… but not by much, at the weekend I ploughed the meadows with my motorcycle after a bee got caught in my helmet and I proceeded straight where the street made a turn. However this is not among the reasons for a lack of updates in the last week.
The main reason is simply that I’m quite busy with paid work – good for me since it keeps the money rolling in, but I don’t have that much time for fun things.
Another reason is that this was supposed to be largely a site about Joomla programming and as of late I got a little disenchanted with Joomla. My labor of love for these past three years – the holocaust ressource site shoa.de – runs on Joomla, or rather most of the time it doesn’t run. Joomla causes an inexplicably high load on the server (which in turn regularly collapses), user login regularly fails and a structure that allows only for sections and categories has proven to be unsuitable for our purposes, we need subcategories. And don’t even get me started on the trouble the 3rd Party-Components give us. Pretty soon I will have to rebuild the site and this time I will use another software, which inevitably means that my focus will shift away from Joomla – shoa.de has, after all, been the main reason I got involved with Joomla in the first place.
However I will continue to support and (even though it doesn’t look like it at the moment) to develop the content item module, since it seems by now a lot of people depend on it. I generally don’t let people down if I can possibly avoid it.
Hi Caribou,
when I say “my focus will shift away from Joomla” that means that Joomla propably won’t be my main tool of trade anymore. It does not mean that I will stop to use Joomla or that I think Joomla is a bad system. Should I cease to develop the module (which I do not plan to do, I’m currently working on a more stable release for the 1.5 module) I will see to it that I find a new maintainer first.
– eike
Comment by Eike — October 2, 2007 @ October 2, 2007 7:08 pm
Hi Heike,
Your work with contentitem is excellent ! Thanks ! I use this module in many cases. (still another in construction and it is a pleasure !)
I’m disapointed about the news that you “will shift away joomla”…
That is your freedom of course.
For the joomla community and your precious work, I suggest you in this case to put your module code and documentation on the forge ? http://joomlacode.org
Then any developper could join your project and they would be able te replace you when you will quit joomla world…. : (
?
good luck !
Comment by caribou — October 2, 2007 @ October 2, 2007 6:56 pm
Hi Eike,
I’m glad to hear you’ve been lucky after all! I’m here to tell thank you for your content item module and thank you much more for your last sentence, it’s fine to know people with such values exist. Lastly I also fell in love with Joomla! but think it has a lot limitations especially at organizing contents but I didn’t find a valid Open Source alternative at the moment so I’ll be very interested in what will be your next pick, let me know and … have a nice day.
Nik
Comment by Nik — September 27, 2007 @ September 27, 2007 3:50 pm