Brian Teeman

Motivation is something personal to all of us and we all clearly have different things that get us all fired up and committed.  

I first saw this stunningly animated lecture a year or so ago and I was reminded of it when Ryan Ozimek quoted it in his presentation at Joomla!Dagen in the Netherlands last week. {...}

This time last year I said I was speechless when I discovered that I had been nominated for an award for the the Open Source in Business blogger of the year in the prestigious UK publication ComputerWeekly.

And only a few weeks later I was shocked and suprised when I actualy won the award.

Thought I would spend a little time today looking back at some of my previous blog posts and post a few updates.

In this fast moving and ever changing world it doesn't take long for "breaking news" to become "old news".

... and Wordpress is better than both.

Back in January of this year I made the first call for votes in the annual Linux Journal magazine Readers' Choice Awards.

The results are now in and in what looks like a pretty close race Joomla came second.

I had to smile today, and boy do I need something to smile about right now.

Linux.com, which is perhaps one of the biggest sites on the net, re-launched their site under new ownership and now powered by joomla.

All those years ago when we founded joomla I don't think we coud have thought of a web site that we woud have liked to see run joomla more than this one.

Of course I just had to dig a little further to have a look and see what extensions they are using.

Detractors of Free & Open Source (FLOSS) software often accuse it of being the home of the politicaly left wing.

That is certainly not something that could be send of The Adam Smith Institute.

The Adam Smith Institute was long a favorite of Maggie Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Party, "as the founder of free market economics".

It is time to say thank you to the uncredited photographers who provided all the images included in joomla (and mambo before that).

I've been thinking for a while that I really should say thank you to these photographers who never recieved any credit for their work.

On Sunday Jan 25 at 02:22:29 Rob Schley ended an era and removed the images from images/stories for Joomla 1.6 and Steve Burge listed these images in his Top ten things to explain to joomla learners.

The web site may be nearly 2 years old now but Charles Darwin would be 200 today.

I am confident that he would be amazed at the evolution of technology since his birth that has led to his entire collection of correspondence becoming accessible to everyone on his very own joomla website.

The Darwin Correspondence Project was founded in 1974 by an American scholar, Frederick Burkhardt, with the aid of Sydney Smith, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge, UK.

No I haven't gone mad and got my calendar wrong I really am talking about Easter Eggs. But not the nice chocolate type we get here in the UK or the painted bird eggs more common in the USA.

Instead I'm talking about the hidden, often undocumented, commands buried inside software, dvd and even web sites.

Usually they are just an exercise in a talented programmer having a joke at their boss, but sometimes they can provide extra and useful functions.

And sometimes they strip a joomla designer naked!!

Every year Linux Journal magazine conducts its Readers' Choice Awards which is an open poll to "take the current pulse of the Linux Community".

Vote for the software you use every day in your work and play and deserve to be acknowledged with this prestigious honour.

The polls are open until February 14th and give joomla a Valentine's Day present.

Please respect the magazine and only vote once.