Paul Delbar
In spite of what the image would lead to believe, Paul's a relatively sane person and the owner of delius.be, a Joomla site/application developer in Belgium. Don't mention design patterns, CCK, frameworks to him unless you want to spend an hour or two. A Belgian (of course) beer will buy you a short history of one|content or why Joomla's so great. And if you ahppen to have seen that little girl that got lost at the Dutch Joomladays last year, let him know.
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one|content : Joomla on steroids
Since the introduction of the 1.5 architecture, Joomla has attracted a different class of extension builders : people with a serious dose of software engineering experience have taken to the framework and have built more powerful extensions, often integrating with Joomla at an intimate plugin-level and extending its functionality in ways noone had dreamed of.
Over the last years, we've been building our own extension to Joomla to use structured content - stuff which does not like being flattened into articles, but which is too complex and cumbersome to create custom code for (been there, did that, which is why we went looking for a new solution). What is structured content ? Think about
- projects in countries to cover working domains and executed by organisations
- classes on certain products in a location and given by oner or more teachers
- products in product families with different part numbers depending on color etc., linked to designers and stores where you van buy them.
Just a few examples, which you may have encountered in a requirements document. Actually, in our view, everything is structured content, which is why we called out baby one|content - everything is content, content is everything.
This talk will cover the functional scope of one|content - from metadata definition, to data integration, to creating structured views, to extending the framework with business logic, search filters, ... and answer questions like
- why we built it the way we did
- why we did not use K2, Nooku framework (yet), ...
Building complex sites with Joomla
Focusing on Joomla is fun - features, extensions, templates, neat tricks, ... but the real deal is building sites for customers. This talk concentrates on how customers look at the stuff you are building - what they are looking for, what they like and dislike, how to go about explaining Joomla's way to structure content.
We will present a number of complex sites : lots of structured content, integrating with external databases, loading existing data into a site, migrating older CMS to Joomla. Each example will provide insight in an important part of building complex sites, from requirements management to a clean, phased project approach, and cover the approaches that can really make a difference between your Jooomla site and your competitor's feeble attempt at throiwing code at the problem.
If you want to learn about
- using structured content next to Joomla content
- integrating your site with a CRM or an email marketing system
- how to import existing CMS data into the Joomla database
- making your customer come back for more, and more, and more ...
this presentation is right for you !
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