http://www.designvsdevelop.com the department of planned spontaneity Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:50:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lynda.com now has videos available on the most popular open-source programs for publishing content. There's the one on Joomla! I recorded, one on Wordpress by Maria Langer, and now one on Drupal by Tom Geller. So which one is right for your next site? Sign up for an Online Training ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/joomla-vs-drupal-vs-wordpress/ A beta for Podcast Suite 1.5 is now available. Read the details here. http://www.designvsdevelop.com/podcast-suite-15-beta-released/ Yesterday, I decided to install the blogging software Habari on my computer to see what the buzz was about. Overall, I'm impressed with the system and I think it shows a lot of promise for the future. It's all written in modern PHP 5 (5.2 is the minimum) with PDO ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/reviewing-habari/ If you're heading out to California for ZendCon in a few weeks, don't miss ZendUnCon. Keith Casey is heading up this unconference, which already has several interesting talks. I'm now kicking myself for not signing up for ZendCon :( http://www.designvsdevelop.com/are-you-going-to-zendcon-dont-miss-uncon/ Attention Podcast Suite lovers: Dan Li and I have been polishing the 1.5 version of the Podcast Suite. The UI is more or less complete and you can take a peek at the SVN copy. Are you interested in writing a user's guide or an FAQ? Contact me or leave a ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/calling-all-wordsmiths-who-love-podcast-suite/ A lot of people have been asking "when will there be a copy of Podcast Suite for Joomla! 1.5?" If you're one of those people, I have some good news for you: we're close to a beta! You can take a sneak peek at the code here. If you're handy ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/podcast-suite-for-joomla-15-coming-soon/ Recently, I recorded a Joomla! 1.5 video training series for Lynda.com. As of today, the videos are now live! This video series walks you through installing Joomla!, adding content, creating navigation, and adding extensions. You can sample some of the first videos on the site before subscribing to the Online ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/joomla-15-essential-training-now-live/ Earlier this week, we had the 2008 DC PHP Conference at George Washington University. A lot of new faces showed up this year and we had quite a few speakers from the local community. Here are some of the sessions I found particularly interesting: Automated Unit Testing. Mike Lively presented PHP ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/dc-php-08-highlights/ I think this time everyone brought down Twitter by talking about Amazon.com's downtime. http://www.designvsdevelop.com/is-this-too-mean/ You've probably received fraudulent emails from people posing to be a bank wanting you to log in to your account. A few weeks ago, I received a phone call from an automated machine claiming to be my bank with a message for me. It then asked for the last four ... http://www.designvsdevelop.com/phishing-alert-its-not-just-email/