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So I’ve made the move to Pretoria to start life at Nieu Communities. Instead of clogging this blog with updates, I’ve set up a new one where you can keep track of what I’m doing – if you’d like to! So far so good, by the way. I’ve cooked dinner twice, eaten an awesome cheese and jam vetkoek, realised I have to deal with power failures between 1:30 and 4 every afternoon, got up at 5:40 once, and met some great musicians.

My new blog is called “Beyond the Boerewors Curtain” and you can visit it at http://boereworscurtain.blogspot.com/

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A pdf of presentation slides from the “Drupal Theming” presentation at DrupalCon 07.

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I’ve had conversations a few times in the last few months about open source content management systems. The top ones people usually look at at Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Wordpress is great – this blog is powered off Wordpress and some bigger sites run off the platform – although as a development platform I’ve moved away from it. I’ve developed a number of sites using Joomla and thoroughly enjoyed using it, as long as nothing too complex was attempted. There’s even a Joomla South Africa community! It’s easy to install and has a lot of add-on components, so lots of people use it. I’ve moved away from Joomla too now in favour of a more powerful and flexible system: drupal.

mydrupal.com has a great overview of drupal vs joomla.

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Apple has released a new laptop at MacWorld – and it’s superthin! Welcome the MacBook Air! It’s as thin as your index finger, has 2 GBs of memory and an 80 GB hard drive. Or you can upgrade to a solid-state hard drive – which has no moving parts (!). The battery has been redesigned and reportedly gives 5 hours of life – while using wireless! B-e-a-utiful!

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