WPCandy presents: Unofficial International Wordpress Day. That was yesterday, but I’m sure you can still join in in the fun.

Our good colleagues at Alledia have written a tutorial on how to have a Joomla template with different headers for different pages. (This little feature is one of the most common request we receive from clients.)

Short, little post on the MyDrupal site about how to choose a Drupal theme for your site. Useful.

As most of you may already now, Firefox 3 is to be released today at 13:00 EST.

To download it simply go to getfirefox.com and get your free copy.

OpenProj released by Projity , is a free, open source desktop project management software alternative to Microsoft Project. It’s available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows, and it’s free.

Fifteen years in the making, everyone’s favorite software to run Windows programs on Linux and Unix, Wine, is almost ready for its 1.0 release.

Dimdim Web is an open source conferencing software, which competes with services like WebEx and GoToMeeting, provides almost all the important features you need for conducting a conference over the Web. It’s available in three flavors — a feature-limited but usable Web-based free version, a no-holds-barred fee-based Enterprise version.

Campsite is an open source content management system (CMS) tuned for professional journalists. Like its broadcast radio sibling Campcaster, Campsite targets independent media operating in emerging democracies and countries in transition. The CMS’s latest release, 3.0, is a major update designed to be simpler to install and maintain.

Whitepapers, cheat sheets and free books for Drupal. A short, but good list
available here.

VirtueMart, Joomla’s prime free component for running a shop, has just released its newest version, 1.1.0. VirtueMart is a solid eCommerce component, and this new release is stable and it works natively with Joomla 1.5. The full list of features for this new version is available here.

This article by Coding Horror detailing some of Wordpress’s performance flaws has received a lot of attention recently. The Wordpress Digg effect mentioned in the article is a real problem, and what seems to tick most people is the Wordpress developers’ dismissal of the issue. See also Daring Fireball.

CNet’s WebWare award goes to Drupal. This is good news for the community, and a testament to its success and promise.

JoomlaPerformance has a very good article on how to speed up a Joomla site. First on the list: the template, make sure it’s light and not bloated. Couldn’t agree more.

Adobe gets in the business of online photo editing with Photoshop Express. Pretty neat, and lets you store up to 2Gb for free.

So, given that this is a fairly shiny Monday here in Toronto, here’s a link you can use to waste your time right: The Warholizer. Turn your photos into Warhol-like posters.

Packt Publishing (one of our sponsors) shows some love to Joomla 1.5, by releasing a new book on how to build websites with it.

CushyCMS is not open source, but it’s a CMS that’s easy and straightforward. Great tagline too: “100% free until we figure out how to make money off this thing”.

Magento is a new open source e-commerce platform with great promise. So far, open source e-commerce solutions have been few and problematic. It’s driven by PHP/MySQL and it offers something that all e-commerce customers crave: one-page checkout. Worth a shot.