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Can anyone give me some insight into CMS migrations from Typo to Joomla? I have a fairly large Typo site that needs to be updated and put into Joomla on a new host. I'm most concerned about the database side. Both sites use MySQL but at some point I'm going to have to do a data migration between the two and I have no idea if there are major pitfalls along the way. Has anyone done this before?
Having looked around on Google, I couldn't find anything about migrating from Typo to Joomla. I assume the migration would be far too complex as they are completely different system and Typo isn't as popular as the likes of wordpress. To be honest, you might want to consider starting the Joomla site from scratch.
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I'm not sure what extensions you are currently using on your site, but I'm sure the Joomla Extensions Directory will provide you with most things that suit your needs.
As for template, I'm not sure if you want to use commercial or non-commercial ones, so I'll provide a bit of both.
Commercial:
Yootheme and Rockettheme have always been my first choices when it comes to templates, due to reliability, style and mobile compatibility.
Non-commercial:
Yootheme's Master Theme is completely free which is based on their Warp framework. It's a fairly basic template but with some modifications, it can be made to look better. Shape5 provide 3 free templates, Vertex being my favourite. Joomlart have 2 free templates. Finally, JoomForest provide 2 free templates, JF-Corporate being my favourite as it also comes with a template for the Kunena Forum and JomSocial, which good and free ones are hard to come across.
I know this didn't answer your questions but I would definitely recommend starting from scratch as it will most likely save you the hassle.
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I'm looking for a new CMS to host my new blog and I was deciding what the best route would be, either using MySQL or a file-based CMS.
I'll probably be writing on the blog every other day so I'm looking for speed.
Does anybody know which one would be better for speed / security?
Thanks!
I'd highly recommend one of the popular ones such as Joomla, Wordpress, or Drupal (why re-invent the wheel?). They're heavily supported by the community, so the standard concerns like security and such are usually found and fixed before you're even aware they existed. My personal favorite is Joomla because of the extensive collection of extensions that are available, with a great many of them focused on social media such as twitter and facebook to "spread the word" from what you're putting on your site.
For security, I see storing content in a database as being more secure, as database access requires one more level of authentication than simply storing content in a file.
If a user pokes around your system and finds your include folder, then all content could potentially be exposed by guessing the paths. Since the database is usually abstracted away from your front-end application, accessing its content by simply guessing url paths is much harder to do.
In addition, your application will probably only expose certain fields from your database to the front-end, (assuming your database access functions are properly written to prevent things like SQL injection etc).
Unless you expect seriously high volumes of traffic on your site, you probably won't notice much of a difference between reading from a file vs. reading from a database.
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I have seen many opensource project on github, sourceforge etc.
Went through the code on many big projects.
I have never seen ANY design diagrams, from simple class diagrams to sequence diagrams.
Also, many projects (not all) don't actually have any comments on their code.
How is this even possible? No design and some comments only.
This depends on the project at hand; design diagrams could be found in the source tree, or on the project's website, or any number of places. There may not even be design diagrams at all -- they're not strictly necessary for software development.
The reality is that most industry strength software is written without design diagrams, class diagrams and/or other UML style documentation.
Why? Because most experienced developers (including me) do not see enough value/cost benefits from doing it.
Developers are relatively quick to adapt tools that are practical and helpful (test tools, source control, code analyzers, profilers etc.) so it is not a question of developers being "old dogs" and/or not wanting to improve the tools they use. If design diagrams etc. actually helped speed up development and/or improved product quality then it would be used a lot more than it is. However it doesn't so it isn't. And this is despite 30+ years of "guru" after "guru" trying to push yet another box/sphere/line tool down developers throat :-)
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I browsed some of their sites. They always point to bug list as start of participating project.But, as a newbie in that project? How can I fix bug at the beginning?
Can anybody give me some suggestions about this?
Issac Truett's answer is good.
My only suggestion would be to pick a project and download their source code. Most open source projects use CVS, Subversion, or Git to manage the source code.
Pick an integrated development environment (IDE) that supports the language of the project and attach the IDE to their source code manager.
Spend some time getting familiar with the source code, and the bug list will make more sense.
Almost every Open Source project I've ever seen has a stack of minor issues in the corner - cosmetic or otherwise largely inconsequential things that nobody has considered worth their time. If you just want to get your foot in the door, that's probably a good way to introduce yourself. Just find something easy, make sure you implement it well, and follow the project's rules on coding style, submission for review, etc.
Or, ask the project. "I'm new, I want to help, this is my skill set. Would someone be willing to mentor me?"
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I always have found the open source space interesting but have never actually participated in any projects. I recently had what I thought was a great a idea that was different from other projects I had seen in the area (in case it matters it was a .NET DI framework).
My question is if I have a funky idea should I join an existing project and share my ideas or create a competing project with exactly what I want. There are a few projects in the space the are similar to what I was thinking but they don't quite capture the same ideals.
Is extra competition frown upon in the open source space?
Competition is as important as collaboration in open source. Assuming the licenses are compatible, features and ideas can be cross-pollenating. Everybody wins.
the short answer to this is another question: do you want to contribute to a discussion, or do things your way?
You may want to consider writing it your own way and turning that process into an article that you could submit to CodeProject. Then if there seems to be interest in the article, add it to SourceForge. I've seen a lot of tools and widgets get a quick audience and coding help that way. One that I use often is XPTable, which started as a CodeProject article and eventually became an open source project on SourceForge.
BTW, you'll know if its a hit, because you'll start to get lots of requests for improvement, or people even submitting their own fixes and enhancements to your article.
Thank you for your time. I have decided to contribute directly for the project in some areas they were hurting. By doing so I can help the project and learn from the masters.
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What open source projects would you recommend as a good place for a starting open source developer? Factors that I think would be important are some obvious ones like well written code and a community that is helpful to newbies. But it might be nice if the code base is such that I can start hacking some small problems without really understanding the details of how everything works.
I'd prefer something that can be developed on Linux using C/C++/Java/Python/Scala.
Trying to pick a project like that will never work because it's not something you're passionate about. What's an open source project that you use daily or enjoy using? Go work with that one.
It really depends on what your interests are as to what project to dive into.
Rationale for a larger project (e.g. Firefox, OpenOffice, etc) is that it has many developers, a well established code base, and many small tasks/bugs to be worked out.
Rationale for a smaller project is that you will become more intimate with the code and application. You will likely get to know other developers on the team and understand the overall concept better. Additionally, your additions to the project may be more noticeable.
sourceforge has a list of projects seeking a new developer. Therer are several for your requested programming languages:
http://sourceforge.net/people/?category_id=1
Apart from developers they have more help requests:
http://sourceforge.net/people/
Pick one you use and like already.