The Ramblings of a Fosgnilbmareht

I went to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall last night. It has Kristen Bell, one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood so I figured why not, especially considering the backdrop is Hawaii so there would probably be some decent amount of time of her in a bikini. And there was. And it was awesome! However, she was not the actor/actress in this movie showing the most skin. That award would go to Jason Segal. I think I saw more of him (all of him), then I did of Kristen Bell. It’s like someone saw him naked and thought, that would be a great movie idea. Let’s do it. Sometimes people, it’s not always the best idea to just go with something.

I’m not sure how much of the movie I can review without giving it away so I’ll just keep it short. Overall though, I thought the movie was decent. Maybe 3 out of 5 stars. Not bad, but not the best movie out there. If you like Kristen Bell or Mila Kunis, then you should definitely see this movie. I will give one blurb about Jonah Hill in this, I think he is getting pretty big billing for the movie but he is such a minor character that he could have been left out and the movie would have functioned better. Not his greatest performance. I thought the singer dude was better and way funnier.

I’m probably going to get a lot of something for posting this but I feel I need to rant. Joomla is way over hyped. Yeah sure it can build skyscrapers, bring about world peace and end world wide hunger but it seems to struggle with it’s primary job, Content Management.

My major gripe with Joomla (if you have a solution for any of these that doesn’t require an advanced degree in biophysics, please let me know):

• User access levels - Yeah there are the default levels of Editor, publisher and so forth, but what about being able to customize per user or setting up custom groups. phpBB and Drupal have this. I want to be able to have the the option of creating custom templates for different user groups. I would also like to limit the content different users/groups can see. Joomla is a Content Management System and I see access levels as part of content management.
• Forms - I haven’t seen a default option for easily creating and managing forms. Yeah there are plugins but why not by default?
• Menus - Creating menu items is somewhat easy but the choices are daunting. I think maybe better documentation in terms of the tooltips. Some of the options need to be cleaned up and simplified also. Why are there multiple levels for wrapper when there is only one choice? And I hate how menus aren’t really the pages or the content but rather a sort of holder for the content. It’s confusing at times and frustrating at others.
• Why are there 5 million files for the install? I understand it makes things easier separating some stuff out but at some point you have to limit it. When it takes 3 hours to upload on some servers there is a problem.

Ok that’s all I got for now. Sorry, just needed to vent a bit on my recent Joomla excursions. That’s why I like being a web developer: I can make my own CMS that fits my needs exactly.

So I’m trying my hand at yet another blog. I think this one will stick because I’m not setting a theme to it. It will be just a random collection of randomness. Some posts may have a point, some may even be helpful, but most won’t. That’s the way I want it and that’s the way it’ll be. Or not. I don’t know. We’ll see. Or not.