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Why do you get disappointed when a programmer hates Joomla...
that is exactly the point. Downloading and installing Joomla
does not make you a programmer or rather developer. IT SIMPLY
MAKES YOU A USER. There is nothing to be ashamed of calling
yourself a Joomla User, No! Really I mean it.
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The market is flooded with so called "Developers" oops I mean
users who then go around claiming to have developed the website
yet you did Jack!!!! Must admit, it makes your portfolio look
good. Unfortunately thats where it ends. Installing a CMS and
throwing in a logo and fancy colors and txt full of typos is not
development.
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Peronally I ran five blogs, one on blogger, one is a custom
solution and three are on WordPress. I am pretty good in using
WordPress for example, tweaking themes adding plugins etc. BUT
IN NO WAY DO I CLAIM TO BE A WORDPRESS DEVELOPER. And so do
millions of bloggers out there who have managed to set up their
own blogs including the stay at home mom next door. So why do
Joomla users call themselves developers and use the excuse of
not reinventing the wheel? It beats me.
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I thank God Google has decided to reinvent the wheel with
Google+, I thank God for people like Mark Zucks who decided to
reinvent the social wheel, I thank Apple who decided to reinvent
the gadget wheel with iphone, ipad imac etc. I thank Google
again who decided to reinvent the search engine wheel, I thank
safaricom (feel free to rant) who decided to reinvent the money
transfer wheel. Without reinventing the wheel we would be stuck
in the eighties.
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Lets see those who refuse to reinvent the wheel... Nokia??? At
least they've woken up. Blackberry dudes, Microsoft... i think
you get the point.
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Its the same ways computer technicians abuse the word
Engineer... A TECHNICIAN IS NOT AN ENGINEER. Its an insult to
real Engineers. And that is where the first problem lies with
Joomla.
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For a real developer Joomla can save you hours of real coding.
But the developer sacrifices scalability and a whole lot of
stuff I dont want to get into here. Joomla cannot scale to the
level of Facebook, google, twitter <name millions of other
speciality sites here>. You need a custom setup to do that.
Thats the whole point. For some of the stuff I have had to do,
Joomla just does not cut it.
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Why I hate Joomla. It does not promote INNOVATION neither does
it promote the growth of the developer... oops I mean user
unless you are focused on building mods then thats another
story. On this list there is a lot of talk on innovation and
being Africa's number one yet the people with potential to make
this happen continue to close themselves in the Joomla box.
Simple test... How many developers in Kenya have built Joomla
modules? You be the judge and get my point. Developers have
become so comfortable using Joomla that it has cripled the
personal growth of the individual.
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Joomla has generated too much hype that it cant live up to.
Being a popular CMS does not mean it is good. Just the way PHP
may be so popular but has many internal design issues and is
relatively slow... Try writing a CPU intensive app woth PHP and
you'll know what I mean. By the way despite that, I still like
PHP :)
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Joomla has its place and unfortunately that place is not in my
heart.
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I think al pause on this for now.
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----- "Kago Kagichiri"
<thekenyanprince@gmail.com> wrote:
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The basic point is that Joomla is used by
alot of people who don't know how to create components or
modules or even edit the CSSes for them to at least match the
rest of the site.
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> I get very disappointed to hear a programmer hates Joomla
when it's one of the projects that has stayed free and has a
million and one extensions that you can open up in your IDE
and modify to your tastes.
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> However, I do agree, if you don't know how to customize
your Joomla then stay away to avoid pissing off any Skunkers.
In the end these guys get paid good money for total
@#$%^$#$.... and we are left complaining about it without
further action.>
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> K. K.
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