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Vancouver Joomla! Public Bug Squashing event – part 2

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Joomla! CMSIt is 4:00 PM and we have squashed one bug so far. A bit time consuming, but it was a high priority bug. Yes the darn thing was so big that we almost tripped over squashing it! There are still 28 people on the IRC. The event has been a success and so much fun so far.

First Joomla Bug Fixing event in Vancouver

In the far end you see Ash from (www.PeerGlobe.com) combing through the code. Ash is originally a Ruby on Rails developer, but recently has been interested in Joomla! CMS framework. Ash is a brilliant developer and so passionate about software architecture. He is also the man behind the ClassTalk Facebook Application. In fact that is were we met for the first time. Ash did this wonderful presentation at the Facebook Applications Developer’s Garage.

December 2007 Joomla Public Bug Fixing day

You can see me on the live stream here

That’s me on the top-left corner. On the bottom right you see Johan Janssens; he is the Joomla! CMS lead developer. The other folks in the picture are the team in the San Francisco California working with us.

Joomla! Public Bug Fixing event in Vancouver

People were so nice. They would drop by to say hello, the whole idea that Joomla! community members in 5 locations around the globe were collaborating to debug a top-notch content management system such as was so inspiring to them. We’ve had two Microsoft employees talking to us, and a freshman Computer Science student too.

Joomla! Public Bug Fixing event in Vancouver

Gwyn has been working with us for the last few hours. He had heard about the Vancouver Joomla! PBF event and decided to join us. Gwyn is an Economics student at SFU. His website is: www.GoodBoog.com

I am already getting a sugar high! Perhaps next time we will be going to a different venue just for a change. This one was really a warm up and the results in all 5 groups were quite impressive.

[tags]rastin mehr, rmdstudio, joomla, vancouver, pbf, public bug fixing, open source, collaboration, content management[/tags]

The economy of the early 21st century

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Christmas shopping season is approaching and online sales will be soaring in the same time. As we know it a lot of the purchases are done using credit cards, and specially when it gets to online sales, not all products are actually physical, and not all of those virtual products bring much value to the buyers.

I guess one of the characteristics of the early 21st century economy is the fact that many people spend money that doesn’t exist, on products that don’t exist, but they still have to work their behinds off to pay the bills with real work, or accumulate real debt!

I love Capitalism! :D

[tags]economy, commerce, ecommerce, Christmas, shopping, debt, credit card, consumerism, online sales [/tags]

Community Builder Anatomy – Part 2 – The User Manager

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User manager is the backbone of every community builder application and it is often combined with an Access Control List (ACL) to grant or deny access permissions to users who interact with the system. A user profile contains information about a user’s identity and possibly the history of activities. User Manager is also used for registering and authenticating the community members.

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