Like an excited child at Christmas, I ripped open the packaging of my new Android smartphone and was a bit disappointed by the tiny package I found ... but what a world it opened up to me!  Having played around for a couple of months I can definitely see the future in slim clients using web-based clients - which is exaclty what Mozilla are proposing in the way of an open-source lightweight mobile operating system quirkily named Boot to Gecko (B2G).

It wasn't too long ago that people using anything other than Windows as their operating systems were considered to be geeky boffins with some innate ability to control a computer by typing in commands to a black screen and who were determined to hack the world to death with a single mouse click ..... are the tides changing?

Virya Technologies are starting a series of videos helping newcomers to Joomla! get started - and we'd like your feedback about how we can help you!

A while ago I posted about our in-house challenge to try and adopt each other's specialities in an exercise of broadening our knowledge and trying out new technologies .. my side of the bargain was to try out Linux as my main Operating System (OS).  Here's how I'm getting on so far!

Many people call me a geek, but my geekiness pales in comparison to Ben, our IT Manager.  For too long he has been pestering me to get used to using Linux and for too long I've been giving excuses .... and unfortunately I've just about exhausted them all!  So, in an exchange of roles, Ben is trying Joomla! out to design some websites, and I'm going to be taking Linux for a ride .... and blogging about it along the way too!