Lawrence Meckan's Page

"Let's deal with the ancillaries.. CDN's, from a technical perspective, are a dime a dozen. It doesn't matter particularly what platform the code is based on, just that the site can be properly served and propagated through the…"

"In order to learn from your failures, you first have to own them. This is one of the key points in user experience modelling. You can't gloss over hard data and metrics. Figuring out why and how a product is failing is almost as important as…"

"Congrats, Amy and the rest of the ATAAW crew on Mojalo. Forward action is always beneficial. My only reservation is that I'm a little apprehensive about the use of "Zen Garden" as part of the template / layout farm. Surely, within the…"

"@Jeremy, the irony is that ATAAW has sought sponsorship for hosting and the move away from Ning: http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/profiles/blogs/ataaw-site-build-status Sponsorship still remains financial backing. There's no other way of…"

"I'll throw my hat into the ring and provide a counterpoint. The aim of a brand development for ATAAW is to display and transmit identity. The reason brand managers and industrial / enterprise level designers are employed is because most of the…"

"Much props for your work, Harry. The one thing I'm still scratching my head about is the whole SEO niceness. Sure, 1.6 looks better than 1.5 and 1.0 out of the gates with some of its revised classes and identifiers in your generated list, but…"

"I'd second the understanding that large corporate clients need to have a warm feeling about the lifecycle of support. One of the major government sites in Queensland, Australia was built initially in Joomla 1.0.x and I've seen the…"

"Semantics.. Hmm. POSH, uf and/or HTML5. I think we can do it if we try. uF wasn't that hard at the end of the day.."

"OK. Contract has been signed. What exactly are the terms of the deliverables and measurements for return on investment? There is some deliverables and strategy available for the community as part of this contract, or is Voxus doing edicts from on…"

"@Lafrance, nowhere have I accused anyone of being untrustworthy. I've explained the system, as in place now, on both JED and JRD, encourages "anonymous", spamming and gamed comments, reviews, etc.. Therefore the obvious solution is…"

"What is missing primarily from JED is trust and credibility. There's already technological solutions out there to meet that need and Joomla, as a whole, isn't taking advantage of them. This might seem like a brute force solution, but…"

"Leo, it's a good tool. However, in my travels the earlier PHP-based editions of it (not primarily Joomla) were based under Creative Commons, so there is a risk of tainted code/incorrect listing on part of JED. Already approached Paul for…"

"My advice: Any form of captcha, like Flash, should only be used when absolutely all other avenues have been exhausted. That said, I've had intermittent false positives on Akismet and Mollum, talking at length with their engineers on how a…"

"In Australia, the average market price for a stock standard Joomla build (as taken from the JoomlaDays and other sources/networks I've got across the industry) is ~ $4500 AUD, which equates to slightly higher pricing in Australia as Bulgaria…"

"No conspiracy and no paranoia here, Wilco. Just assessing the validity of claims made and how they match up to a historical public record. You remained GSoC program manager for Joomla. Nic was involved with the submissions for Mambo GSoC. These are…"

"So you wouldn't take Nic's word?"