The development team that I lead is standardizing on Zend Framework (http://www.framework.zend.com) as a development platform. This category of posts will be dealing with the issues that we are running into, and how we are solving them, to help alleviate other people’s pain. We have reviewed a number of platforms, but essentially narrowed it down to […]
Joomla Nested Category Issues – Round 2 – Multiple Sections in Blog Layout
Well the problem still stands, my client has 3 levels of content and Joomla 1.5 only supports 2. We have gone through most of the solutions: Joomla 1.6 – totally unusable given the time and technical constraints, Content Construction Kits (CCKs) like JSebold (http://www.jseblod-cck.com/) bring on more complexity than the CMS itself Move to WordPress […]
Joomla 1.5 – Nested Category Issues
The things clients make you go through … We have been working on a rush magazine job using Joomla (http://www.joomla.org) , and all was fine until the client brought out their “Mind Map” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) essentially a representation of the information architecture for their site. And like no other, they had 3 and 4 levels of […]
Joomla 1.6 Released
2011 seems to be heating up in the CMS space Along the heels of Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org/) which had worldwide release parties, and WordPress 3.1 coming soon (http://wordpress.org/), Joomla has released 1.6 on 01/10/11 with hushed tones. I hope that this means that we get reduced hacking attempts and better performance for plugins and modules. […]
Browser Wars 2010 – Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome
Almost 85% of the Internet population uses the top 3 browsers which are as different as they are similar. I do love and hate each of them in their own ways. Internet Explorer Has improved since IE 6 which as a web designer is the worst thing that happened to the Internet IE 8 I like, its […]
Intuit Websites using Sitebuilder by Homestead – Proxy Servers
If you are developing or updating a site hosted by Intuit Websites (http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/) you need to be careful when publishing behind a proxy. It seems that the software does not connect to the servers if its behind a proxy, so you need to disable the proxy or find a connection which does not use one […]
Google Need for “Page” Speed – The Web Developer’s Arsenal
Google the king of search has made the speed of websites and page loading a key actor in ranking. This coupled with the need to use 3rd party frameworks for front end development, like JQuery, MooTools, Scriptalicious, Yahoo YUI, to support the multitiude of browsers has a larger burden web developers. In true fashion however, […]
Virtual Machine – the New Way for Server Hardware?
On a client project, a new server has been provisioned 400GB HDD, 32GB RAM, Intel Xeon 5660 processor, CentOS 5 all in a virtual machine. The virtualization is transparent to us, so we can configure, restart it, back it up without any issues. Now we can test out running a MySQL database with all its […]
Internet Explorer – A Link is not a Link
Someone said that the browser wars are over, well I am not sure of that, they will only be over when Internet Explorer from the great and mighty Microsoft (M$FT) as its called by open source advocates starts following standards and its own rules all the time. Having an HTML anchor tag () without an […]
OpenCMS Woes – Three Pipe Problem Solving Technique
Well it seems like my woes with OpenCMS migration seem to be over, but the issue is so strange only experience can enlighten one. This still re-inforces my thoughts that Java based applications are huge, complex and diffcult to work with. My expectations for a migration are as follows: a) Copy application files from one […]