I've been involved with voluntary organisations for over 25 years, either as a volunteer, employee or organiser.
Every organisation has suffered from the same problems: lack of volunteers, volunteer burn-out, missing skills and cliques.
The problem usually arises when a new task/team/role is created and the default option is to look at the existing pool of volunteers and asking some of them to take on the task. Without consideration of them having the required skills, or importantly available time, just that they are already "known people".
Read more: The Joomla Oompa Loompa
It's a busy time in the Joomla! event calendar right now and I'm busy preparing to make two presentations at Joomla!Days in The Netherlands and if accepted another presentation at J & Beyond.
I probably made a rod for my own back with last years Hidden Secrets presentation as I have a lot to live up to this year.
I considered making a "Hidden Secrets Part 2" but in the end settled on "What's in a name".
Hopefully I'll be able to explain where the name Joomla! comes from, what it could have been instead, why we have the ! at the end and some lessons learnt that might help you choosing a name for your company, product or child.
Read more: Joomla 1.6 Templates
There has been some discussion and comment on the development list recently about the design of sample templates for the upcoming Joomla 1.6 release.
Have you considered what they should look like, their functionality and most importantly their purpose?
Are they intended to be used on production sites or are they a showcase of the potential for Joomla templates?
Read more: Who is the Joker in the Joomla pack?
The second most common odd question I get asked is "Why is the default userid 62?"
Andrew attempted to give the most complete answer but the truth is the answer is lost in the dim and distant past.
There is nothing you can do about it.
On every install a superadmin user is created with username "admin" and userid "62".
I have blogged before why it's so important for your web site security to remove these known values.
Read more: Google Meta Description Tags
If you've ever received an email from me, chatted with me on skype or followed me on twitter you will know that the end of my arms I have two handy typo generators.
Today I finally found the time to upgrade my blog to the latest version of Joomla.
(No I won't tell you what version it was running but let's just say I really should have done it a very very long time ago. Funny how our own sites are often the last to get upgraded)
Who do you trust with your email?
Cross browser web site testing
