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Looking through the Joomla New Extensions feed last night, I saw a new extension named Profiler. Can you believe it? - Profiler - the name I'd given one of my apps which is still in development. Of course, I was initially worried that someone had released my extension as their own - but that doesn't appear to be the case.
This has happened to me only twice, but it concerns me nonetheless. Both times, I have decided to post as AC (Anonymous Coward) because of the controversial nature of my comments. Both times, I challenged mainstream opinion with statements by the accepted authorities. Both times, within an hour, my post vanished—blatant censorship.
... isn't necessarily good for the wallet.
That's what they say, but it still bothers me a bit.
I've been writing free extensions for Joomla for a while now. There is one criteria that must be met before I'll write a Joomla extension:
- No free extension currently exists that does the same thing
It has come to my attention that several sites I built while working for ECTISP have been taken down. Let it be known that I have not been an employee of theirs since February of 2010 and I no longer have any contact with them. I don't like the way they do business, and moving on allows me to focus on building trust with my clients.
Read more: Self-Sufficient Solutions: Building Trust with Clients
I submitted a couple of tech-support stories to Infoworld for their "Off the Record" blog and they published them. I would've given them the stories for free, but they insisted on paying me. Cool huh?
I read some forum posts asking if I was still around, and yes I am. I'm fine, my family is fine. I had to set some priorities in response to what I'll label "adversity", and free software was very low on the list. My websites were always here, downloads for anyone who wanted them, but for the last 2 years I haven't been available.
My wife is into 2 things: Guns and Chickens. So when she started her chicken blog website, the name kind of just happened. Thank god for that - it was so easy to come up with this concept.