... and Wordpress is better than both.
Back in January of this year I made the first call for votes in the annual Linux Journal magazine Readers' Choice Awards.
The results are now in and in what looks like a pretty close race Joomla came second.
Release early - release often or release once when it is ready?
It is often quoted that an open source project, like Joomla, should release early and release often as this is the best method to find bugs and provide new features.
However I believe that is an overly simplistic approach and does not translate to real world use in all but the simplest, single use projects and definitely not for Joomla.
As soon as you have a piece of software that third parties extend and build upon you run into serious issues.
When you have been using a software application like joomla for as long as I have certain things become second nature.
But it is only when you see a newcomer struggle to work out what to do that you truly appreciate that there is room for improvement.
Don't Make Me Think - says Steve Krug
I had to smile today, and boy do I need something to smile about right now.
Linux.com, which is perhaps one of the biggest sites on the net, re-launched their site under new ownership and now powered by joomla.
All those years ago when we founded joomla I don't think we coud have thought of a web site that we woud have liked to see run joomla more than this one.
Of course I just had to dig a little further to have a look and see what extensions they are using.
Detractors of Free & Open Source (FLOSS) software often accuse it of being the home of the politicaly left wing.
That is certainly not something that could be send of The Adam Smith Institute.
The Adam Smith Institute was long a favorite of Maggie Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Party, "as the founder of free market economics".
In the last few weeks I have received numerous approaches from people who claim to have the next big thing.
With their idea they are going to storm the web and it will soon be the hottest thing, bigger than twitter, skype, youtube etc
So what do they want from me?
Even though I am known to many as Mr Gadget man I don't own an iphone. I've just never seen the point!
My windows based mobile has done everything I wanted it to do, and I already own an mp3 player and digital camera.
But today perhaps this has all changed. As someone who is regularly out on the road I rely on my portable joomla training suite to keep me intouch with the world and more importantly in control of my clients web sites.
Now Joomla! administration has finally found its way to the iPhone with J Admin Mobile (JAM!)(iTunes link). JAM! will allow you to manage many of the core Joomla! 1.5 features right from your iPhone!
I was recommended an extension for joomla this week via twitter, so naturaly I had a look. The link provided to me was to the Joomla extensions directory where I saw that the extension was both licenced under the GPL and non-commercial.
I read the description and the reviews and it sounded promising so I hopped over to the developers web site to download it for myself and have a play.
And that is when my blood started to boil (again).
