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…
New Video Class: Drupal 6 to 7 Migration
If your website is still running on Drupal 6, it’s time to migrate. When Drupal 8 is released, Drupal 6 support will stop soon afterwards.…
New Video Class: Joomla 1.5 to 3 Migration
If your website is still running on Joomla 1.5, it’s definitely time to migrate. Support for Joomla 1.5 ended over two years ago, and Joomla…
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…
We Redesigned the OSTraining Book Series
Note: This blog post is one of several announcements we’re making to celebrate our 5th birthday. My name is Chiara Aliotta and I’m delighted to be…
Ronna-Renee Jackson from the Chattanooga Technology Council
Welcome to “New Tech Cities” series at OSTraining. In this series we’re talking about cities that were rundown but are re-inventing themselves, as using technology…
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…
New Video Class: Introduction to the Command Line
Before there were Windows or Mac machines on your desktop, there was the command line. If you wanted to look at the directory structure of…
New Video Class: GIMP Part 1
In this first part one of a four part series, Vicki introduces you to the power of GIMP and covers the basics of installation, layers…
The Absolute Beginners Guide to Podcasting: Production
Welcome to the 3rd part of our series on podcasting for beginners. Here are all 5 parts of the series: Part 1: Preparation Part 2:…
New Video Class: Drupal Build a Film Site (Part 1)
In this class, Robert Ring takes us through a detailed site build for a film review site in Drupal. From planning, installing modules and setting…
New Video Class: Drupal Build a Film Site (Part 2)
In this second part of this class, Robert continues the project to build a film review site in Drupal. Part 2 of this class shows…
How to Use Honeypots to Fight Spam
We recently released an awesome plugin named OSpam-a-not. This extension protects your forms from a flood of spam. At the moment it’s only available for…
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…
Keep Your Website E-Mail Safe: WordPress Mail Security Functions
In a previous post I wrote about how to send email with PHP using WordPress’ wp_mail() function. Before you send that email though, there are…
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…
New Video Class: How to Publish Your Plugin at WordPress.org
So you have that shiny new plugin you created for your WordPress site and you’d love to share it with the world! But you’re not…
New Video Class: WordPress BackWPup
One of the most important things you should do with your WordPress site is maintain a regular schedule of backups. In this class, Topher demonstrates…