WordPress Hosting

WordPress is undoubtedly the most popular, feature rich open source blog publishing application used on millions of websites. It is useful as a content management system and much more with thousands of plugins that extend what WordPress initially can do. Creating a web site using WordPress is easy when... 

osDate Needs To Trim Some Fat

osDate, still one of the noobs to the open source scene, is a dating / matchmaking application developed and distributed by Darren Gates of Tufat.com. I happened upon it about 3-4 years ago while looking for a dating script for a client. Although it was still in its infancy it did have appeal, and at... 

Commercial vs. Open Source Software – Creating Standards For Profit

The days of Open Source seem to be fading away. Now a day, open source is not much different than commercial software. There are a number of individuals and companies that take advantage of freely available applications as a means to profit. Gone it seems are the days of the Open Source Initiative and... 

Eos Online Merchant – First Look, Maybe The Last

I stumbled on Eos Online Merchant [another osCommerce fork based off CRE Loaded] back in November when The Evil Greedy Overlord [Sal Iozzia of Chain Reaction Web] sprang the new pricing structure on the CRE community. David Graham, former employee of Chain Reaction and Dean of the osCommerce University,... 

CRE tells community to get Fucked

Not long after posting my previous message, Sal the “Evil Greedy Overlord” banned me from the forums once again [truth must hurt]. This was after he acted like a child and replaced my forum avatar with a picture of a troll with purple hair just because I have the temerity to tell the truth.... 

CRE Loaded just got worse

I could all out flame CRE Loaded and Salvatore Iozzia here today but what good would it do? I doubt very highly that it would make any real difference to the current CRE Loaded open source model. Fact is, I had plenty to say in the “Sal’s Message to the Community” thread at the CRE...