Views Calc – Calculations for Your Fields in Views
Views Calc is useful little Drupal module that allows you to perform calculations inside Views. Views Calc allows you to perform Count, Sum, Average or…
Author: Steve Burge
Steve is the founder of OSTraining. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. Steve's work straddles the line between teaching and web development.
New Videos: Git and Version Control, Part 1
If you want to be a web developer in 2015, you have to understand Git. Git is a free and open source version control system…
Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman from Center Centre on Design, Learning, and Tech in Chattanooga
Welcome to the “New Tech Cities” series at OSTraining. In this series we’re talking about cities that were rundown but are re-inventing themselves, and using…
The State of Drupal 8: March 2015
Over the last few years we’ve been writing a regular series called the “State of Drupal 8”. We aim to give a short, plain English…
Enormous Changes to Google Summer of Code in 2015
The Google Summer of Code (GSOC) is a progam that has helped many open source projects. Google accepts applications from projects and provides up to…
How Do I Get a Job in Drupal?
Are you looking for a job? Have you considered working in the Drupal world? Several OSTraining members have. They wondered about the skills they would…
Day 1 Review of Mautic: Marketing Automation
It no longer seems fashionable to release large, fully-featured, open source platforms. It’s much more common for developers to release small libraries or frameworks. Mautic…
Recover from a Lost Drupal Administration Menu
We’ve taught a LOT of people to use Drupal 7 over the last 4 years and one bug comes up more than any other. When…
How Popular are Wix, Weebly and Squarespace?
If you live in the US or the UK, it’s been hard to avoid the advertising blitz for DIY website tools such as Squarespace, Wix…
Magento’s Future? Keep Calm and Carry On (For Now)
Our post last month entitled, about Magento being up for sale, was one of the most popular we’ve ever published. Despite the uncertainly around it’s future…
Matt Mullenweg: Open Source Needs Help from SaaS
Last week I was fortunate to go to Pressnomics for the first time. It was a really great conference that focused on business growth, particularly…
OSTraining Turns 5 With Several Announcements
Five years ago, on February 1st 2010, we launched the membership area here at OSTraining. When we launched, we had no employees and only 50…
More OSTraining Topics and Videos
Note: This blog post is one of several announcements we’re making to celebrate our 5th birthday. With our 5th anniversary here, we’re happy to announce two…
New Tech Cities: Can technology help turn around cities?
Here are all the posts in this “New Tech Cities” series so far: {snippet chattanooga} This blog post series is one of the most personal…
Magento is Up for Sale
It has been a tough start to 2015 for Magento. Magento is one of the most popular open source platforms ever, taking as much as…
Add a New Moderation State Tab to Workbench
One of our members was watching our video class on Drupal’s Workbench module and had been getting it set up on their site. However, they…
Please Take the OSTraining 2015 Survey
Hi Everyone, Once every year, we ask you for your opinion about OSTraining. We ask for your feedback on 3 things: What we’re doing right…
Talking with Andy Miller from RocketTheme about Grav
In August last year we reviewed Grav, a new CMS from Andy Miller and the RocketTheme team. Andy’s done great work over the years. RocketTheme…
10 CMS Predictions for 2015
The last couple of years have been quiet in the CMS world. Large, existing projects produced almost no major releases. New projects often showed steady…
1 Great Thing in 2014: Mobile is Eating the World
I listen to hundreds of podcasts every year, while I’m driving, running or working in the garden. So, for this week’s blog series called “1…