cranky book review
Like most web developers, I have a large collection of books various programming languages, frameworks, databases, etc. Well one area I wanted to read about was Joomla!, the popular CMS tool used by lots and lots of folks. I’m developing my own CMS tool (and yes, that is Abbe in the background picture), ergo – know thy enemy. So I borrowed my buddy Bill’s copy of Professional Joomla! Well, I don’t know if it’s an inside joke, but do Wrox releases try to make their authors look like escaped mental patients/the local neighborhood huffer/guy driving the primered out rapist van with no windows?
Now the real problem with Professional Joomla! …Here’s me pinching the one useful chapter on creating a custom template in the book…
Yeah, that’s it. The remainder of the book the author discusses design patterns, SEO strategy (most of which has nothing to actually do with Joomla!), other already developed extensions for Joomla! … Wait, why the hell does Joomla have an exclamation point? Fuck you guys, from now on, you’re Joomla.
August 30th, 2009 at 11:37 am
I used to use Joomla. Thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Then I tried to modify it. I left Joomla and stopped developing for it. They even removed all of my modules on extensions.joomla.org. Those bastards.
August 30th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
or maybe it you could go so far as to refer to them as ‘Joomla?’
August 30th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Tired. Headache. Cranky. Chocolate. NOW.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:24 am
Like your pal would ever notice if you ripped out those FEW pages and then returned the book?
August 31st, 2009 at 6:40 am
ok, catching up on pasts posts here. congrats to abbe on her commissioned dress. i have no idea what this post meant excpet that the book is overwhelmingly irrelevant and THAT woudl drive me nuts too.
oh and those pornographic candy wrappers. well, what can i say? we limes can get out of control under certqain circumstances.