Macrotone Blogs

Macrotone blogs upon Joomla, our products and other matters.
Font size: +
2 minutes reading time (309 words)

Reflections on Joomla

b2ap3 icon joomlaI looked at an installation of Joomla 1.5 the other day and was struck by how much has changed and how far the current version has progressed over the years.

The obvious differences in the platform using an MVC structure were obvious but also changes in how plugins, modules and components are installed, exception handling, library changes etc. all combined to make it almost a different product altogether despite the outward appearance.

Having been developing extensions concentrated on Joomla 1.6 and above, it was easy to see how far the Joomla product has evolved.  Whether it is all good is perhaps more subjective. There was a simplicity in the early releases that has in many/some ways been lost as the product has changed. If one takes the ‘blogging’ aspect of the platform, I suppose this is why new products such as 'Ghost’ (to name just one) continue to appear, all boasting of the ‘ease’ of use. These immediately bring to mind the similar claims of Wordpress, Pressword etc.  Perhaps it also goes some way to explain the desire to implement things such as Wordpress ‘under’ Joomla, an admirable step well executed by WP4J or CorePHP all of which strive to bring the perceived ‘simplicity’ and ‘ease of use’ back to Joomla. Whether this is achieved or whether it creates more ‘complexity’ is open to doubt and interpretation.

This is not to say that there is anything at all wrong with the current Joomla onward design, which is after all the way of all things, which continue to develop, just that there is a ‘beauty’ in simplicity, which can often be lost if one is not careful.  Change is not a ‘bad’ thing and should be accepted and welcomed but at the same time one should question  whether it is ‘just change for changes sake’ which is another thing altogether.

×
Stay Informed

When you subscribe to the blog, we will send you an e-mail when there are new updates on the site so you wouldn't miss them.

Joomla 2.5 Language overrides
SQL Injection Attacks
 
Go To Top

Joomla! Debug Console

Session

Profile Information

Memory Usage

Database Queries