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".
Even though I am known to many as Mr Gadget man I don't own an iphone. I've just never seen the point!
My windows based mobile has done everything I wanted it to do, and I already own an mp3 player and digital camera.
But today perhaps this has all changed. As someone who is regularly out on the road I rely on my portable joomla training suite to keep me intouch with the world and more importantly in control of my clients web sites.
Now Joomla! administration has finally found its way to the iPhone with J Admin Mobile (JAM!)(iTunes link). JAM! will allow you to manage many of the core Joomla! 1.5 features right from your iPhone!
Last week I blogged about creating a large form with complex validation rules using bfForms.
But what do you do if you want to add an existing html form to your joomla site?
Perhaps you have a form created in dreamweaver, or you have purchased a form from an on-line library, or even have a form created in microsoft word that you want to add to your site.
I spend a lot of my time training people new to joomla so I think, and hope, that I have a pretty good idea of the trials and tribulations that they face.
Looking at joomla for the first time can be, for some, a daunting prospect. With so many options and so much power and flexibility it is easy to be overwhelmed and quickly drop joomla in the trash.
Fear not, joomla help is easy to find.
Yesterday I had to build a form for a new web site. But this wasn't the usual form with a handful of fields and a couple of required elements.
Oh no! This client required a form with almost 200 fields (194 to be exact), each field required validation, and there shouldn't be a single table element anywhere in the form.
Gregory House the grumpy doctor of TV fame specialises in solving the problems that no other doctor can.
Famously he says "All patients lie!".
Of course what he really means is that you shouldn't believe everything the patient says about their illness and symptoms as they do not have the skills to accurately describe them.
Patients also have a tendency to neglect to inform you of facts which seem irrelevant to them but are crucial to a successful diagnosis.
The same is true for supporting users!
Don't believe what you can't see with your own eyes!
I've hinted about this new uberextension before but now its here and available for download.
“climb every (Joomla!) mountain with K2”
In a recent blog post I talked about an extension under development that has really got me excited. And it takes quite a lot to get me excited these days!
Tonight I got a quick skype message from the author that the release is only hours away.
Patience may be a virtue but I've been waiting for this for a very long time now and the anticipation is really getting to me.
Every day I try to learn something new and today is no different.
Hopefully you are aware of the robots.txt file that comes with your joomla web site install and you might even have customised it to add more power and control.
The robots.txt file acts as a signpost to google and other search engine robots, telling which parts of your web site to index and which to ignore.
In advanced usage it can be used to serve slightly different content to the search engines, prevent images from being included in the google image index or even tell google the pages of your site to include in its mobile index.
But have you checked it is actually working?
