Joomla on the iphone
I've been sitting on several half written blog posts for the last week never quite managing to finish any of them. Call it procrastination or just the inability to get back into the work habit after the extended holiday season. You can even call it laziness.
It's even been suggested "He won an award and then quit ...".
The truth is I've been lazy, had too much fun clearing the pathway of snow only for it to snow again a few hours later, and messing about on twitter. (More about that later this week - I promise)
My Predictions for Joomla in 2010
As the year ends rather than look backwards at what has happened in the past it's time to look forward to what will happen in the coming year.
I made such a hash of last years predictions that I hope this year I will do a lot better by stating the obvious instead of stating what I dreamed of whilst recovering from days of indulging myself on beer, food and cookies.
Here are my Top 10 Predictions for 2010 (in no particular order).
Radical Transparency
As we approach not only the end of the year but the end of a decade I spent a little time looking back at some articles I wrote back in 2007. Finding this one I was perhaps not surprised but definitely disappointed that it's as true today as it was then.
The article was not looked at with a critical eye or an open mind in 2007, perhaps it is different today as the same discussions are still taking place?
Joomla Community Xmas Carol
I've been trying to think of a light hearted and topical blog post for this time of year when I remembered a tweet requesting a Joomla Xmas Carol.
Below you will find "my" version of "The 12 Days of Christmas" and I've taken a few liberties with the numbers.
I'm sure you can do better either by offering an alternative line for this Carol or with your own Joomla Carol.
On the first day of Christmas,
my Joomla! gave to me
ACL in Joomla! 1.6 
Joomla Manual for Users
Documentation in any Open Source project is seen as the Holy Grail. It's great to have but somehow never quite fulfills the needs of the users.
Joomla has an excellent documentation resource but I think it is fair to categorise these docs as "reference" material and not "user guides".
There are some excellent books (reviewed elsewhere on this site) and some truly awful books (not reviewed here) but without exception they are targeted as the site builder or site programmer.
If you build sites for people or you have had a site built for you, you don't need or want a thousand page manual, you want a simple twenty page guide that tells you want you need to know and nothing more.
