5 benefits of switching from Google Analytics to Plausible
5 benefits of switching from Google Analytics to Plausible Tom Greenwood Mon, 05/16/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like Google Analytics (GA) has been the industry standard web analytics tool for about as long as there have been analytics tools. Nearly every brief that my WordPress agency receives specifies that GA must be installed. And there is rarely any debate around whether it’s the best...
Use Composer to require Git repositories within PHP projects
Use Composer to require Git repositories within PHP projects Jonathan Daggerhart Mon, 05/16/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like The dependency management tool Composer provides multiple ways to include Git repositories within a PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) project. In many cases, repositories have been created on Packagist, so requiring them with Composer is very straightforward. But what do you...
5 reasons to apply for B Corp certification
5 reasons to apply for B Corp certification Tom Greenwood Sat, 05/14/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like Wholegrain Digital just passed its fifth anniversary of being a certified B Corp. B Corp is one of the most robust independent certifications assessing whether a business is run responsibly in terms of its environmental impact, its treatment of workers and suppliers, its impact on communities, and...
When open source meets academic publishing: Platinum open access journals
When open source meets academic publishing: Platinum open access journals Joshua Pearce Fri, 05/13/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like Academics routinely give away their work to companies for free—and then they buy it back! Can you imagine a farmer giving away free food and then paying to get it back for dinner? Probably not. Yet academics like me have been trapped for decades in a scheme where we...
How collaborative commons and open organization principles align
How collaborative commons and open organization principles align Ron McFarland Thu, 05/12/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this I have read Jeremy Rifkin’s book The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, which has a strong connection to open organization principles, particularly community building. Rifkin also writes about the future of...
Get started with Bareos, an open source client-server backup solution
Get started with Bareos, an open source client-server backup solution Heike Jurzik Thu, 05/12/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a distributed open source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) that preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems. Bareos has been around since 2010 and is (mainly) developed by the company Bareos GmbH...
