 We welcome Rikki Pitt to the Jooms.com Team. Rikki brings to Jooms.com a fresh perspective and a fabulous new slant to our approach to Joomla! - our favourite application framework for web solutions.
Rikki has been given a clear brief to provide a cutting edge appeal to the site. As well as to focus on basics that will assist the new user and administrator to get started - fast.
Welcome Rikki, onward and upward. |
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Packt Publishing announced (14th November 2006) Joomla! as the the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award.
With 16,000 votes for more than 70 different Open Source Content Management Systems nominated for the award, Joomla! was judged winner of the final. After eight weeks of voting from visitors to www.PacktPub.com and judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and CMSPros, Joomla! triumphed with the most votes, winning $5,000.
Coming in a very close second place and collecting $3,000 is Drupal which was commended for its ease of use and exceptional documentation. In third place came Plone, who receive $2,000. Built on the Zope platform, Plone is very different to the other CMS’s in the top five and was noted for its steep learning curve. However it was praised by the judges for its power, flexibility, the customization it offered and its integration with LDAP.
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Joomla! won Best Linux / Open Source Project at UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, in London on 25th October 2006.
This is the second year running, the Joomla! team has won the prestigious award. Louis Landry, Johan Janssens and Peter Russell accepted the award from LinuxUser and Developer magazine publisher Maggie Meer. |
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Important : From Joomla.org : "But before we get into reams of detail about just how good Joomla! 1.5 beta is, remember this is a beta and is not yet ready for use on a production website. We need the community to roll up its sleeves and seek out bugs (and feed this back to the development working group), before we enter the release candidate phase."
Which essentially means that the current beta release is just for testing. Not for live or production use. You should ideally use this in a test environment to get a hang of things as they will be.
So does this mean I should use the current CMPs (Components, Modules and Plugins) to create the next killer app. Well, yes and no. Most components currently available are a long way off from being 1.5 compatible. Ditto for modules and plugins. While migrating the core content of 1.0.11 release to 1.5 will be easy (or so they say), migrating the component data and ensuring 1.5 database compatibility is going to be a HUGE problem. Don't take my word for it - see what one of the senior Joomla! 3PD developers has to say about it here.
So what is Joomla! 1.5?
From Joomla.org : "Joomla! 1.5 beta marks the most significant watershed in Joomla's history. This effort represents a complete refactoring of the Joomla! codebase and leverages a new API that allows developers to deliver more robust and innovative applications than ever before. Joomla! 1.5 means freedom of choice: you choose how it operates, you choose how it integrates, you choose what the output is ... you choose how users are authenticated. For both the user and the developer, Joomla! 1.5 beta is a simplified yet more powerful system, and from the developer's perspective, provides them with the freedom and flexibilty to build anything they want."
In simple terms, its bigger and better with a whole lot of more horsepower that the web mechanics can use to give you even more bang for the already squeezed buck. Easier to program means better components. Easier to control output means a better user experience or GUI. Being able to choose how users are authenticated means freedom from the shackles of the traditional nine levels of Joomla user presets.
"As with previous releases, Joomla! 1.5 will provide a unified and easy-to-use framework for delivering content for websites of all kinds. To support the changing nature of the Internet and emerging web technologies, Joomla! required substantial restructuring of its core functionality and we also used this effort to simplify many challenges within the current user interface."
Web 2.0 is a reality, not only are apps, but the way the web responds to any website is totally changing. Accessibility has become one of the primary requirements for any site, rather than a sidestream also required mod. It is extremely important to note that SERPs are totally dependent on the perceived value of your code by their spider and algos.
So in a nutshell - Joomla 1.5 will help bring your website into the new web, but it won't be a lot easier than the delivery of a new baby.
BTW, came across this gem at the developer network for all you statjunkies out there check it out : Google Labs Trends
And for all you commercial developers and companies thinking whether Joomla is worth it : read this.
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