Joomla! is, in many ways, a great CMS. One of its shortcomings, however, is that it has been slow to adopt web standards, which frequently manifests itself in annoying validation issues with generated XHTML and XML feeds. These issues are usually fairly easily overcome, but it would be nice if you didn’t have to worry [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Consequences of bot-mediated reality
September 17, 2008 – 12:36 pm
I have a lot of catch-up listening to do with regards to The Long Now Foundation’s excellent Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) lecture and podcast series. I’m a charter member of the Foundation, which gets you a sweet membership card and access to video of their lectures, among other less tangible things like knowing you’re [...]
Amazon Web Services Start-Up Tour in Toronto
September 16, 2008 – 6:48 pm
Attended this event at the MaRS Discovery centre, informative as always (I was at another AWS event last year that was smaller scale), which was hosted by Prashant Sridharan, Director, Amazon Web Services and Mike Culver, AWS Evangelist, with presentations from:
Carlos Barrettara, Co-Founder, Polar Mobile
Ilya Grigorik, Co-Founder, AideRSS
Chris Thiessen, Founder, Zoomii
Paul Bloore, CTO, Idee
Farhan Thawar, [...]
Maybe Naomi Wolfe is right…
September 13, 2008 – 9:52 am
I’ve always been very hesitant to use extreme terms like “police state,” or especially “fascist,” when describing political developments in countries like the USA and the UK that are slowly but steadily eroding citizen’s rights and encroaching on their privacy. But maybe Naomi Wolfe is on the right track after all, with her current ideas [...]
Reason 3 not to vote for the Conservatives: who cuts literacy funding?
September 12, 2008 – 4:00 am
We could be doing worse, but research does show that Canada has a literacy problem.
So, if that’s the case, why would the Conservatives cut $17.7 million CDN from adult and family literacy programs? This is old news, but it made no sense then, and it still doesn’t. Adult literacy has a very direct and measure [...]
Better pagination SEO with Wordpress
September 11, 2008 – 7:39 pm
Though SEO doesn’t get me all hot and bothered like it does some people, it is on my radar, as I think it should be for all web designers and developers.
One of the blogs I’ve recently subscribed to is SEOMoz, which I like both because it seems to be run by real professionals and thus [...]