Blog software reviews galore

There’s a huge 92-page (!!!) mutl-blog software review done by Robin Good. Among other systems, it also covers Drupal and WordPress MU (Multi User).

"Group blogs leverage the potential of immediacy and ease of use of
traditional blogs while matching them with the facilities needed to support solid contribution of multiple writers. "

Read the rest of it here.

On another note, Tangent Mobile has also put up a review of Drupal and WordPress – 2 of my favourite CMS/blog software. I find myself agreeing with the following comment in particular

"The drawbacks of open source are that you need to be careful which modules you use. Some can clobber the other and can break the system so testing is important"

Once it’s been set up and is nicely running though, the memory of the initial hassles fade away very quickly

Read the rest of it here.

Kubrick headers

Now that the Kubrick theme’s been ported to just about every CMS (Content Management System) or blogging software there is, the appearance of this repository of Kubrick headers sure it welcome!

largest Moodle deployment by far

It’s amazing just how far Moodle, an open source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) project, has come. Several polytechnics in Australia have embarked on the largest deployment of Moodle to date. Four universities are likely to migrate to Moodle (probably from WebCT or Blackboard?) by July, and 10 secondary schools are already using it. 

While it is good to read about how money is being saved for channeling towards other educational needs too, I do wish that a "blueprint" for such deployments exist so that the rest of the world might benefit from their experience. Heck, I don’t even know of any local school using Moodle locally!

Is it Tiger time?

 Not sure how it happened without me quite noticing, but OS X 10.4 Tiger is here!

So, am I going to  buy it right away, especially since there’s a substantial education discount available for it? Well, as much as I’d love to, I’m simply too swamped with work (exam papers to grade etc) to even chance the possibility of my Macs getting messed up, even a little – or else I’ll be spending hours troubleshooting this-and-that.

So June  it is then – and by then, Apple should have issued the 10.4.1 update too.

p.s. this is my first post with the TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor plug-in for WordPress installed. Seems to work just great! Hope it becomes a standard pre-installed plugin in future releases of WordPress: it’s definitely handy!

Anti-aliased corners

Among other things, the popularity of the Kubrick template (first built for WordPress, now ported to countless other CMS/blog systems) showed just how hot anti-aliased, rounded corners are. But thus far, the methods to achieve this effect haven’t been particularly easy to achieve, often involving some image splicing. This is a simple method utilising CSS and Javascript. Good for those who’d like to customise their templates.