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 <title>Movabletype is not Serious About Open Source</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Movabletype released an open source version of Movabletype 4.1 Yea!. But they suck at creating and supporting a community. Boo!. Nearly a half year ago they opened Movabletype.org again. Since then the only thing you can get there is confused. 
First they have the beta version of the CMS under the download button on the first page. Not the MTOS (open source) version but the retail version that is in beta! It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out this is  just wrong.
Secondly there is no community. "If you build it they will come". Hint: You have to build it first you dorks. How about a forum? A mailing list? Links to them?
Six Apart is filled with knowledgable people so the only reason that I can see that movabletype.org is in the condition it is in is because they just don't give a shit. The move to GPL movabletype is just PR and nothing else.
Carl is constantly ranting about how bad the ezPublish open source community is because ezPublish does nothing to help. Well now they have company. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:28:01 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Do you think contributing to Drupal is too difficult?</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Originally I was going to write about how few theme contributions Drupal has in it's repository. But this changed after I spent the day trying to contribute the staticHTML module. Then I backported the Channel Nine Theme and thought maybe it would be nice to contribute it also. Well, no way!
What happened? Well I discovered the real reason that Drupal has so few themes is because there are too many barriers in the way. These barriers are specifically designed to thwart windows users. What group of OS user is the largest on the internet? Windows users! hands down. Windows users are the greater part of any IT group you can think of. Designers, programmers, administrators etc. not to mention a whole lot of hobbyist and students.
So why does Drupal insist upon making everything Linux oriented? From the time that you decide that you want to help with the project you are thrown into a world where there is no support for windows users. So if you are a web designer and have made a killer template for Drupal then you probably will not get past first base when it comes to sharing it via the Drupal.org site. This is in comparison to most projects where you zip it up and leave it on the server for consumption. 
After all, you have just used up all your spare time creating the work to be contributed. You would expect at least a hand up in making your contribution available to others.  
Here's a list of things that are Linux centric but can be done on a Windows PC. The thing is that there is no support or documentation given for using them. The list is incredibly short but each item requires a great deal of work. If you have spent 3 months working on a template and learning Drupal then you may be shocked about the amount of work that using these tools requires. I come from using Bit Keeper and Visual Source Safe and I still find it intimidating. It is not the technology itself that is so exasperating but the way that it is being used. These tools are supposed to make things easier not shut you out. The default answer is "there are plenty using this without problem". Okay , but how does that help those that are having problems? What is the majority? Those that can or those that cannot? When there is no documentation of how to do something it is usually because there are not enough people that know how to do whatever it is.

Diff
Patch
CVS source control

If Drupal wants a hundred themes in a month, here's an idea on how to get them. Pass out FTP accounts per Branch. Simple, easy and easier to administrate than CVS. To get consistency in filing they would only have to restrict uploads to uncompressed web documents and run a script to compress them later.
There is also talk of starting an Drupal.org approved list of modules. A good idea would be to save CVS for those modules. For the others FTP space would be good enough. This way the one hit wonders would be seperated from those that are in it for the duration. Besides, CVS is not needed if you don't plan on keeping strict versions within a Branch. Modules and themes in Drupal are not versioned.   

 Do you think contributing to Drupal is too difficult?:
  Do you think that the opinion here is very true? Do you think that the opinion here is NOT very true? Undecided but I am a windows user Undecided but I am not a windows user






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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:05:24 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>2007 Prediction: A Selfish, Advertised and Commercial Web</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[The internet is going to go back to the dot.com days in 2007. Only this time it will be more serious. Expect all of the things that are associated with Web 2.0 to start costing or become part of a large income scheme. 2007 will be the year that venture capitalist will want to see some return on their investments. ROI will become the number one used acronym of the 2007 web.
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:44:24 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>What Makes a Web Scripting Language Successful</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[PHP, Classic ASP and ASP.NET, and soon Ruby, owe their success to shared web hosting. I honestly believe that shared hosting is more important than being "enterprise ready" when it comes to web development.
Shared hosting is the reason that the internet became an economic force. It allows those with great ideas, business drive and marketing sense to build from scratch their dreams and inventions. It allows small companies to make themselves part of a global market place. Shared hosting has allowed individuals to express freespeech and for many to gain a freedom of expression that never would have existed otherwise.
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:36:38 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Builder Buzz nostalgia</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Feeling a little nostalgic I surfed over the waybackmachine.org and looked up some of the old Builder Buzz. Man have we come a long way!
I was amazed by the amount of information that was being traded. While I love Sitepoint.com it still does not have the same feel of comradery that Builder Buzz had. 
So I have to wonder since there are no communities like the old buzz around why is that?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:58:04 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Zends packaging of the Eclipse PHP IDE</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Whatever else comes out of Zends involvement with the Eclipse Foundation will show in time. But right now you can take advantage of the first perk. A pre-packaged version of the Eclipse IDE for PHP is available from Zends download site.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:53:52 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>MyBB forum is not opensource</title>
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As i go through the features and information on many PHP web publishing systems I am also reading their licenses. Since pointing out that SMF forum was not opensource got me hate email I  am going to do the same thing for MyBB forum. 
MyBB forum has a similar license to that of SMF where they force you to advertise their product but in return you get no promises or protection. So I don't recommend you use MyBB.
Why these boards are posted at opensourcecms.com is beyond me. With a domain name like that putting up non-opensource material is misleading. Opensourcecms.com should really do an accounting of what they are promoting.
Well anyway here's the MyBB license which is found at their wiki. The regular one has a broken link which has not been fixed in weeks.
MyBB License Agreement
This MyBulletinBoard End-User License Agreement ("EULA") is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a single entity) and MyBulletinBoard for the MyBulletinBoard product identified above, which includes computer software and may include associated media, printed materials, and "online" or electronic documentation ("MyBulletinBoard"). By installing, copying, or otherwise using the MyBulletinBoard  PRODUCT, you agree to be bound by the terms of this EULA. If you do not agree to the terms of this EULA, do not install or use the MyBulletinBoard Product; you may, however, return it to MyBulletinBoard.
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:05:58 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>My worst fears confirmed. Drupal becomes too complicated</title>
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 <description><![CDATA[If you are high on the new Drupal 4.7 then you may want to take your grain of salt now. The latest release is filled with complications brought on by the new Forms API . Not complicated for the user and not complicated for the originating developers but if you are a PHPer jsut diving into the Drupal code version 4.7 suddenly makes phpNuke code look pleasant. The idea was good, the implementation within the core is badly coded and needs a re-work. 
This is where Drupal is going to have to break down and start confessing that there is better code and better ways. Those better ways are OOP in nature and design.
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 13:09:17 -0700</pubDate>
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