Since I use this plugin on my blog I will actually be taking a look at it in the coming days/weeks/months depending on how busy my regular day job keeps me. First appearance seem to indicate yet another change in the way the ajax save button works on the widgets page causing borkage in the ugliness I had to use to get the widget to save correctly last time.

We might end up being locked in this duel with the WordPress widget page author’s for eternity methinks

Update: I’ve identified the cause, and to fix it will require yet another save click hack that I am reluctant to apply just yet. Have posted to wp-hackers to see if there are any alternatives to geting this fixed.

I installed the K2, engine for Joomla just based on the fact that I use K2 for WordPress and it’s great. A weak reason to do so, I know, but one none-the-less.

It’s still too soon to comment on my initial impressions, but watch out for some opinions in true jba fashion as well as possibly a few tips also.

Okay, time for one opinion; the getting started guide is way to floral (in the literary sense) for a getting started guide. Found it incredibly annoying.

Quote from the announcement by Peter Galli at MS:

It is important to note that, under the Community Promise, anyone can freely implement these specifications with their technology, code, and solutions.You do not need to sign a license agreement, or otherwise communicate to Microsoft how you will implement the specifications.

The Promise applies to developers, distributors, and users of Covered Implementations without regard to the development model that created the implementations, the type of copyright licenses under which it is distributed, or the associated business model.

Under the Community Promise, Microsoft provides assurance that it will not assert its Necessary Claims against anyone who makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, imports, or distributes any Covered Implementation under any type of development or distribution model, including open-source licensing models such as the LGPL or GPL.

Full Community Promise over at Microsoft.

Note: as Miguel says in his post, mono implements a whole bunch of .Net technology above and beyond ECMA C# and CLI and those parts (ASP.Net ADO.Net etc) aren’t currently covered by this promise.

Special thanks to Nick Hodge, for inviting me to talk at an incredibly interesting panel about Microsoft and Open Source. Really enjoyed the session and hoped all attendees did as well. The panel got a decent turn out too.

Thanks also to all the panellists;

• Richard Buggy
• Lachlan Hardy
• John O’Brien
• Tatham Oddie

The guys (Nick Hodge and Jorke Odolphi) are also doing a series of Open Source talks around the country (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane) starting on the 23rd June. I’m told the theme of the sessions is meant to be a more of a “get-to-know-you” type session, the same sort of theme as the ReMIX panel. Check it out.

Interesting primer video about the elements and principles of design and how the apply to software inteface components. Little long and sound quality is a little kitchen-esque but still some interesting concepts relayed relatively convincingly.

Elements & Principles of Design – Free Software from Andy Fitzsimon on Vimeo.

So I’ll be on a panel at ReMIX 09 titled, “Sibling Rivalry or Love: Microsoft and Open source.“.

Should be an interesting discussion, totally looking forward to it.