[week 52] Your personal Mambo year 2004

[pflegeonline]

I think 2004 was one of the most exiting, most productive and most emotional years. And 2005 will be more
I'm working with mambo since 2 years, and I must say that I'm proud to say that I'm part of a great community and eaven a greater piece of software!

Even personally it was a rather good 2004, except my girlfriend quit relationship, but my school ended and I'm a male nurse now, startet my own business, that works good, and I've won a lot of new friends in this community!

Thanks to you all out there, especially the CoreTeam, the Community and everybody investing his speartime in Mambo!
Merry Christmas and a good new year!

[stevewhite]

I discovered Mambo in June of this year.

Being neither a programmer or DB person I found Mambo intuitive, easy to use and a delight to work with. I have even been able to work out what the core code is doing to change it a little to suite my needs.

I have built 3 community sites (churches etc) and have 2 others in production.

I am still working in 4.5 and 4.5.1. 2005 I will need to upgrade my 4.5 sites.

The bummer of the year was getting a certain person, who shall remain nameless, crawling all over my butt. All is quiet now and I hope it remains that way.

mamboportal is a wonderful site and the forum has been very supportive and informative.

Now if I can only make some money out of Mambo??!!

Thank you all.

[mambosolutions]

2004 was eally an amazing year for me personally concerning Mambo. I started my Template of the Month Club in Jan 04 and it really has been successful beyond my expectations. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has joined!

Also i was able to find time to create MSAS and create a template tutorial, and several GPL templates. Many new friends I have met through Mambo this year - just want to thank the dev team and especially the regulars in the Mambo community who continually make these and the official mambo forums a place that is ever helpful and interesting.

all the best in 2005!

Go!Mambo



happy holiday one and all

[prj]

I started with Mambo when 4.0 was the latest version, I new zilch about PHP & MySQL but I was impressed. I later jumped right in with the 4.5 betas and kept up with all the components and releases untill 4.5.1 betas, I have not yet jumped to 4.5.1 as I have so many sites running on 4.5 and I am still learning all that can do and need to have time to even try an upgrade.

I am rather daunted by the thought one upgrade let alone so many. I will have to do at some point and I am not managing to keep up with all the developments as it is so fast now. Frankly its a full time job just keeping up but will jump once the 4.5.1 components and modules reach a critical mass.

I am an ardent Mamboer but really wish I could code rather than just hack though I have managed some templates from scratch. I see so much more that could be done but lack the skills.

Despite the ups and downs in the Mambo Community I believe Mambo and the community to be the most significant thing to me tech wise since my 1st Amstrad lugable, (That ages me a bit), and then the internet proper! I can't imagine working without Mambo or the community and my heart felt thanks to the Core Team, Authur, all the developers and other Mambers.

I am not bad at spotting trends and regarding Mambo "Baby, You just aint seen nothing yet!"

I don't even bother with any other CMS, POST what? Na why bother.

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Foot note to Arthur: If yoursite(s) goes offline without warning there will be serious panic accross the globe, too many of us need them 24/7 and if truth be known it would be worse than cold turkey or loosing an arm or leg.

[idigital]

Originally Posted by X-F4CT0R

Idigital (Damian Caynes) who was a trouble maker here a few months ago has been honored "in my opinion" as one of the better mambo coders/hackers as you can see what he has done with reviewgamer.com

Arnes mate, I know you didn't mean it that way.

I wasn't actually going to write about my personal Mambo year in this topic of the week, now I think I should.

It is true that I was seen as a troublemaker by some, this was more to do with a communication breakdown than anything. It's understandable that if a new person comes into any community and is very outspoken and opinionated, this could seem to be "troll" behaviour.

As I told Arthur in my Who's Who interview on MamboPortal, these are the kinds of drama that anyone can find themselves in if they pop up at the wrong time. I happened to be voicing my opinions at exactly the wrong times.

So that period was my personal low of my Mambo year. Being banned from Mamboserver more than any other person ever, being compared to Brian Connolly without reason. These were things that caused me grief, it really was quite upsetting and I almost left the community because of it.

Note that this is my personal year of Mambo...

My high points of this Mambo year were finding Mambo in April, making contact with so many great people in the community over the time since, becoming involved with so many great projects and starting my own successful project with Mambo Spread Firefox. Finally, the custom development that is ReviewGamer (as my good mate arnes points out ), which has been an affirmation that I can do something excellent with Mambo.

