Once I decided to move on to Joomla CMS, things started to be bleak. I couldn't find documentation, there were a few annoying bugs, etc.
In the end, though, I got the hang of it. I like it still much better than Typo3, CPGNuke, and all the other CMS systems I have used in the past. Mambo is fast, configurable, and extensible - and once you know how to use it, you start appreciating it real fast!
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Jan
29
2008
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
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I just tried out my old component (written some time in 2005, amazingly): com_weight. It's a weight table written as a component for Joomla, as the PHP version of my programming test in different languages.
It all started with me trying to lose weight in preparation of going to the military, where I knew I was going to be subjected to a strict regime of workout. So I wrote something that kept track of how I was doing, since I really don't care about my weight otherwise.
The first incarnation was in Tcl/Tk. It was a standalone application/script, and it did its job pretty well. To this day, of all the versions it's the one that has the best UI. Later on I wanted a web-ready version and rewrote the script in Perl. At that point, I started realizing that the weight table had great potential as a test of a language and my skills in it, so I rewrote it in Java (ugly as sin) and then as Joomla component.
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Jan
11
2008
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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Once in a while, I am somewhere where even my Verizon USB dongle can't help me get connected: in n airplane, in a remote location, in a nuclear bunker... In those cases, I would love to be able to work on my site, but how do I do that?
Enters Blogg-X, a nifty little Java app that allows you to edit content locally, and then synchronize it globally to a Joomla site. It even allows you to synchronize to multiple sites (or at least it allows you to write for multiple sites). See: that's what open source is all about! Problem solved!
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Sep
22
2006
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Friday, 22 September 2006 |
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I just realized I had never published my zOOm searchbot!
As you probably know, a searchbot (search plugin in Joomla) is a piece of software that, given a search term, returns a list of pieces of HTML that correspond to search results. Of course I wanted my zOOm search results to show up whenever someone searches on my site, so I just wrote a bot to accomplish that.
To download, please click on Downloads to the left!
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Sep
20
2006
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006 |
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So, I realized after the upgrade to Joomla 1.0.11 that just *MAYBE* my version 2.1 of zOOm was a *TAD* outdated and upgraded to slick new 2.5.1. Great job, guys!
I made everything work, imported my data into the new zOOm, and everything worked just fine - except for my favorite mambot, the trusted moszoomimglink, that delivers those saucy thumbnails that you have gotten used to in my posts.
Well, I went to work on the problem, quickly found out that the only issue was the invocation of the correct set of include files (which I found quite astonishing), and there we were.
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Sep
20
2006
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006 |
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Well, it was easier than expected to port moszoomimglink to the new release of zOOm! All you have to do is install the new mambot after disabling the old one... Well, ok, not that easy, I haven't had a chance to repackage it yet.
To make your life bearable, though, I can tell you all that needs to be changed is the initiation sequence. In the file moszoomimglink.php, there is a long list of statements like the following:
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