Tag Archives: open source

Gearing Up For WordCamp SA 2008 – 23 August 2008

Posted 14 August 2008 | By Mike | Categories: South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 1 Comment

This blog is powered by WordPress – the phenomenally popular and powerful open source blogging CMS (content management system).
As with most open source initiatives WordPress has enormous online community contributing to it and improving it on an ongoing basis in the form of plugins, themes and more.
We even have some pretty [...]

Philip Copeman’s “Bill Gates – My Part In His Downfall”

Posted 09 July 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Random Thoughts | 2 Comments

On the back of the official announcement of Bill Gates’ last day as a full time Microsoft employee, this thought-provoking article by Philip Copeman, who is the Project Leader of TurboCASH Accounting – “the worlds leading Open Source Accounting package.”
Regardless of which side of the open source / proprietary software fence you sit, it’s worth [...]

Chris Pirillo On WordPress Vs. Drupal

Posted 27 June 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Videos | 7 Comments

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