The releases I liked the most of this year? Seriously? All of them

People in the community I would like to thank? There are so many it's hard to keep track... Arnes, Tim Y, Andrew, Steven, Amit, Viksit, Mitch, Joe, Arthur, John, David, Sebastian, Christian, Andy, Vikas, Vasco, Simeon, Federico, Theodore, Mike, and everyone else who helped me realise what a great community this is and that I wasn't the only one with an opinion.

Here's to a great 2005, and merry Xmas to all!

Cheers,

Damian

p.s. betcha didn't expect that eh?

[X-F4CT0R]

Originally Posted by idigital

Arnes mate, I know you didn't mean it that way.

I wasn't actually going to write about my personal Mambo year in this topic of the week, now I think I should.

It is true that I was seen as a troublemaker by some, this was more to do with a communication breakdown than anything. It's understandable that if a new person comes into any community and is very outspoken and opinionated, this could seem to be "troll" behaviour.

As I told Arthur in my Who's Who interview on MamboPortal, these are the kinds of drama that anyone can find themselves in if they pop up at the wrong time. I happened to be voicing my opinions at exactly the wrong times.

So that period was my personal low of my Mambo year. Being banned from Mamboserver more than any other person ever, being compared to Brian Connolly without reason. These were things that caused me grief, it really was quite upsetting and I almost left the community because of it.

Note that this is my personal year of Mambo...

My high points of this Mambo year were finding Mambo in April, making contact with so many great people in the community over the time since, becoming involved with so many great projects and starting my own successful project with Mambo Spread Firefox. Finally, the custom development that is ReviewGamer (as my good mate arnes points out ), which has been an affirmation that I can do something excellent with Mambo.

The releases I liked the most of this year? Seriously? All of them

People in the community I would like to thank? There are so many it's hard to keep track... Arnes, Tim Y, Andrew, Steven, Amit, Viksit, Mitch, Joe, Arthur, John, David, Sebastian, Christian, Andy, Vikas, Vasco, Simeon, Federico, Theodore, Mike, and everyone else who helped me realise what a great community this is and that I wasn't the only one with an opinion.

Here's to a great 2005, and merry Xmas to all!

Cheers,

Damian

p.s. betcha didn't expect that eh?

Great to see you again my friend

I'm glad to hear from you and what you think of Mambo 2004

p.s. betcha didn't expect that eh?

Oh trust me, i did expect it just didn't know when

[robbie]

In april this year mambers.com was opened, mambers.com was on fronthand already bombed as THE community forum, which it is now after those months and was in April. With over 12000 members it's of course one of the bigger communities, and now it's finally a bit nicer as some time ago, when everybody hated eachother. Many flame topics were started against arthur and other people. Although i don't remember much of it I have been helping a lot of people. In the summer this year again flametopics started, i got sick of it and was going to beach instead of reading mambers.com (which i didnt do bfore :P). Since a month or so i picked up mambo again and started posting overhere again It's way nicer to get here now as before !

But related to mambo itself nothing real happened for me..

[Admin]

Thanks everybody for your personal view on this Mambo year.

For me it was a very stormy year full of ups and downs. It started with the birth of my daughter in january. I love her very much, but I never thought that someone soo small can produce so much work...

In February I decided to move the Mamboportal.com forums to a new domain. I therefore registered Mambers.com.

In March Mamboportal.com moved to a brand new root server. This gave me much more flexibility, bandwidth and made the whole experience for the user much more faster.

In April we started Mambers.com. But the first month was a desaster. Although the new website was used by the Mambers around the world, I lost nearly 75% of the moderation crew again. Since then some forums are still unmoderated.

In May I started another Mambo website: Mamble.com. Although it is only visited by about 750 people daily, it became the largest links directory for Mambo. I hope I can get it to 1k visitors/daily untill May next year, otherwise I sadly have to drop the project again.

In May I also dropped my job and started to life from computer skills. I coded my first commercial product, AkoForms, which became a big success for me.

In August I meet my first Mambo friends in real life, the german moderation crew of Mambers.com. Together we invented the Mamboday, which will become reality in May next year.

In November I started MamboFAQ.com. They website should become a large directory for frequently asked questions. Sadly I did not find the time at the end of the year to setup a maintenance team and to promote the website. This has been delayed to next year.

In December my next project, MamboShop.com, started a first public testing. It will be a large shopping system for multiple sellers. This project will also start next year.

The rest of the year was nearly business as usual for me. I updated Mamboportal.com nearly daily. I released a few commercial templates over the year. And I changed hundreds of nappies...