Joomla's Project Director Talks 1.1 96
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."
Sounds cool but wtf is Joomla? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:huh? (Score:2, Informative)
When it IS released... (Score:3, Informative)
Looking forward to 1.1.... (Score:3, Informative)
As an aside, is it required that all CMSs have ridiculous names?
Re:Sounds cool but wtf is Joomla? (Score:3, Informative)
Which would then lead you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS [wikipedia.org].
Re:So what's the dif ? (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Re:Looking forward to 1.1.... (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?
...and so on. So the alternatives were not that attractive, give us a break man!
Re:YACMS (Score:3, Informative)
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.
recommendation for CMS w/o database server? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Useful CMS comparisons? (Score:3, Informative)