http://www.designvsdevelop.com the department of planned spontaneity Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:00:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I released a stable copy of Podcast Suite 1.5 today, go get it. On the forums, we managed to find bugs regarding the MIME type being set in the HTTP headers. We also fixed a bug where languages other than English would not get their code in the RSS feed. ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/podcast-suite-1-5-stable-released/ It seems as though the tech conference season starts off every year with SXSW in Austin, comes to a peak in May, then takes a vacation until September. So far, this year has been no different. I recently had the opportunity to attend three conferences within four weeks of each ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/spring-09-conference-roundup/ I downloaded the concrete5 CMS a couple of weeks ago and intended to write a critique earlier, but am only now getting around to doing so. Since then, this article was released on CMS Wire and Joomla! fans on Twitter began talking. What's good One common pitfall of CMSes is to abstract ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/concrete5-first-impressions/ Podcast Suite 1.5 RC1 is now available for download here. A lot of validation issues are fixed, multiple feeds should be working, and a German translation of the UI is bundled. Thanks goes out to everyone using it and waiting for help on the forum! You've helped me catch a ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/podcast-suite-15-release-candidate-1/ This coming Friday at 1PM Eastern US time, I'll be giving a talk about Avoiding Joomla! Pain. Recently, I've been running into PHP programmers tasked with maintaining Joomla! sites they didn't set up. Some dig in and get busy, while others become frustrated when things don't work the way they ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/avoiding-joomla-pain-march-13th/ Keith Casey tagged me about a month ago and I decided to go for it. However, I went a little overboard with the editing, thinking, and pulling out all sorts of tangents, so it took me a while. Anyway, here are seven things you might not know about me: I've worn a ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/seven-things-tagged-by-keith-casey/ Last Friday, Lynda.com released another volume of Joomla! videos created by Jen Kramer McKibben. Now, in addition to watching videos about all of the major content management systems, you can also learn how to create Joomla! templates and CSS with Jen. Head on over to Lynda.com now and preview some ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/new-lyndacom-joomla-videos/ Right around Thanksgiving, my mother will usually email asking for a list of Christmas gifts. This previously presented a messy problem: we would have to sit down, come up with a list, send it to Mom, then she would have to circulate the list and coordinate who was buying what. ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/quick-and-dirty-christmas-list-a-joomla-recipe/ Framework conflicts are a common problem people run into when using jQuery. While jQuery provides some tricks you can use to get around this, you may still run into issues when Joomla! generates MooTools effects. While writing the second edition of Learning Joomla! Extension Development, I decided to do a ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/using-mootools-and-jquery-together-in-joomla/ I've been an avid Textmate user for a while now. It's a text editor for Mac OS X that allows you to automate a lot of common text tasks. The editor has the concept of bundles, where you can group similar code snippets and macros together; selectively using each depending ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/textmate-bundle-for-joomla/