Compass Designs

Over at Copyblogger, Sonia Simone made a recent post about Getting Naked. No, it wasn't a college party, but rather the concept of being honest, sometimes painfully so in your blog. Current wisdom among bloggers is that this is a good standard to follow, you'll see popular bloggers ranging from Dooce, SEOMoz and even Joomla's Alledia sharing things that traditionally would be thought of as perhaps private. In each case, the sharing has been well received, and all importantly, worthy of traffic.

Last week, the Joomla Extensions Team made a welcome change in how they are asking third party developers to post their extensions to extensions.joomla.org.

Previously, you could search for extensions that work with 1.5, but the results would include many (if not most) that only worked in legacy mode.

Well, that's been solved. 

You may have visited one of the other popular blogs about Joomla at alledia.com. It's written by a fellow Brit living in the US, Steve Burge (he is going to be a fellow instructor at the upcoming Joomla University in Chicago). He recently wrote a post phpBB3 Integration Can Be The Joomla 1.5 Killer App. As we often seem to do, he scooped me on a post I had started to write about the exact same topic, thinking about what Joomla 1.5's Killer "must have" application might be.

I think I might offer some different answers than his thoughts about forums though.

So here we are on day 1 of going live. Now to start putting my master plan into action on how to migrate all my old links.