Let’s pop a Few Layers up the Protocol Stack to Joomla as a Web 2.0 CMS
July 21st, 2006 by Gordon Cook
A note to us edge based content creators. When one is trying to explain all this complicated stuff to our readers, imagine if there were an application that would take the text of a long article and run that text through Wiki-pedia turning all terms that were defined within wikpedia into html links!? According to David Hughes there is such, new, in beta. It is a Joomla app. Last Sunday David gave me a nearly four hour tutorial on how Joomla works. Simply awesome.
What’s Joomla?
David Hughes: “Am constantly surveying the CMS (Content Management System) landscapes as I press forward in my projects. Decided to give Mambo a whirl last September due to a bridge component that was of interest to me. Study showed Mambo may be a possible foundation for this bridge app. Slurped down the code, applied it, went back for some forum discussions only to find myself at the beginning of an insurrection.”
“A scant paragraph describing the gist of it. ”
“While I was dismayed at what appeared to be the occasional open source-application-team meltdown where good ideas fritter away due to the usual; myriad of reasons ascribed towards why these things sometimes do not work, I was also curious to see how this might trend. So I dialed in periodically to watch the carnage. To my pleasant surprise, the core development team took the source code football and instead of going home, went to another playing field. It was obvious Miro blew it from the beginning, but to the credit of the Mambo source code team, they re-orged, and I mean, did it REAL fast. In a little over two weeks, they’d reformed, had servers up, planned re-releases. They soon had a new name. This was if anything, quite entertaining to watch. So I did.”
“Fast forward to the spring, and it was apparent to me that the brains and leadership had migrated to the Joomla sidelines. Releases were coming steadily, improvements were being made. But what has become literally startling was to watch what I would say was a tipping point in development. By rights this whole thing should have turned to dust. Yet, there were many Components, Modules, and Bots coming out of the woodwork for not just Joomla, but which speaks volumes to me, were also backwards compatible into the Mambo framework. That is not easy to do no matter what application framework one is working in.”
Cook’s Edge - David Hughes is a very talented photographer with some very interesting ideas about putting art and photography on the Internet. He is not the “cursor cowboy” aka Dave Hughes. They are related. 