Joomla Thoughts

Nov 8, 2010 | No Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Someone asked recently what I think about Joomla. It’s a great framework and platform to build websites on top of. It’s still largely unfriendly, though. I know there are tons of modules, but it’s just so user UNfriendly. Some people would [...]

The Open Source Community Project Named Gnomepal

Mar 29, 2008 | 22 Comments

The last few days have been a whirlwind of backchannel (and front-facing) activity surrounding my call-to-action. 95% of the feedback has been positive AND productive, with some of my favorite responses coming from people who had working code to donate – and a nod from Dries on one of Adam’s follow-up posts. It was most [...]

Five must-have Joomla plugins (and tips)

Feb 22, 2007 | 4 Comments

When I mentioned in my Picks that we deployed Joomla to drive this year’s Gnomedex site, a Gnomie responded enthusiastically. Jack Bremer operates a handful of Joomla-driven sites, including Prospect Burma and his own 3B Web Design. John and I have been hacking away at it for a while now, but he definitely knows more [...]

Server Problems

Nov 8, 2006 | 6 Comments

So, yeah… we’ve been fighting a few server burps over the past few days. I don’t even know where to begin – but I do know where we’re headed, and that’s up. Sean and Chris Brunner have reverse engineered an awful lot to get us to some level of stability, and there’s still much work [...]