- ISBN13: 9780470133941
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Product Description
As a major force in the world of affordable, advanced web site deployment, Joomla! has become the most important noncommercial Content Management System (CMS) in the world. The number of Joomla! downloads and add-ons continues to grow at lightning pace, spurring the need for a resource that explores the diverse needs of professional Joomla! developers. This book fills that void by covering the two main areas of the Joomla! field–development and deployment–with a f… More >>
#1 by Daniel Aranzamendi on July 1, 2010 - 9:00 pm
Well, I have to say that this is a good book. I has very good examples and gives you more than you could ever find surfing the web, for hours, trying to find relevant info by yourself.
Most of all, it covers security issues that you don’t hear about very often. It takes you from the basics of installation, to advanced levels in terms of management and best practices, among other things. I can’t expect to have the author reinvent the wheel.
This book is not called “The unknown practices” nor ” The Secrets of Joomla”. You wont find Joomla “top secret information here”, but the author delivers what he promises and you can see the table of contents before you buy.
I bought it, I have been using Joomla for a year, I am a PHP coder and found it very useful. My sites are much better now because of this book.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Dale Vogel on July 1, 2010 - 11:10 pm
This book was written by a writer, not a Joomla developer. The goal was to fill enough pages to make a book. The book is positioned to help developers learn how to create a Joomla web site. It is nothing but filler.
For example, in Chapter 3 entitled, “Developing Custom Templates,” we encounter five pages on how to use Photoshop to create rounded corners on modules. Then in the same chapter you’ll find a section on how to create CSS for mobile devices, entitled, “Creating a Cell Phone – Centric CSS.” Pardon me, but what does that have to do with creating custom templates in Joomla?
Then you have a whole 14 page chapter on Design Patterns. The author treats each design pattern with one paragraph without any code, useless.
The book is all filler, a whole lot of nothing, and to make matters worse, there is not an understandable organization. This is a writer writing about a topic that he really doesn’t understand himself. Don’t waste your money.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by JimB on July 2, 2010 - 12:14 am
This book was disappointing. Rife with errors, typos, missing code constructs. Code doesn’t work as advertised, and when you figure out how to get it to work, you find that examples in the book could NOT have worked, because substantial pieces of code are missing, or whomever entered the code in typesetting wasn’t a coder and didn’t realize the commas didn’t belong in the middle of each of those lines of code.
This book has a lot of useless (majority) information for most of the people that would be interested. And then the information that is focused on what you want to learn… is too little, and often wrong.
Don’t waste your money.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by B. Gulino on July 2, 2010 - 12:38 am
Eight pages of the UN/EDIFACT abbreviations. This is stuff like CALINF means “Vessel call information”. Really needed in a book about Joomla Programming.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Thawk9455 on July 2, 2010 - 2:14 am
If you’re looking for something professional level this probably isn’t the book for you. I was hoping this book would help bring me up to speed as we are going to install a Joomla! environment at my job. However, this contains a large amount of filler (and then fails to adequately explain that), the code has a number of errors (the downloaded code hasn’t matched what’s in the book in a single instance so far), etc.
Don’t waste your time, buy a different book.
Rating: 1 / 5