Introductions
Please take a moment to introduce yourself to others. Where are you from? Family? When did you get involved with Joomla!? Do you use Joomla! professionally? If so, how? What area do you consider to be a strength? Where would you like to see your skills grow? Thanks for joining in!
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See the About this site group to learn more about the Joomla! Developers and Site Builders Network.
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Permalink Reply by Júlio Pontes on -
Hi,
I´m from Brazil, I get involved since 2005, I use Joomla! on my company for develop portals and sites for gov., companies, etc. I´m study every day more the code and Framework. I´m better to think on new things, necessities, components, etc. I wish try to help Joomla! Project with new Ideas and who knows join to the core team.
Casablanca Turismo (My first project)
MEC (Ministery of Education)
Tempo FM (Radio)
Caverna do roque (VM site)
PMF (Subsites + Jaclplus + Sharing content between sites)
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Permalink Reply by Hans Kuijpers on
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I'm from The Netherlands and using Joomla! since Mambo 4.x (2004) in search of a CMS replacing my own created CMS. I love using CSS and learned a lot from csszengarden.com Did lots of backstage labour for DutchMambers and DutchJoomla after that. This year I was invited to give a presentation about Template Overrides on #jd09nl As an employee of 2Value and Jira ICT I'm privileged to work with lots of open source developers. Not only Joomla!.
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Permalink Reply by Brett Hooker on
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Where are you from? Brisbane Australia
Family? Wife and three kids
When did you get involved with Joomla!? Joomla 1.0 from "the fork"
Do you use Joomla! professionally? Yes
If so, how? I run an integrated business website services firm. We've delivered over 500 business websites on Joomla over the last four years
What area do you consider to be a strength? Business uses of Joomla and business computing generally. I spent over 10 years in Oracle's business applications development division, so I've built some experience in integrating disparate systems into a cohesive suite of software.
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Bohn on -
Location: Columbus, Oh
Family: Married
Involvement: Since the beginning! A long, long time ago I was working in Mambo and came over with the split.
Professional Use: I use Joomla every day in my freelance work, and for my "real" job. I create websites for the State of Ohio legislative agencies. It's quite the niche job, but I love it.
Strengths: Planning things out.
Growth: Overall development. Just want to get out more and build more. Do plenty of custom jobs but most entail including webservices so maybe more things that are totally encapsulated in just Joomla!
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Permalink Reply by Dex Randall on -
Hey all.
Good idea Amy!
I am a Joomla nerd and general geek from wayback. I used to be a software designer/developer, now I just tweak other people's open source stuff - too busy to write my own. God I love open source. I build Joomla sites for a living and am in it up to my neck, running JUG Sydney and the Aussie Joomla community forum www.joomladay.org.au
Nice to have a place where we can all compare notes and share tips.
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Permalink Reply by Rob McBryde on -
Hey Folks!
My name is Rob McBryde, and I live in a small town just outside of Little Rock, AR. I've been married to my beautiful wife Ines McBryde (www.inesmcbryde.com) for nearly 5 years, and we just had our first child (Robert Nash McBryde). He is almost 4 weeks old...so yes I'm a bit sleep deprived at the moment. But life is good! :)
I started messing with web development in 2004 when the church where I worked at the time needed someone to take over the website. At the time, they were using a "church website company" who provided pretty crummy web solutions at expensive rates so I quickly found an alternative. Someone donated his design services to the church and worked with me on developing a beautiful website that was very polished and user-friendly. At the same time, I was reading books on HTML and Dreamweaver and experimenting with my own blogs and websites.
After a couple years of that a friend who was into graphic design said we should build sites professionally. In December 2006, IVM Communications was born. At that time it was really two businesses under one name...my wife's Spanish translation/interpretation/cultural competency training services and my web design services. Earlier this year, I split them into separate businesses, IVM Communications and IVM Web Solutions, for clarity of mission and marketing.
Back when I was a total newbie to web development, I tried to install Mambo and build our church website with it. I failed miserably at that attempt as I had NO IDEA what I was doing. I wasn't sure what a content management system was or what it was supposed to do, and I thought I could just install it and POOF! have a website built. After unsuccessfully struggling to get all the files FTP'd to our server, I gave up on the open source solution (temporarily).
I worked closely with a graphic designer for two years building custom sites with HTML, and then we added a PHP/CSS programmer to the mix giving us cleaner code than what I was doing. At the beginning of this year, the designer and the programmer went their separate ways and I was left to my own resources again doing everything. That's when I rediscovered the open source CMS...namely Joomla!
Joomla's strength? It allows someone who's not a designer nor a true developer (in the programming sense) to create beautiful and extremely powerful websites. Between the huge selection in the JED and amazing template designs available from Shape5, Rocket Theme, etc., I can do all the development myself and deliver a better product than I ever had before.
I've built about 10 or so sites this year with Joomla! and feel fairly competent with the system. I continue to learn the ins and outs of modules, components, and plugins (a tricky thing to do at first) as well as the menu structure. I'm thankful that I'm not left to do this alone. The Joomla! community is big and it's strong! There are so many wonderful people out there ready and willing to help you out when you have a question.
