Posts filed under "habari"
So Owen's responded to a few things that I'd written. I knew it was coming, and I knew it would be a big one, so true to form the man's ...
So it seems I might have come across as being negative and I guess some have seen my last few posts as diatribes. Just to be clear on something I'm ...
So now that we've got ourselves a kick ass logo, now would be a good time to make some badges so that everyone can put them on their websites ...
For those who know me from my professional life (I'm a Chartered Engineer), know what a complete filing freak I am. All graduates that have helped me out, or ...
Lets turn our attention to the main menu in Habari. As I mentioned before there has to be a better way than the current method. The reasoning for the current ...
One of my absolute favourite plugins on Habari is the Publish Quote plugin written by Michael. The plugin has done well by me for like over a year, but ...
TweetBacks - Great little plugin for WordPress (that will hopefully be making it's way over to Habari) that bring Tweetbacks. Think of them as trackbacks only made of tweets.
Habari Article on Linux.com - Slowly but surely the revolution will begin.
Christian wrote a little post asking why the Habari community was snubbed in the recent Smashing Magazine 10 Weblog Engines Reviewed post. Why was Habari not included in this list? ...
So I finally got around to doing some work on Habari this weekend, which was awesome. First time I actually used SVN and the guys and gals on the channel ...
The second official release of Habari, version 0.2 is out the door. Everyone has been working real hard, always with love, always with passion. One of the things that ...
Well it's been a bit too long coming, but I think I've found a theme that I can get to grips with relatively easily. I'm going to be hacking Depo ...
Interesting developments over at Six Apart. Lets dig up some of the things I said back in the day about this shall we. For all those in the dark, MT ...
Let me start off by saying that Inksmith is what I view as my biggest online failure, after a fashion and this is what this particular post is about. Whenever I announce a project or something I usually deliver, notice I said whenever I announce a project. I may be a blabber mouth an I do get excited about things and have the urge to talk about them, however I never announce until I'm 100% certain I'm going to follow through (seriously if I didn't do that I'd be writing this sort of shit all the time). I might take some time to bring it forward (usually I take a lot longer that I could possibly want) however the fact of the matter remains that I will see things through. It seems that ever since the 'announcement' of Habari a few moons ago, some have brought up Inksmith as a way to bring discredit to Habari (at least the negative connotations that Inksmith is presented in infers this). It's as though the fact that nothing moving forward on Inksmith is telling of stuff that might not happen on Habari, which honestly is the single most preposterous idea I've ever heard. These are two very very different things and I find those that mention them as though they're linked in the same way done so as an act of ignorance/stupidity/lack of understanding etc. Here's why. The first fact brought forward is to understand what the two things actually were. Inksmith simply was an idea to create a community for bloggers. No this wasn't a rip off on 9rules. I wasn't creating a blog network but rather an area for bloggers to get around and be themselves. Oh sure there wasn't really a central theme for us to bandy around, but what I wanted was a nice buzzing community that helped each other out and was open for people to get to know each other re our love for blogging. It wasn't ground breaking and it wasn't anything crazy, but it would have been fun and loads of the guys where well up for it. The best part of it all was the pictures on the coming soon site. I really liked the fact that we were all pissed off in those photos. It delivered what Inksmith was all about, angry people on the internet venting :).
It's been a truly exciting time for Habari on the design front (not that it's not been exciting on the code front, but I can only really properly comment on all things design to be honest). Since the last time we talked, Michael has been a busy boy with absolutely everything under the sun. All these ideas have been filtering through the designs as we build towards a unified look for the administration panel. Remember these mockups are just that mockups, we're still meandering trying to sort things out, this is an open design process so things are going to change. Don't think that what you see here is gospel and how it's going to be, don't be quoting me fekking Jakob in my face about usability and whatnot. These are the formation months, trust me we're going through MANY MANY loops and discussions. So with that in mind let's begin shall we.
This is the first (hopefully) weekly instalment of the comings and goings on in the Habari Design Community. As this was our first week 'out' it was obviously a pretty wild and exciting ride with an immense amount of interest from all people around the world. What's fascinating to me is that the people at the table currently trying to shape the design aspect of Habari. We've got Michael and myself working on all things admin at the moment, with comments from the entire community. Bryan Veloso has joined the team and he's going to be handling all the website related stuff (from main site to wiki design to whatever the hell else we can keep him busy with) and we have the truly talented Yoram who's kindly offered to do the icons, so as far as I'm concerned we're in pretty good shape regarding the graphical direction the project is going to have.
It's been one hell of a couple of days since we first talked about the Habari project. There's been a slew of reaction to the news all over the ...