"Nice post and very interesting. Perception of ease of use seems to be the main qualifier in each example industry/application here - Wordpress gets strong growth due to that perception, but even that platform is partly being displaced by…"
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Andrew J Holden replied to Andrew J Holden's discussion Weever Apps Free Trial Announcement (make almost any J! site an app) in the group Member Announcements"Update - remove the 'trial' part - Weever Apps basic is now free for anyone in the Joomla! or Wordpress community (or any other Free Open Source platform, if they're willing to code for it. :)
http://weeverapps.com/free"
Andrew J Holden commented on Rob Porter's blog post Weever Apps for Joomla goes Free"Hi Everyone,
It's Andrew H., Lead Designer at Weever Apps. Rob beat me to sharing the news here :)
..here's the announcement we sent out about going free - we also just added mobile-maps of any Joomla + K2 content (more…"
Alan Sparkes replied to Andrew J Holden's discussion Weever Apps Free Trial Announcement (make almost any J! site an app) in the group Member Announcements":) sweet"
Andrew J Holden replied to Andrew J Holden's discussion Weever Apps Free Trial Announcement (make almost any J! site an app) in the group Member Announcements"Thanks Alan! - I really appreciate that.
Incidentally, we haven't forgotten about your request on displaying more RSS/Forum/Extensions in app-format.
We're spending today and tomorrow refactoring from a component and a bunch of…"
Alan Sparkes replied to Andrew J Holden's discussion Weever Apps Free Trial Announcement (make almost any J! site an app) in the group Member Announcements"This is a vey interesting development. I am in no way affiliated to weaverapps but have used it on our company site. It really is a great alternative to building a mobile app."
Andrew J Holden added a discussion to the group Member Announcements
Weever Apps Free Trial Announcement (make almost any J! site an app)
Hi Everyone - quick announcement: I wanted to share that Weever Apps has now gone to a free 30-day trial: http://weeverapps.com Some background:Robert Porter and I are open-source Joomla! developers (I learned how to code on Mambo and came over on 'day one' to Joomla!; find me in the forums as 'HoldenCreative' or at CartaNova's "Code Labs"). For the last year or so Rob and I have been working on a way to turn almost any Joomla! site into an app. We launched…See More
Andrew J Holden replied to Amy Stephen's discussion Joomla! 1.6 Subtle Changes Important to Understand"Hi Everyone,
We've been working on user-interface improvements using JQuery, but ran into a difficulty bridging a gap between 1.5 and 1.6 language/translation usage; solution here:…"
Andrew J Holden replied to Andrew J Holden's discussion Joomla! Web App, HTML5, Assistant Developer & More.. in the group Classifieds - Services only"Hi Justin,
Thanks - glad to share any good info with ATAAW, really.
I had never really considered using a :fixed declaration on the background graphic - interesting idea. While we developer Weever; updating the site graphics are…"
Justin Kerr replied to Andrew J Holden's discussion Joomla! Web App, HTML5, Assistant Developer & More.. in the group Classifieds - Services only"Thanks for sharing your job openings, Andrew. I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to make a little design suggestion for your cartanova.ca Web site. You have this really nice background graphic that seems to fit right in and support…"
Andrew J Holden added a discussion to the group Classifieds - Services only
Joomla! Web App, HTML5, Assistant Developer & More..
*Hope this is the right forum - I don't want to step on any toes :) Hi all you good folks at ATAAW... new job post: CartaNova Web Design & Marketing is a full-service digital marketing studio that exclusively serves a green business, renewable energy and community not-for-profit clientele. We also provide wind-power web hosting.We’re happy to have some great clients and a good reputation in our industry. We’re now looking for someone to help us serve even more good initiatives like Weever. …See More
Andrew J Holden commented on Amy Stephen's blog post eBay identified as Magento's Invester also involved with Joomla"That's a really interesting development Amy - thanks for the post. I work extensively with both platforms (see: http://www.cartanova.ca/code-labs) and I can see the logic behind Magento behind interested in a better content…"
Andrew J Holden replied to Andrew J Holden's discussion Gawker Hack - *and* - Deviant Art and McDonalds - There is Safety in Open-Source in the group Security"Interesting, I'll have to take a look into it more...
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Andrew J Holden replied to Andrew J Holden's discussion Gawker Hack - *and* - Deviant Art and McDonalds - There is Safety in Open-Source in the group Security"Thanks Robert,
Same here. It's funny how some of the core features of the internet (passwords, email) still require so much thought and coordination.One of the things I plan to look into some point is OpenID and Joomla! If…"
Andrew J Holden added a discussion to the group Security
Gawker Hack - *and* - Deviant Art and McDonalds - There is Safety in Open-Source
Hi Folks, I'm imagine that everyone is now too-familiar with Gawker hack...But just in case, please note that both DeviantArt (email marketing lists, may be used for phishing) and McDonalds (Monopoly?) was also compromised over the weekend!Gawker Sites include: Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Jezebel, io9, Kotaku, FleshbotI've written up a quick list of tools & resources you can use to see if your account(s) (or a client's) was compromised, and a few quick thoughts on why the closed-source nature of…See More
Andrew J Holden commented on Amy Stephen's blog post Congratulations on Joomla! 1.6 RC 1"Congrats to everyone and thank you for your hard work. It *is* appreciated."
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- I'm a long-term Joomla! web designer and have been working with the platform and contributing to the Joomla! CMS project since day one. I work with the eco-friendly web design firm CartaNova.
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Andrew J Holden's Blog
Announcing "Weever – Your Joomla! Site. Mobile. In Minutes."
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:25pm — 8 Comments
New! - Joomla! Tips & Tricks at CartaNova's "Code Labs"
Hi Everyone,
As long-time Mambo --> Joomla! web developers we come up with a lot of hacks, tips and tricks during web site projects. In the early days of Mambo, it felt at times like *everything* was a hack (anyone remember Rey's original extended menu modules? :)
Anyway, aside from contributing to the forums and documentation whenever possible, we're also going to posting our tips at our Code Labs page. We've started with a couple of… Continue
As long-time Mambo --> Joomla! web developers we come up with a lot of hacks, tips and tricks during web site projects. In the early days of Mambo, it felt at times like *everything* was a hack (anyone remember Rey's original extended menu modules? :)
Anyway, aside from contributing to the forums and documentation whenever possible, we're also going to posting our tips at our Code Labs page. We've started with a couple of… Continue
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 10:48am — 6 Comments
The Most Amazing Joomla! User Group Meeting, EVER.
It started as a Joomla! User Group Meeting for South Western Ontario. But for me, it ended in nostalgia-overload retro-gamer sci-fi *heaven*. Not kidding. ;)
http://ow.ly/34oDy
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 10:30am
Joomla! Web Development: Open-Source Awesome
To mark the Joomla!™ Project's fifth birthday (and my fifth year of working with the CMS) I've published a new blog post at CartaNova titled - Joomla! CMS Web Design: Open Source Awesome.
Writing an extensive (rambling?) piece about why Joomla! is so wonderful is something I've been meaning to do for some time, and… Continue
Writing an extensive (rambling?) piece about why Joomla! is so wonderful is something I've been meaning to do for some time, and… Continue
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 1:05pm — 2 Comments
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- At 5:27pm on July 17, 2010,
Robert Vining said… - Beautiful site @cartanova. Glad you decided to join All Together as a Whole. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
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