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JoomlaBlogger - Is Joomla Evil?

Joomla has a large user base and it seem it is now getting attacked for it. People attack what they don't understand I guess? JoomlaBlogger  addresses some of the accusations..

...and elsewhere in the blog addressing the issue of choosing extensions. His off the cuff list goes:

* sh404SEF (SEO)
* CommunityBuilder
* JoomFish (multi-language)
* JCE (WYSIWYG editor)
* VirtueMart (shopping cart)
* Events Calendar
* SOBI2 (directory component)
* JoomlaXPlorer (FTP and File Manager)
* DocMan (document management)
* JoomlaPack (backup)
* K2 (CCK for Joomla)
* Xmap (sitemaps - both HTML and XML)
* JCal Pro (event calendar for Joomla)

 Another very good article elsewhere on Joomlablogger, a post about Scribefire and Joomla. Here I feel like he misses a few of the points:

• Scribefire is a great way to add content and also for posting to more that one site (you can post to many blogging systems too).
• As it actually retrieves post from Joomla (or another blog) so you can use it to move posts from one site to another.

and I feel like he missed out a few vital steps here.

• You need to enable a web services in your main site configuration panel
• I found I needed the MovableType XML-RPC Plugin at:
  http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/content-a-news/blog/3831
  and of course enable it!

I'm not sure why he mentions the native online editor for Joomla as using Scribefire is an entirely different idea. You write the post locally on your computer and just upload when you are finished. A boon for people still on slow connections.

Scribefire now also handles images by FTP and you can configure each account to upload to the relevant server and keep you images organised.

All the same lots of very useful stuff for Joomla buffs. more at: