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What You See Is Not What You Get

Written by Arno Zijlstra Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:42

People who know me a little also know I'm not to fond of What You See Is What You Get editors and this isn't without a good reason.

I love building sites that are lean and clean, accessible and SEO Optimized with as little mark-up as possible to get the job done and I try to shoot for XHMTL Strict Valid and semantic output. For this reason it is also important to use clean markup in the articles that are added to the site. There is nothing more frustrating than having build a great site that is later destroyed because the sites content isn't written to be very clean as well.

I've done some tests with my own What You Want Is What You Get editor if you like and the Joomla! default WYSIWYG editor called Tiny to show you what happens or at least what can happen.

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W3C webstandards event in Gijon

Written by Wilco Jansen Wednesday, 29 October 2008 23:56

Past weekend I was staying in Gijón (Spain) to represent the Joomla! project at the W3C's Web Fundamentals conference. Along with Dries Buytaert (Drupal) and Alejandro Alves (OpenCMS) we had a Panel session of two hours entitled CMS, Standards, Accessibility, and other Tales. The Panel session was moderated by Charles McCathieNevile from Opera.

The photo below, taken by Dries, was the view we got from our hotel...not a bad location to be for an event ;-)

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Open Source in an Economic Crisis

Written by Ian Maclennan Wednesday, 29 October 2008 17:06

With the current economic crisis first and foremost on everybody's mind, I read with interest Arno's recent blog. If free (both as in freedom and as in beer) is a major benefit of open source software, then what does the current situation mean for open source?

This is certainly an interesting topic, but one that I think only time will tell. What I find particularly interesting is that there were two articles on Slashdot related to this topic, both posted within the span of one day. The first article cites the Red Hat CEO, who says that the economic crisis favours open source. The second article cites Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, who claims that the economic crisis will eliminate open source.

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A positive chart for a change, Open Source rules

Written by Arno Zijlstra Tuesday, 28 October 2008 16:31

By now everyone is probably sick of this global financial crisis that is going on and that is for a large part caused by people that are takers instead of givers like we Open Source people are. Seeing all those downward charts I thought I'd post one that goes the other direction.

I've added three much used Open Source Projects to google trends and as you can see they are all going strong, Open Source rules :-)

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Measuring contribution to an open source project

Written by Arno Zijlstra Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:51

Packt Publishing has announced a list of Most Valued People from Open Source Content Management System Projects.

With this list they are aiming to give people that contribute to Open Source Projects the credits they deserve instead of these people going unnoticed.

While I think it is a great thing to give people credits when they deserve it I noticed something that made me think.

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Wrapping up a Summer of Code

Written by Ian Maclennan Wednesday, 22 October 2008 05:17

As the wind and the cold arrived today it was a harsh reminder that summer is definitively over. The frost on the windshield and the goosebumps forming on my arms are clear signs that the time for shorts is no more. Along with the end of summer comes the end of the summer of code. Although the firm pencils down date is long past and evaluations have finished long ago, the mentor summit is coming up and I am excited about the opportunity to meet with and share with fellow open source addicts. Meeting in person with others from various communities makes everything seem more real!

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