Welcome to Baidu's payroll.

Zend, behind the framework to which it uses and a great PHP advocate, also wishes to advocate it's optimised LAMP servers. They have a cache demo to speed up pages on the server side so the "instant" loading is possible.

Optimisation has always been an issue but on shared hosting it's alright as long as you setup some subdomains make-do CDN so you can load your images.

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I run a webshop, and im wondering what the 18 million includes? What would they write this in? Is there 17 million in testing and contracts and 1 million in production? Maintenance agreements? SLA's? Just curious.. 18 million is more than most webs hops earn in a year doing hundreds of jobs probably much bigger than this.

I've seen about 50+ on the streets of Beijing between other fancy pants cars from club owners, celebrities and job x. They build it big in China AND the US, so they fit right in.

I make websites/applications for a living and have a company with designers and developers. IE6 has always been the bane of my existence. So much so that I feel like changing careers so I never have to work with it again. I thought it'd get easier but it's just one extra thing I have to do to get the website done.

We're thinking of charging extra for IE6 compatibility, but I live in China and the majority of IE6 or 3rd party software which use IE6's rendering engine are in abundance. It's as close as I can feel to hating my job every time IE6 comes into the workflow.

I hope you're reading this Microsoft - you've made the web a very unfun place for many years.

Maybe - except they adore Chairman Mao. He's on every note except 1 which isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Chairman Mao is the symbolism for achievement in spite of the US, the environment, Japan and just about every competitive event that drives their nationalism.

Other than that, they hate it when the government doesn't feed them, so if you were to take over, make them hate the current government and retain their 'China No. 1' mentality with Mao thrown in.

Oh and just for the record.. I doubt VERY much the US isn't producing Plutonium. When someone asks where it's coming from, they just need a legitimate answer.

Cameron? Is that you?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/oco/main/index.html

Ohwell...?

I have not heard anything from/about Italy for ages. It's like it never existed.

Also, turn on SEF to remove all the com_ shit from the URL is a good start. Then for sure they won't pick you up in a google search.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=com_contact%26&btnG=Search

The 'multiple category' thing Joomla can't do without additional component (paid - jACL or Juga or something). The rest it can - called DocMan. It can integrate with this ACL sublayer and Joomla will read it as well. So you will have to go with Drupal if you don't want to pay and install about 10 modules to get the same functionality including a WYSIWYG editor and media control.

You'll then spend more time theming the admin interface, setting up those 10 components to work with roles and worrying about where your files are going which might all seem intuitive at the time but then you realise you've wasted 4 days versus the cost of a couple of components with Joomla.

I know a lot of people are REALLY afraid of putting their information online. Companies store it in a database and build a 'profile' of you etc and all that but .. so what?

Is it paranoia or ego like they think people will actually find their life interesting to seek them out or what?

Whilst there are restictions in place, if you're using it for the right job then this should never have happened in the first place.

There are bonuses to using Joomla which outweight Drupal in a very strong way. The most important one is how the client will actually be editing content. Drupal doesn't come with a WYSIWYG editor, and it is not integrated in anyway with the CMS itself. Joomla does come with TinyMCE standard and image inserting tools (mambots). Joomla is more for actually putting the content in.

Plone is far superior in this, but Plone developers are expensive, rare and hosting is the same (although perhaps not that expensive?)

Sometimes (most times) more time is spent actually training a client on the inadequacies if inserting content into Drupal rather than teaching them about how to tweak the look and feel of the site. You need a handful of modules added on just give the basic functionality of editing content. Drupal houses have this as part of their workflow, but why should it be? I know there are some heated debates on the forums on it anyway.

The chances of a client who uses a Joomla solution, which is albiet, wanting a vertical brochure website, will pay for updates when exactly? They will only pay for updates when someone tells them it's insecure or perhaps they get hacked. The chances of this actually happening in the 4 years I've been developing websites for customers in both solutions is exactly: 0... they're all still running too.

At the end of the day, think of the client and your costs. Drupal isn't a paradise for designers or developers (but you can argue this), nor is it a paradise for the client. Joomla is better for the client because it's completely logical, and piss easy to include a Pakt book on managing content in your fees for the job. Sure there might be some core hacks, but the job is finished quickly and the client is happy (and you will get recommendations because they actually ENJOY managing their website).