands on" as far as content placement. But the customization runs circles around WordPress. (No offense WordPress guys. I still think WordPress is the most approachable blogging, site management tool out there.) I should probably have read more and practiced a bit before switching, but hey, what fun would that be? So please excuse the mess. (And it will get messy before it gets better.) I will try to learn how to tame this beast as quickly as possible and hopefully create some useful tutorials along the way.
 Joomla! provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface that simplifies the management and publishing of large volumes of content including HTML, documents, and rich media. Joomla! is used by organisations of all sizes for Public Web sites, Intranets, and Extranets and is supported by a community of thousands of users. And I kinda like it. (now) |
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