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No more MooTools in Joomla? 12 Jun 2012 | 05:47 am
So, I was doing some research into Joomla 3.0 due to be released in the next few months and I came across something that really upset me. The Joomla 3.0 jQuery Integration Plan Somehow, those respon...
It was a bad day 6 May 2012 | 03:40 pm
Friday was tough. My 19 year old cat Polly was at the end of her run. My friends and I rescued her litter after their mother disappeared. I spent weeks bottle feeding kittens every day until the d...
RicheyWeb Joomla 1.5 extensions are no longer available 27 Apr 2012 | 03:22 pm
Joomla 1.5 reached end-of-life in April of 2012. The Joomla core developers will continue to provide security updates for several months, but the version is no longer supported. You can learn more b...
I Snoozed... and Lost 5 Apr 2012 | 05:21 am
Looking through the Joomla New Extensions feed last night, I saw a new extension named Profiler. Can you believe it? - Profiler - the name I'd given one of my apps which is still in development. Of ...
Is Slashdot censoring posts? 16 Feb 2012 | 12:10 pm
This has happened to me only twice, but it concerns me nonetheless. Both times, I have decided to post as AC (Anonymous Coward) because of the controvercial nature of my comments. Both times, I chal...
What's good for the soul... 17 Jun 2011 | 02:24 am
... isn't necessarily good for the wallet. At the end of April, I was laid off from the Dallas Independent School District. I wasn't alone, 449 other people were laid off, including my entire depart...
Immitation is the best form... 23 Mar 2011 | 11:12 am
That's what they say, but it still bothers me a bit. I've been writing free extensions for Joomla for a while now. There is one criteria that must be met before I'll write a Joomla extension: No fr...
It's not me! 26 Feb 2011 | 02:57 pm
It has come to my attention that several sites I built while working for ECTISP have been taken down. Let it be known that I have not been an employee of theirs since February of 2010 and I no longer...
Life lessons learned while working in tech 22 Jul 2010 | 08:42 am
I submitted a couple of tech-support stories to Infoworld for their "Off the Record" blog and they published them. I would've given them the stories for free, but they insisted on paying me. Cool hu...