I look forward to learning more and more about Joomla! and can't wait for 1.6 to roll out!
Sincerely,
Rob McBryde
President | Web Developer
IVM Web Solutions
www.ivmwebsolutions.com
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Permalink Reply by Ric Raftis on
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Hey Amy... Thanks for the invite.
Ric here from Bendigo, Australia. I've been developing web sites since 1998 and kept a watchful eye on Joomla for quite a while. Waited for the big move until 1.5 came out providing much better layout with a heap less tables. I'm a former accountant who specialized in Business Advice and Consulting and bring this to my Joomla developments with small to medium size businesses not only in developing their sites, but looking at sites as passive salespeople.
I absolutely love Joomla, but more than that, the friends and connections I've made through the Joomla community. Through this site, I trust I will meet many more of you.
Chees,
Ric Raftis
Bushsong Web Design Bendigo
Bushsong Web Hosting Bendigo
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Permalink Reply by Rastin Mehr on -
Hello folks,
I am Rastin, former development work group member at the Joomla team, I am also known as one of the two co-founders and core developers of the Anahita Social Engine project www.Anahitapolis.com We are located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. We are actually a tribe of companies and have been working as a flat team of Software Architects and Designers for over 2 years doing commercial projects.
Currently our focus is developing Social Websites, iPhone Applications, and custom content management related projects using Joomla and the awesome Nooku Framework
I think Joomla, Nooku, and Anahita are one of the first technologies available today who have closed the gap between the web development and software development worlds. We certainly enjoy developing using those solutions.
:)
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Permalink Reply by Kyle Ledbetter on -
Hey all. Kyle from Austin, TX. We run www.JoomlaPraise.com which is named after our entry in the Joomla 1.5 template contest. Our club has become pretty diverse, as we're working on 3 fronts now: 1. Simple Joomla templates 2. Admin extensions & templates such as AdminPraise Lite 3. Projectfork, our Joomla project management framework. Since we work on all fronts from frontend design to programming for the admin site, I look forward to sharing and learning from everyone :)
Best,
-Kyle
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Permalink Reply by Stian Didriksen on -
I'm from Norway, which is a country, not the capitol of Sweden ;)
I'm not in any serious relationships atm, and since I'm only 19 years old, it's kinda as expected :D
I started with Joomla a little over 2 years ago, when 1.5 was still beta and was my first CMS. So my first site ran on 1.0.13.
It was fairly easy to learn how to use, and it didn't took me long before I tried out extensions like CB, FB and more. But as everyone know, usually Joomla templates + component templates != a good looking site.
So I started trying to customize them to fit my current YooTheme template, and it wasn't very hard to do as I had solid CSS and html knowledge since I was a kid. I've been learning that stuff since I could read, from my IT uncles. So the hard part was learning PHP, and why jQuery and Mootools hate each other so much.
5 Months later I ask @Ninjoomla (today NinjaForge) forums if they where interested in reselling some FB templates I had, as I noticed they already had CB templates and more. Instead I was declined, and offered a part time job instead on a regular basis :)
I use Joomla to build templates and extensions. I've stopped taking clients as I'm tired of breaking knees just to put food on the table. My strength is I'm good at design as well as code. I love doing both type of tasks, and it enables me to create applications that is fast as well as good looking interfaces. And learning, I'm a quick learner, that's always been my biggest strength.
In any area I can improve, I want improved. Which is all of them. PHP, how people use software, and how to make their workflows easier and simpler, more javascript, more mysql, more everything.
Cheers,
Stian
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Permalink Reply by Brent Friar on
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Where are you from? I'm from all over, lived in several states and a couple of countries. I called California home for over 21 years until I moved to the Charlotte, NC area nearly 5 years ago.
Family? beautiful wife and 3 daughters
When did you get involved with Joomla!? First tried my hand at Joomla right after the fork from Mambo.
Do you use Joomla! professionally? Yes
If so, how? We build online applications and websites based on Joomla.
What area do you consider to be a strength? Analyzing a clients needs then being able to put together a site/application that meets those needs.
Where would you like to see your skills grow? I want to continue to develop extensions and eventually release them to the Joomla community.
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Permalink Reply by George Law on -
I am originally from Upstate NY (Syracuse), USA, now living in the Greenville, SC area.
I have been doing the whole L.A.M.P. thing for over 12 years - Linux Sys Admin, MySQL DBA, Apache, Perl, PHP, etc...
I started using Joomla in the spring of 2007 when I choose it as the base CMS for a website I was hired to build. That site has come and gone, but I am still using Joomla for ongoing development. Generally, I get handed a sliced and diced xhtml/css template and build out from there.
I do use Joomla professionally. Some of the sites I have done most recently with Joomla - http://youngos.com, http://andersoncountymuseum.org, http://clemsonchamber.org ...
Strength - dunno - I guess the whole LAMP thing which gives me a general insight on how bad SQL queries and all bog down a server.
Growth : I am working on releasing my first plugin - a web scraper to allow HTML from outside sites to be included within your joomla content. Still a work in progress.
I look forward to chatting with you all.
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