Re: SXSW In A Nutshell: Homeless People As Hotspots

toman — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:00:25 -0000

Technical questions come to mind: How is the backhaul achieved? If it's a mesh network, how are the profits divided? Any turf wars for profitable coverage areas yet? These people are very vulnerable to street crime, any concerns about using a hotspot that might be comprimised by
identity thieves?

Re: 5 reasons you should use joomla instead of wordpress

toman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:27:06 -0000

Hmm..., I had to hunt around to find it, but you're right. Did it appear in 1.5 ? I tried it in Safari and in Opera and couldn't get the "Browse" button to work, but I'll assume it works in Firefox and or IE .

Re: 5 reasons you should use joomla instead of wordpress

toman — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:39:36 -0000

I had this discussion with my business partner the other day. She's a Wordpress junkie, I have more experience with Joomla. They both have MySQL and a filesystem for storing media files, so you really can't say one is more of a CMS than the other. Wordpress is written well enough that while it was designed to be a blogging platform it has successfully morphed into a CMS-ish application. I think which one to choose depends on who you are creating the site for. A site you yourself will run could be written in either. If it's for a customer, then the real criteria is in the usability of the backend, and I'm afraid Wordpress wins it there. If the average user can't navigate their site and maintain it, then it's of limited or no value to them. Joomla is a little clunky as far as adding media files, while Wordpress let's you upload them as you write your content, which is when most people remember to do it. Friendly URLs are available in both, but are much less painful in Wordpress. It's tagging system is a lot more flexible than Joomla's rigid section/category hierarchy. Joomla's plugin system is better, at least from a user's point of view. Average users are not comfortable unzipping archives in Wordpress' plugins directory. How many average users will be adding plugins/components is a debatable question. The commenter who mentioned using multiple templates being easier in Joomla is correct, and you can add multiple sites on one install in the Joomla column as well. Still, I think usability for an average site owner is the most important criteria, so I would say that if you can get away with using Wordpress then you should. If you need a slightly beefier site then probably go with Joomla. If you need something more custom than that, build it in a web framework like Django or Rails.

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