Joomla Day

Joomla Day: Today my workmates and I headed to Darling Harbour for Joomla Day. (Joomla is a content management system for websites, and we’re using it on a project right now.) Unfortunately I didn’t get a lot out of it. The audience seemed to be pretty varied, from folks who’d never used it before to small business owners to power coders like us. In retrospect, there really wasn’t any way they could cater for all levels. For instance, we’d been really looking forward to the “Security and Performance” talk, but it turned out to be given by a non-coder whose only real advice was “keep everything updated.” Gee, thanks. (He also threw in a ten minute advertisement for the hosting company he runs, which was a bit weird.) And there were way too many audience questions about “SEO” and “link exchange” for my liking. (*shudder*) The only bit of the day that was really relevant or interesting for me were the two talks by Andrew Eddie, one of the Core developers, but even then he didn’t really cover anything I’d hadn’t figured out on my own. At one point in the afternoon, this teenage kid (who’d talked about his experience with GHOP) actually pulled out a guitar and warbled a song about how much he loved his Macbook. It was amusing and all, but really – is this what we paid $90 for? I feel like the business and marketing types probably got more out of it than the developers did. Oh well. It was a nice to not be in the office while I’m still so tired and sore… and I got a T-shirt out of it.