At last, after nearly 2 and a half years, the rebel alliance that broke away from Mambo CMS and became Joomla, has finally given birth to a new CMS...

Labels: CMS, joomla, news, open source, software

I just found out something really cool in DreamWeaver 8's Find & Replace, here's the crack...

I had a compressed & optimised CSS file, with no line breaks. Thing is that I needed a version WITH line breaks so that it can be worked on a bit easier THEN optimised and compressed.

Trouble is that DreamWeaver doesn't appear to have the option I wanted... I wanted to replace every brace character } with a brace } and a new line/ carriage return/ line feed. I checked DreamWeaver's Help and it didn't enlighten me.

So I just went ahead and did what I thought might work, taking the CRLF knowledge from PHP into DreamWeaver, making sure, because this was a test, to only apply the Find & Replace to the current document ;)

Find: }

Replace: }\n

Replace All

It worked!

Obviously if your CSS is fully compressed you can give every single selector a line break with find & replace on opening braces { and replace with {\n and replace every semicolon ; with ;\n

Labels: css, dreamweaver, software, tools

Joomla! CMS rolled in its 100,000th verified forum user yesterday. That's 100,000 users in just over 18 months and officially "Joomla! has the largest Open Source CMS focused forum on the planet."

Stats-wise the Joomla! forum has:

• An average of 172 new user sign-up each day
• 765,000 posts
• More than 1200 posts daily

There's even a funky Free Joomla! A3 poster to commemorate the ocassion.

Now if the next landmark can be just to get Joomla! 1.5 out of the door, that would be awesome.

Labels: CMS, news, open source, software, tools

There's new bug fix and security releases in versions Wordpress 2.0.9 and Wordpress 2.1.1

Labels: blogging, CMS, software, tools, wordpress

Damn. Damn & blast.

AVG Free anti virus software from Grisoft will no longer be free from 18 Feb 2007.

Thanks AVG,
you kept me virus free
for so many years.

Farewell.

Labels: software, tools

Mozilla have released an alpha version of Firefox 3 code-named 'Gran Paradiso'.

Download the 3.0a2pre aka 'Minefield' for the Mac, PC and Linux.

Labels: browsers, software, tools

Get the FireFox 2.0.0.1 update now :)

Labels: browsers, software, tools

One of the niggles of using Dreamweaver is that once you start using its FTP the software locks up and you can't do any more FTP work. Let's say you're downloading a full site backup and, whilst you're waiting, you want to upload some files elsewhere... well that's tough, unfortunately... you get the nag box "Dreamweaver is currenlty interacting with a server" and have to go make a cup of tea or take a walk around the block.

Well, that's why having a backup FTP programme is so damned handy and what could be better than Free FTP software?

Here's a couple of Free FTP programmes for you to try out:

• CoffeCup FREE FTP
• FileZilla

Labels: ftp, software, tools