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Successful open source

ByBrian Krogsgard

Jeffrey McGuire — of Acquia, the Drupal version of Automattic — has a great post and accompanying podcast on, “idealism and what successful open source looks like.” It does a great job expressing common ideals. My favorite bit: I want you to be successful at free/libre open source software. That means building safe and secure…

WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases
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WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases

ByBrian Krogsgard

WordPress and Drupal are both releasing security updates today that affect all supported versions of the two popular CMS platforms. Nir Goldshlager, a security researcher and part of the Salesforce.com Product Security Team, discovered a PHP-level vulnerability that could result in denial of service (DoS) attacks. Goldshlager notified the PHP, WordPress, and Drupal security teams…

WordPress for large scale publishing

ByBrian Krogsgard

Felix Salmon talks Content economics on the Reuters blog. Off-the-rack CMSs like WordPress and Drupal are OK for small-to-medium sites, but aren’t particularly well suited to be the framework for a major publishing operation. Okay. Though I find it hilarious that such a comment is made on a blog whose parent company utterly failed building…

Lessons for WordPress, from Drupalcon

ByBrian Krogsgard

Drupalcon is happening, and Drupal founder Dries Buytaert has made his keynote slides available. They are highly informative and well worth looking through, even without the presentation audio. I’ll highlight the big items, but seriously just see the slides, because it’s good to peek across the fence (they are also beautiful). Drupal 8 has been in “feature…

Why semantic versioning is good for complex plugins, and not WordPress core

ByBrian Krogsgard

WooCommerce has announced that they are skipping from version 2.7 to 3.0 and transitioning to SemVer, or semantic versioning. SemVer means that each decimal of a release means something. Whereas WordPress 3.9 and 4.0 were identical in importance, but in SemVer, such a change would recognize the difference between a minor feature release and a…