May 2012
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WatchPresentation from the Joomladay Netherlands 2012 cornering ‘cloud’ and how Joomla fits in.
December 2011
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November 2011
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“Success of collaboration is having the right kind of people meet at the right...”
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Why Nooku
I have been asked this very question many times in the past three years. So far my answer always has been : “I am passionate about creating free software, building web architectures and collaborating with others”. While this is 100% true it’s not the complete answer.
Being removed
A little over three years ago my involvement in the Joomla project was abruptly ended. On the 20th of...
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WatchPresentation from JandBeyond 2011 in the Netherlands covering Nooku’s path from vision to architecture.
October 2011
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“Focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard...”
– Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998
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September 2011
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Jumla needs you to lead us
The first weekend of September I traveled to Florianopolis, Brazil to speak at the annual Joomladay Brazil. I was among 4 international guests who the Brazilian community had nominated as keynote speakers for this years event.
Joomla ‘for’ or ‘from’ the community
Talking to organizers and community members during and after the event I learned about their concerns,...
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“We innovators, are a tribe. We may not share all of the same capabilities,...”
– Jeffry Phillips - Innovate on purpose
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Joomla is 'the' Platform
In the past 6 years Joomla has seen an immense growth capturing almost 3% of the internet. Most still see Joomla as a CMS. Even Joomla.org states :
Joomla is the worlds most popular open source content management system. With 2.7 % of the internet running on Joomla the software is used by individuals, small-sized & medium size businesses and large organizations worldwide to easily...
August 2011
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“”Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers....”
– Steve Jobs narrates the first Think different commercial “Here’s to the Crazy Ones”. It never aired. Richard Dreyfuss did the voiceover for the original spot that aired. However Steve’s is much better. Here is the original.
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June 2011
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“Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Do so by removing any personal...”
– Was asked today to formulate a personal request for the upcoming Joomla Leadership Summit…
May 2011
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The Joomla Dilemma
The Joomla Project is our tree of life. We feed of it’s fruits. In order to allow it to produce and grow it requires our continuous nurturing. If not, Joomla will die.
In my keynote at the Joomladay Greece I addressed the dilemma between project and product, while Joomla as a product is growing and is used on 2.5% of all websites on the internet, Joomla is failing as an open source project.
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Understanding Open Source
Talking to people at open source events, and recently at JandBeyond, I’m always surprised how easily people use the excuse ‘I don’t have time to contribute’ to the open source projects they use personally or as part of their business.
Those same people are however quick to point out governance issues, code bugs and missing features. Some of them even dare to demand for...
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“It’s our community, our technology, our product or project - let’s...”
– Paul Delius - Spoons Knives and Forks.
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Betwixt and between
Betwixt and between, an intermediate position; neither wholly one thing nor another. Ever been in such a position before? Last week I felt very much betwixt and between. This post is my way to untangle and clarify.
Being awarded
Last Saturday, 7 May 2011 I was awarded with the Joomla Person of the Year J!OSCAR for outstanding personal achievements, my contributions to Joomla 1.5 and the...
“People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you build.”
April 2011
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There is no them nor we, there is only us
In recent discussions with people from the Joomla Project I have been made aware of a growing perception among the Joomla leadership that Nooku is not only a direct competitor with Joomla, but also that Nooku is trying to actively take developers away from Joomla.
Nooku is a project for developers, integrators and hackers alike. We aim to bring developers together. We prefer collaboration over...
February 2011
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“Leadership is about creating a way for people to collaborate to making something...”
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“Life will knock you down. You can choose whether to get back up. ”
– Jackie Chan in the The Karate Kid (2010)
November 2010
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Frameworks, Forks and Distros. Oh My!
I was...
October 2010
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Nooku is going GPLv3
Last July the question was raised in the Nooku Community about moving to the GPLV3 license. Today I am very pleased to announce (official announcement) that we are adopting the GPLv3, LGPLv3 and AGPLv3 licences for all future releases of Nooku. Versions previous to 0.7 remain under the GPLv2.
The move to GPLv3 is designed to suit the needs of Free Software in a developer market that is clearly...
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Fork or distro, a matter of intent
The announcement of Molajo spurred up the discussion in the Joomla community about the pros and cons of distributions and also raised the question if Molajo is a distribution or a fork. Let consider this question for a moment.
Defining the term
A fork is often defined as a competing project based on a version of the pre-existing project’s source code. Using this definition all FOSS projects can...
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Molajo, a Joomla 1.6 distribution
Yesterday, the ATAAW community announced Molajo, a Joomla 1.6 distribution. On the roadmap for Molajo are a number of new features that didn’t make it into Joomla 1.6 such as as usability improvements, new frontend and backend template and additional administrator tools.
More importantly with Joomla 1.6 still in beta, Molajo is also a great way to have more eyes on the code to help test...
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,...”
– Charlas Darwin (Source : en.wikiquote.org)
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Generation Y →
A great article about how Generation Y experience of growing up online will profoundly shape the workplace expectations of tomorrow. Being a ‘Millennial’ myself I recognize a lot of what the author is saying.
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Code Quality Measurement
If we measure bad code with WTF/m. Could we measure good code with Ahah’s/m ?
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“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Y4IT 2010 Experience: Boot-up. Connect. Converge. →
In September I had the pleasure of speaking at #Y4IT in Manila, Philippines. In my talk ‘Open Source Your Career’ I shared my personal experience of how open source has helped me to shape my career.
June 2010
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My talk from #jab10 about the future of Joomla! You forked already ?
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I was guest on yesterdays Joomstew podcast. We...
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May 2010
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“If your horse has bolted, you first catch the horse, THEN fix the fence.”
– Torkil Johnsen in reply to Graceful handling of failing Joomla plugins
April 2010
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I got interviewed by Bob Bloom recently about the...
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“Don’t talk about the code you are going to write, show me the code you...”
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Nooku Developer Portal →
The Nooku Developer portal just opened it doors. Go check it out ! You can read the official announcement here.