Shlrm.org Blag

Well I should’ve known better than to just use Joomla! for something without doing the research on it.

As it appears, joomla has poor user control. There’s no granulation. So the website I’m working on for my corporation in Eve Online isn’t going to work in joomla. Mostly I need something simple to manage content. A Content Management System as it were. Joomla isn’t going to cut it. It’ll do for now, until I can find something else to manage the content.

My requirements aren’t horrible.

• Blogging type stuff – to allow corp members, who feel so inclined to post articles about their excapades
• News type stuff -  to allow the corporation to post news entries for things that happen corp wide
• Calendar type thinger – to allow the corporation to post events and/or due dates. I think this is probably very important because we need to be able to have deadlines posted somewhere easy for everyone to access. Helping to ensure that we don’t default on any corporation contracts.
• Static Document management – To hold things like the Corporate bylaws (once I figure out how to write bylaws) and other official corporate documents
• User management – I need at least the ability to moderate users to the site. And then a bit of permissions management within the site, so that not everyone can create events, post news, or muck with the corporate documents.

So the requirements for the site aren’t too strenuous, but joomla fails miserably regarding the user management. Which pretty much breaks the entire thing.

Drupal might do it, but I’ve read that drupal is quite complex. I don’t particularly want to roll my own CMS, as there’s already plenty out there, and my goal isn’t to build a CMS, the goal is to build the content, which is going to be difficult enough.

Yeah, i’ve done another thing I said I’d never do. I started playing an MMORPG. This one is a bit more single player than WoW though. You don’t have to be online with all your friends to accomplish stuff. There’s no such thing as level grinding. Your skills progress even whilst you’re offline!

It’s a space based game, you can be a pirate if you want to! Or be a miner, a business man, or a warrior. You can PvP, or not. There’s a lot of things to do. Lots and lots of skills.

Yep there goes all my free time.

This mod built by Adam Foster is quite probably the best single player mod out there for Half-life: 2. It’s got an unbelievably engrossing storyline. Even though there’s no fancy voice-over’s or anything like that. Just simple “modem” text messages. And yet that provides an excessively deep storyline. Also the scale of the facility is emphasized often. The levels aren’t really that massive, but they hint at things unseen. Also, you get the idea that Minerva isn’t telling you everything. Which only adds to the story. The levels are fantastically designed. Especially when the “big event” happens, to avoid too much of a spoiler :). It’s It’s an absolutely awesome mod. Get it and play it. You won’t regret it.