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Joomla's Project Director Talks 1.1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fast-times-at-joomla-high dept.

daria42 writes "It's been a hectic six months for the Joomla open-source CMS since its split from the Mambo project, but according to this interview with project director Andrew Eddie there are even faster times ahead. Next week Joomla will make its formal debut at LinuxWorld Expo in Boston, with the milestone Joomla 1.1 release due towards the end of April. As Mambo and Joomla continue to diverge, Eddie says, users and developers will be forced to declare their colours and pick one or the other for production sites."

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  1. Sounds cool but wtf is Joomla? by OlivierB · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ah yes that's right, Salshdotters need to always use Wikipedia as reference guide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla

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    1. Re:Sounds cool but wtf is Joomla? by Bromskloss · · Score: 3, Informative
      or you could read the summary? "Joomla open-source CMS"

      Which would then lead you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS.

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  2. Re:huh? by switchfutguy · · Score: 2, Informative

    it's pretty well the best content management system for the web...and it's *free* thank you open source

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  3. When it IS released... by n00tz · · Score: 3, Informative

    You'll be able to test it out at OpenSourceCMS.com

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  4. Looking forward to 1.1.... by joeygb · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been using Joomla for a while now and it is definitely the way to go in the Mambo vs. Joomla decision. Joomla is really great for personal sites because of the vast number of themes/modules/plugins/etc. out there. The only problem is that a lot of these 3rd party components are far from being a stable, polished final product. I think that if Joomla wants to be used more in the business world then it probably has a lot of work to do, but for less "mission critical" uses Joomla is the way to go. I think that Joomla could learn a lot from another big open source CMS, Drupal, when it comes to building a CMS for business uses.

    As an aside, is it required that all CMSs have ridiculous names?

    1. Re:Looking forward to 1.1.... by mitchy · · Score: 2, Informative

      Regarding the needs for "mission critical" buzzword compliance, we hope you will see the huge changes we have made to the API (and underlying core systems) to make it easier for developers to make sophisticated applications, and quickly. That has always been a benefit of Joomla, and the next release will really open up a lot of doors and provide a lot of additional tools for developers. You could reasonably say that the Joomla CMS was rewritten with the Joomla Framework.

      As an aside, is it required that all CMSs have ridiculous names?

      First, come up with a name for your CMS. It must be original, easy to remember, and sound good in 142 languages.

      Now, this name also must have a TLD available, otherwise there's no value in the name because the TLD will always point to someone else's website.

      Not only was everything in english taken, but most nice-sounding meaningful words in Swahili. So the name Joomla (despite being a sound I make when I fall down the stairs) was much better than what was available at the time. So what was available?

      • www.gilflapsnatwabble.org
      • www.hyposqueelygackumoid.org
      • www.stickumscumdiddlywhop.org
      • www.gooberflasm.org

      ...and so on. So the alternatives were not that attractive, give us a break man!

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  5. Re:So what's the dif ? by smbarbour · · Score: 2, Informative

    It really simple. Joomla has all of the developers. Therefore, Joomla continues to improve.

    Mambo might have some developers, but they are not the ones who wrote it in the first place.

    Disclaimer: I've never used either product (nor do I have my own website). I speak only of what I've heard.

  6. Re:YACMS by hey! · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, there's mindshare I guess. A lot of people use Mambo and contribute products and themes for it. That's huge for most potential users.

    After experimenting with it, I'd say it's biggest drawback is a lack of a decent security model. Maintaining a seperate user database is bad enough, but the security model is primitive beyond belief. It doesn't have ACLs, or even anything approaching the old Unix groups. This means its not only difficult to manage Mambo in the context of other network services you might provide, it's a PITA to manage multiple services within Mambo.

    I'm looking at Drupal now as a replacement.

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  7. recommendation for CMS w/o database server? by penguin-collective · · Score: 3, Informative

    Does anybody have a recommendation for a CMS similar to Joomla or Drupal that doesn't require a separate database server? Something that gets by with either the file system or SQLite? WYSIWYG content creation is a must in this application, so Wikis aren't an option.

  8. Re:Useful CMS comparisons? by wandazulu · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here you go