Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: open source

  • Migrating from Podcast Generator to WordPress and Podlove

    In December of 2010, I created “Fuel 4 Educational Change Agents” as a secondary podcast channel to complement my primary “Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcast” channel. I created this secondary channel of “no-edit” and lightly-edited audio recordings using the free, open source software program Podcast Generator, which I learned about doing research for…

  • Two Rising Stars In Africa: eLearning and the Kuali ERP

    In 1997, while still working in Oklahoma, I attended a best practice site visit at the Colorado Community College system. The president of the system opened our visit by saying, “We have had requests from schools in your state to bring in classes….we are coming and there is nothing you can do about it.”  I…

  • WordPress Security Tips (May 2013)

    These are my tweeted notes (along with some from other attendees) on Tony Perez of Sucuri‘s excellent webinar for WebDesign.com on WordPress security on May 1, 2013. Many thanks to iThemes for hosting this GREAT webinar. [View the story “WordPress Security Tips (May 2013)” on Storify] Technorati Tags: blog, security, wordpress

  • April 2013 OKC WordPress User Group Meetup Notes

    These are my notes from last night’s WordPress User’s Group Meetup in Edmond, Oklahoma. The OKC WordPress Users Group meets each month (generally) on the last Monday of the month at 7 pm. Many thanks to Erick Gfeller and Morgan Estes for the informative presentations! * [View the story “#wordPressOKC Notes 29 April 2013” on…

  • Lessons Learned from WordPress Blog Upgrades

    This evening I spent a few hours updating a long list of different WordPress blogs I maintain and have put online in the past few years. Since I have so many sites online now, I probably should commit regular time each month or so to this upgrade process. Not upgrading your site can leave you…

  • Unplugging from the Commercial Software Grid: Open Source is not Three Guys in a Shed Anymore.

    Since Wes called me Oklahoma’s “Open Source Yoda turned Wyoming Cowboy”in a recent post and has given me the opportunity to write while he is away I thought I would hit on one of my favorite topics for my final post, Open Source Software (OSS). Please let it be noted that Yoda probably has more…

  • Use Tweet Nest to Create a Personal Twitter Information Trap

    Put your “propeller head beanie hat” on for this one. In this post, I’ll share details about configuring a CRON job in CPANEL for a hosted installation of Tweet Nest, as well as some suggestions and links for setting up Tweet Nest from scratch. Tweet Nest is a free / open source solution based on…

  • Professional Digital Publications Archive Project

    This week has already included two major life milestones for me, and one more is coming on Friday: Texas Tech University officially approved the final, corrected version of my dissertation (“Impact Analysis of Phonecasted Lecture Summaries“) for publication in the Texas Digital Library. Today’s notification email indicated I should be ready to wait up to…

  • Security Tips for WordPress: Understanding Network Attacks

    These are my notes from the April 20, 2012, Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group meeting which focused on “Security Tips for WordPress.” The security portion of our meet up tonight was shared by Chris Dodds, whose website is FocusFire. (@focusfirebiz on Twitter) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We met at The Div…

  • WordPress Basics by Lisa Sabin-Wilson

    These are my notes from our March 26, 2012, Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group meeting. Our speaker tonight is Lisa Sabin-Wilson, author of the WordPress for Dummies books and BuddyPress For Dummies, WordPress All In One For Dummies and WordPress Web Design For Dummies. Lisa lives in Wisconsin and Skyped in to our meeting. We…