Blog entries tagged joomla user groups http://www.jenkramer.org Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:14:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.jenkramer.org/blog/happy-5th-birthday-joomla-.html <p>Dear Joomla,</p><br/><p>We&rsquo;re all so proud of you and how far you&rsquo;ve come these five years. Your 20 parents conceived of you because they wanted to have fun. Ever since, people have come to you looking for a good time, to make friends all over the world, to contribute to the greater good.</p><br/><p>In dog years, or technology years, you&rsquo;re actually 35. This is actually a better age to describe you. You&rsquo;re old enough to have been around the block, and old enough to know better... Jen Kramer Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:04:05 +0100 web standards usability templates social networking joomla user groups joomla community joomla 1.6 joomla 1.5 http://www.jenkramer.org/blog/do-the-people-who-like-it-take-care-of-each-other.html <p>On my flight home from California, I finished up Clay Shirkey's excellent book, "Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations<img class=" ykzqhgjvqrzpavwzhqti ykzqhgjvqrzpavwzhqti ykzqhgjvqrzpavwzhqti ykzqhgjvqrzpavwzhqti ykzqhgjvqrzpavwzhqti ykzqhgjvqrzpavwzhqti ykzqhgjvqrzpavwzhqti ykzqhgjvqrzpavwzhqti zjanocxrsngnfmlecjtn zjanocxrsngnfmlecjtn" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=focusedconsultin&amp;l=as2&amp... Jen Kramer Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:30:32 +0100 open source joomla user groups joomla community http://www.jenkramer.org/blog/thank-you-to-everyone-for-making-joomla-day-new-england-a-success.html <p>Joomla User Group New England is the nicest bunch of Joomies you'd ever hope to meet. And I'm the luckiest Joomie of them all, because I get to live here and work with them!</p><br/><p>Thank you to all of our attendees. Some of you got up at 5 AM to drive from Boston to the middle of nowhere to sit in a hellishly hot auditorium all day, but left smiling, recharged, and happy.</p><br/><p>Thank you, as always, to Marlboro College and Marlboro College Graduate School, for the free space, the support wit... Jen Kramer Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:46:25 +0100 joomla user groups joomla conference http://www.jenkramer.org/blog/OK-its-a-vanity-post....html <p>... but I am all excited about this past week on Joomla.org. <img src="/plugins/editors/jce/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-laughing.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" title="Laughing" /></p> <p>First, Amy Stephen wrote a very nice article about me, in response to my post about those who can't do, teach. I was really surprised but am really grateful to Amy for the nice article.</p> <p>Then, Neri Valentin-Macias wrote a terrific article about the Lynda.com movies that Joe LeBlanc and I create... Jen Kramer Sat, 16 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100 joomla user groups joomla 1.5 4web news http://www.jenkramer.org/blog/Those-who-cant-do-teach.-Really-.html <p>Recently, a student of mine showed me a Twitter exchange between two prominent Joomla developers about this very phrase. The argument made was if you're good enough to actually do, you wouldn't have time to be teaching. The implied conclusion to that is if you're teaching, you clearly aren't a first rate designer/developer, and you have to teach to pay the bills.</p> <p>We could carry this argument to this: if you are a first-rate designer/developer, you wouldn't have time to volunteer your s... Jen Kramer Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100 web business joomla vs drupal joomla user groups joomla conference joomla 1.5 http://www.jenkramer.org/blog/Lynda.com-Joomla-basics-videos-in-planning-.html <p>Lynda Weinman and I are scheduled to chat next week about some new movies for Lynda.com.&nbsp; She has a great description on her new blog of what we're discussing.&nbsp; It's the same thing I've been discussing with many of you.&nbsp; When I created the Joomla templates movies, my assumption was that people knew how to make a static HTML web page with an external stylesheet.&nbsp; Since then, I've heard from some of you at the user groups, and others at conferences and online, that this wasn... Jen Kramer Wed, 06 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100 joomla user groups joomla 1.5 frontend interface design 4web news