Joomla

The last upgrade for Joomla was the move from 1.0 to 1.5 over 3 years ago and yet we still see many, many Joomla sites running Joomla 1.0.

Why is it that - after people have bust their ass to produce a shiny new version of our product - users are so slow to upgrade?

What can be done to ensure that the same doesn't happen with the release of Joomla 1.6?

What can we do to ensure that we aren't supporting three different and incompatible releases of Joomla! on our client's web sites?

How can we ensure that all users will see the benefits of all the hard work?

We are used to communication being secure

If we phone with our mobiles, we assume that only the people we dialled can hear us.

When transferring money we provide information via the bank's web page and we trust that nobody else can use that information to withdraw money from our accounts.

Read more: There is no I in Joomla!

Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks you will know that J&Beyond took place last week in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Over the last 10 years I have attended countless Mambo, Joomla, Linux and other open source events and I'm convinced that this was the best of the lot.

It's hard to say exactly what it was that made this event the best.

The world according to Joomla!