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February 27, 2014
Great Wide Open in Atlanta
Here at OSTraining, our business is open source and our headquarters is in Atlanta, Georgia.
So, when we heard that a conference on the business of open source is headed to Atlanta, we wanted to know more.
Great Wide Open is a conference talking about open source inside large companies.
I spoke with Todd Lewis, one of the organizers of the Great Wide Open.
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So, when we heard that a conference on the business of open source is headed to Atlanta, we wanted to know more.
Great Wide Open is a conference talking about open source inside large companies.
I spoke with Todd Lewis, one of the organizers of the Great Wide Open.
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WordPress Deployment with Deploy, Git and Bitbucket
In recent years developers have used WordPress for more powerful and complex sites.
So, those developers have been required better tools such version control and the ability to manage multiple deployment environments for production, staging or testing.
In this tutorial we're going to show you one way to deploy WordPress sites professionally. We're going to use Bitbucket, Deploy and Git to manage a WordPress site.
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So, those developers have been required better tools such version control and the ability to manage multiple deployment environments for production, staging or testing.
In this tutorial we're going to show you one way to deploy WordPress sites professionally. We're going to use Bitbucket, Deploy and Git to manage a WordPress site.
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February 26, 2014
Voice Control for Websites With annyang!
It's increasingly common to control your devices using speech.
Google has speech recognition built into the Chrome browser. Apple and other Android manufacturers have voice control build into their cell phones.
Now thanks to annyang!, you can add voice control to your website. annyang! is a tiny javascript library that's really easy to add to your site.
In this tutorial you will learn how to use this library doing a quick example.
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Google has speech recognition built into the Chrome browser. Apple and other Android manufacturers have voice control build into their cell phones.
Now thanks to annyang!, you can add voice control to your website. annyang! is a tiny javascript library that's really easy to add to your site.
In this tutorial you will learn how to use this library doing a quick example.
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Understanding The New Drupal Release Cycle
At the end of 2013, big changes were made to the Drupal release cycle.
You can read full details of the changes at https://drupal.org/node/2135189.
The changes will start with Drupal 8, but are going to impact almost all current and future versions.
In this blog post, I'll give you a short, plain-English overview of the changes.
I'll show how the changes will impact users of Drupal 6, 7, 8 and 9.
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You can read full details of the changes at https://drupal.org/node/2135189.
The changes will start with Drupal 8, but are going to impact almost all current and future versions.
In this blog post, I'll give you a short, plain-English overview of the changes.
I'll show how the changes will impact users of Drupal 6, 7, 8 and 9.
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February 25, 2014
WooCommerce Video Training and Webinar
Our new class and webinar schedule is up-and-running.
Every Monday, we release a new video class. Every Friday, we hold a webinar for our members on that same topic.
This week's topic is WooCommerce, which is one of the best choices for e-commerce on WordPress. Created by the team behind WooThemes, it transforms your WordPress website into an excellent online store.
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Every Monday, we release a new video class. Every Friday, we hold a webinar for our members on that same topic.
This week's topic is WooCommerce, which is one of the best choices for e-commerce on WordPress. Created by the team behind WooThemes, it transforms your WordPress website into an excellent online store.
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February 24, 2014
Watch the WordPress Gravity Forms Webinar
Our new class and webinar schedule is up-and-running.
Every Monday, we release a new video class. Every Friday, we hold a webinar for our members on that same topic.
Last week's topic was Gravity Forms, the premium form builder for WordPress. Gravity Forms is extremely flexible and can create any kind of form you want to build on your WordPress site.
We recorded the webinar, and you can now watch a replay of it.
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Every Monday, we release a new video class. Every Friday, we hold a webinar for our members on that same topic.
Last week's topic was Gravity Forms, the premium form builder for WordPress. Gravity Forms is extremely flexible and can create any kind of form you want to build on your WordPress site.
We recorded the webinar, and you can now watch a replay of it.
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February 23, 2014
Our OSTraining Classroom-in-a-bag
A few weeks ago I wrote about all the technology changes we were making in our live training.
With a fairly minimal investment, we/ve put together a bag of technology that allows us to go into any room with electrical power and do training.
In this blog post I'm going to show you everything that goes in our "classroom-in-a-bag".
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With a fairly minimal investment, we/ve put together a bag of technology that allows us to go into any room with electrical power and do training.
In this blog post I'm going to show you everything that goes in our "classroom-in-a-bag".
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Customizing Kunena BBCode buttons
Joomla!'s template override mechanism offers wonderful flexibility with relative ease. If you've ever done this, you know it's a simple matter of copying a core file into the right directory under your template's html directory.
Kunena is no exception although with a slight twist. For example, if you want to do your own thing for the reply/edit page, you would copy the file
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Kunena is no exception although with a slight twist. For example, if you want to do your own thing for the reply/edit page, you would copy the file
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February 20, 2014
Joomla: Session is marked as crashed and should be repaired
The image below shows an error message that sometimes occurs on Joomla sites:
The message is actually fairly clear once you know what to look for.
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The message is actually fairly clear once you know what to look for.
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The Basics of a Ghost Theme
We've talked about Ghost several times on this blog.
Most notably, we reviewed Ghost on it's release in October last year and then we said that Ghost had the best chance of success amongst many new flat-file website builders. We also covered the release of version 0.4 in January.
What started as a Kickstarter Campaign last year now has over 100,000 downloads. Far from being a complete blogging software as showcased on Kickstarter, its progress nonetheless has been steady, with each version getting new features and performance optimization.
In this tutorial, I'll give you an introduction to Ghost themes.
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Most notably, we reviewed Ghost on it's release in October last year and then we said that Ghost had the best chance of success amongst many new flat-file website builders. We also covered the release of version 0.4 in January.
What started as a Kickstarter Campaign last year now has over 100,000 downloads. Far from being a complete blogging software as showcased on Kickstarter, its progress nonetheless has been steady, with each version getting new features and performance optimization.
In this tutorial, I'll give you an introduction to Ghost themes.
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