I think this qualifies as a Frequently Asked Question when to comes to Joomla implementation:

Can it up-scale reliably?

The answer has always been “yes” since the days of Joomla 1.0, but achieving that goal was a tricky affair.

You had to set-up a cluster using HAProxy/Keepalived in front of your (two or more) Joomla webservers, and have them connect to the same database/Db cluster.

Joomla cluster (4 webservers with HAPoxy/KeepAlived)

And trying this on Windows servers would have made you the butt of many cruel jokes. It had to be Linux!

Booby Trap(sss)

There were some other niggles and (more…)

I finally made time to read Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston

Founders At Work Book

Wow! What an interesting and insightful book! It’s just one of those books that you wish you had read when they hit the shelves, and it leaves you with strange but exciting feeling that you could not possibly have gained the knowledge within from any other source.

From The Horses’ Mouth

The book contains candid one-on-one interviews between the author and 32 entrepreneurs, most of whom have built the most successful tech businesses in the world today.

Lessons On Relevance

What struck me is the fact that most of these success stories originally started out with a different business idea from what eventually made them successful. The challenges they faced and their accidental discoveries make you realise that the tech business world could easily have been a different place than what we know and take for granted today.

My favourite stories are from the early days of computing (Lotus, Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Software Arts, WAIS, and RIM). There isn’t a single interview that I did not find interesting.

The Rocky Road

I was bowled over by the humorous escapades of Paul Graham (Y-Combinator) and Evan Williams* (Blogger.com) – Things went horribly wrong yet these folks kept going even with little or no money.
*Evan Williams sold Blogger.com to Google and went on to co-found twitter.com with Biz Stone

Not many people can claim to have inspired new University programs. These folks can and I recommend this book to anyone in the tech business and everyone who isn’t.

Be warned, once you start reading itll be hard to put this book down

Have you read it yet? What are your thoughts?

UPDATE: Enhanced code styling 30 June 2009

This post will show you how to write a basic AIR application in HTML/JavaScript and get it to speak AMF with your Joomla! 1.5 (and above) installation.

If you’re just starting out, see how to setup and run J-AMFPHP in Joomla first. We’ll be creating our AIR application based on that example.

Why HTML and JavaScript?

I’ve seen some tutorials on the web that dive straight into FlexBuilder’s MXML layouts and AS3 classes as a start. Although the thinking behind MXML is to mimic (X)HTML, I feel that starting out with (X)HTML is the easiest way for a (more…)