Category: Open

  • Winnie-the-Pooh welcomes Penguin to the Hundred Acre Wood this October

    Coincidence or has Winnie-the-Pooh finally met Tux! In an upcoming book celebrating the 90th anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh, the Hundred Acre Wood welcomes a new character to its cast: Penguin. Pooh meets his new pal Penguin in a story titled “Winter: in which Penguin arrives in the Forest” by Brian Sibley. (illustration © Mark Burgess, The…

  • Why Use WordPress

    Why use WordPress in a classroom and for production websites?  Well, one reason is that one in four websites is now powered by WordPress. The milestone figure doesn’t represent a fraction of all websites that have a CMS: WordPress now powers 25 percent of the Web. The latest data comes from W3Techs, which measures both…

  • Windows Live Writer Is Now Open Live Writer

    Scott Hanselman blogs about the release of Open Live Writer which replaces Windows Live Writer (not updated since 2012) which despite its lack of maintenance is a very popular blogging platform, especially with the WordPress community.  Give it a try and see. ARE YOU AN EXISTING USER OF WINDOWS LIVE WRITER? We encourage you to…

  • Choosing the Platform

    Choosing a platform upon which to teach or blog or run a server is a crucial step.  It isn’t simply that it is important to consider which is the latest and greatest, nor to discard that as often a newly developed system gives a much needed thorough housecleaning; however, it helps to consider which platform…