I'm about to undertake the buildout of 3 Joomla backed sites, and 1 of them will involve quite a bit of custom module development. I'm looking for experienced Joomla hackers to fill a variety of roles from Senior Developer to Project Manager, or even just to drink some beers with me and review my approach and muse about silver bullets that Joomla might have in store for me.
Please feel free to contact me off list if you are looking for Joomla or PHP work, or just want to kick the tires on what we're building. I'd love to kick off a thread of 'Joomla gotchas' from our collective experiences using Joomla. I'll start: Joomla isn't great with REALLY big numbers of pages and/or categories. Things to look out for: I was using Joomla 1.0.11 a while back with OpenSEF. I had a pile of issues with my site and the time it took for page loads with 20,000+ pages in my site. I tracked it down to a faulty design in how the OpenSEF stuff was loading , caching (or failing to), and rewriting site friendly urls in my pages. I posted some bug fixes on the OpenSEF site and I think the problem as been resolved. What didn't get resolved, and I'm anxious to check out the 1.5 stuff to see if it has, is that when you are on the admin side of things, lots of categories means HUGE drop down lists. One of my sites had 30K plus categories, and it rendered the admin inoperable as it was trying to load a category select list of 30K items on a bunch of the admin pages. One thing that helped my pages load MUCH faster was enabling query caching. With Joomla, sometimes with all your plugins, and 3rd party modules, you are using 'sub-optimal' code, and sometimes queries get run repeatedly on a page, or across a session. With most sites, where content isn't really changing that much, turning on query caching in MySQL helped a bunch in speeding up page load times, especially with very large numbers of pages and categories. Thanks for any advice you may have, Art Art Shectman President Elephant Ventures Strategic Digital Marketing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.elephantventures.com Try groundwaveT, our World Class Email Delivery Service today! http://groundwave.elephantventures.com Need SEO help? Try optim-eyesT our Search Engine Optimization Service http://optimeyes.elephantventures.com _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
