[ale] Slightly OT Joomla

[John C]

I use Joomla also and am VERY happy with it.  It's all written in PHP, so
it's easy to write your own modules if you like (in PHP).  Since Joomla is
so popular, there are tons of plugins for it that will do just about
anything you want.

Let me know if you have any questions on using it.  I'll be glad to help.

On 9/10/07, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Ashley Wilson wrote:
> > PHP is generally
> > easier to work with, but java is more powerful and a much more lucrative
> > skill to have.
>
> I create and use PHP, .jsp and compiled java. If you are just beginning in
> the web world, PHP is usually (not always) much easier to work with, and
> is supported by most *nix based web hosters "out of the box". It's
> productive, useful and widely supported. It's not inherently elegent
> or even necessarily a good programming language. It's a great tool.
>
> Java is incredibly powerful, and unless you have some experience or
> training in real programming and OOP, as cryptic and obtuse as it gets
> in common use.
>
> As for "lucrative".. Sigh.. unfortunately. Not for good reasons.
> CIO/CTO's got on the Java bandwagon, often for good reasons
> initially, but found it just as expensive and hard to support as
> .NET and other obtuse and bloated web programming environments.
> So, once an expensive commitement has been made, they throw money
> at it to keep it going. Java will, however, do things that few other
> web enabled languages will do. You don't need that power for a blog site.
>
> Joomla's a good place to start, but you may also find it just as easy to
> create your own CMS (Content Management System) or templating system
> as figuring it out.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...