created on 周二, 2008-06-24 11:07

You probably saw all of these articles already but ... in case you missed any ... get comfy, pour a beverage and do some reading about Open Source CMSs in the news:

Drupal and The Future of News

Tech writer Kurt Cagle from Open Source Pixels {cribbed article bio: managing editor of XML.com, lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is beginning to wonder what happened to summer - Ed note: Ditto on the summer ;-)} offers a wide-ranging narrative about his experiences with Drupal, (including a name-check of Bryght/Raincity Studios) in his June 1, 2008 article. Well worth a read for his interesting historical and technical perspectives.

created on 周四, 2008-06-12 14:25

TinyMCE is ugly!

I worked on a better User Interface for TinyMCE, inspired by the new Wordpress interface. The intention is to make TinyMCE easier to use and read for bloggers, editors. TinyMCE is ugly, but thank god, it left some options to design it so we could have something like this :

created on 周二, 2008-02-19 10:45

With Vancouver personal expression conference Northern Voice approaching, Dave O, Roland Tanglao and Richard Eriksson preview the Internet Boot Camp track at Moose Camp (Friday Feb 22, 2008).

This year at Moose Camp, Richard will present Blogging 101 and Roland (along with Jordan Behan and Warren Frey) will present Video Blogging 101 to go along with the ad hoc track. On Saturday's Northern Voice, Dave will lay out his pitch to encourage the assembled folks to seize the opportunity to make creative endeavours with integrity and not get hung on stats and fleeting noteriety. Then, plates of steaming tasty Cantonese food arrives to the table at The Boss cafe in Vancouver's Chinatown.

created on 周三, 2007-06-27 20:51

The four Vancouver PHP workshops on PHP, MySQL, Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, etc (#1 (tomorrow June 28), #2, #3 and #4) are from 6:30p.m. to 8p.m at Free Geek. This is a change from previous times posted! Have fun and can't wait to see what people develop based on the skills they learn at these great free workshops organized by PHP maven Audrey Foo.

created on 周五, 2006-07-21 14:10 The lovely Matt Mullenweg, brilliant founding developer of Wordpress and Akismet led a session on getting those first 100,000 users.

A Few Tidbits:
• Wordpress.org gets 3 to 5 thousand hits a day.
• Wordpress.com is at 260,000 blogs
• Akismet has over 1 million spam blocks per day.
• Matt's only been programming for 3 years!?!

Mullenweg's 12 Rules:
1. You have to be the most passionate person involved.
2. Get off the computer - the act of writing things down on paper frees the mind, allows for the juices to really flow.
3. Obsess about the details, down to the space between two letters.
4. Do your own support. You have to be able to feel the pain of your users. Document everything. Make it as easy as possible for your users to contact you.
5. Blog every step of the way. Keep all of your users in the loop at all times - they will love you. Communicate with them and put them in the driver's seat.
6. Have a great tagline. If you can't describe what you are doing in less than 5 words, edit it, shave it down.
7. Frame everything you're talking about in a context for your users. What are you going to do for them?
8. Get out of version 1.0 as fast as possible. Most people make their successes on something different from where they started. Be flexible. User feedback is the most valuable asset. Don't let yourself be too led by your first users. Listen to the silent majority. Keep the majority in mind.
9. Track yourself.
10. Know what to do if you are successful.
11. Start strong, end strong. People don't often remember what was in the middle.
12. Be a pain killer, not a vitamin.


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