About the community, yes, in facts, since the beginning of working on Joomla, I more often arrive on 'Stack Overflow' than 'Joomla.org' for my researches. Now, when I search something I often arrive on this forum.
It is really nice that Joomla has now a 'pure dev' forum with almost only developpers, that avoid the confusion with all the issues regarding others components (not homemade).
About the prefix, it cannot collisate because I am testing the vars before. (I work with multiples components easily, now)
Well I test only CkJController, but it is good enough for the moment.
An idea, I cound use 'My' prefix inslead of 'Ck'. > MyJController could be a nice name. Arggh I must change it now before to release. I should have asked before. Damned !!
For the fields it can be the same...
I know !! ... custom and 'My' by default... Let's see. I do not promise anything for the moment, but my new internal framework can do it easily because ... just amazing part.
I am so sorry for this night the server was down because you was too much. This is not a Cloud and the size of it is good for the moment. I must also treat this point to manage a higher charge. I just answered something already about JDom :
www.j-cook.pro/forum/14-news-a-chillout/...ssues-with-jdom#6772
And to finish this long post, just for you to know, here are the main points in this coming version :
I am very late about the day of the release, but lot of things has been added wich was not planned before.
Here is a non exhaustive list of what is going on in this new 2.5
- Loader (Easy to load from third part, and avoid collisions)
- Fork engine (You will be able the reinstall and keep your changes)
- Cross compatibility layer (1.6 - 1.7 - 2.5 - 3.0)
- Strict standards
- Cured and attentionated job (excellent coding)
- Ready for mobile phones and tabblets
- Optimization of JDom and component
- CPanel
- jQuery UI - Bootstrap - IcoMoon, ...
(For sure I am missing a lot I even do not remember myself ...)
Now I am finishing the rendering (and lot of details) The fields, the grids, the filters, etc... jQuery UI
.. and doing thousands of tests (the most boring part)
Let's buzz about it
... and patience, keep some energy for migrating. Actually, it is not the moment to custom and write inside your component, because you will need to copy your changes in the 'fork' directory.
I tell to everybody listening the line here :
-> Find all your changes in your components and comment them to be able to find them easily.
EDIT :
I cannot say any date for the release, beacause for me it is important to finish properly and you will have no regrets.
The only class I will not rewrite for the moment is class/images.php because now in 3.0 we have JImage that does an excellent job, and I want to use it.
But the images are soo long to test, and my class is working well for the moment.
When everything will be stable, I will implement JImages and add it in your component for cross compatibility (usable even in 1.6). As well, I will improve the class with nice functionalities. Let's talk about it later. Just to know, JImage will not be handled yet.