Friday, March 6, 2009

OPINION - Joomla or Drupal or other CMS... What ?

There is a common question, that which content management systems better viz. Joomla or Drupal or other CMS?. In Mr. D.P.Tripathi's(PK Kelkar Library) opinion, If you are adeveloper and comfortable with php, fixing bugs and plugins, Drupal will be the best option over other CMS. But, if you don't want to touch the developing part, Joomla can be a best option. Both will meet your basic needs. However, I have found Joomla very easy and comfortable for developing a quick website.
Here are some features of Joomla.

1. Installation is very simple. It can be installed easily on Windows aswell as on Linux.
2. If you are not technically sound, it is good to start with Joomla.
3. Working with joomla is very easy.
4. It supports PHP, MySQL and Apache
5. It supports multimedia
6. It has a wide selection of free extension. Once it is installed, it canbe assigned to different pages.
7. Administration is very easy.
8. There is facility to log in to the site and edit the site directly inbrowser.
9. Provision for more than one person to be able to edit the site
10. There are lot of open source components that can be plugged in to thesite. For ex. RSS Syndication, RSS Import, News Letter etc.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Sri Lankan Cricketers hospitalised - Wounded Blood

At least five Pakistan policemen have been killed and up to six Sri Lankan cricket players wounded by armed men in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.
The attackers, reportedly armed with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades, targeted the Sri Lankan team's bus on Tuesday near the city's main Gaddafi cricket stadium, where Pakistan has been playing Sri Lanka in a test match.
Haji Habibur Rehman, Lahore's chief of police, said there were about 12 attackers, who "appeared to be well-trained terrorists".
"Five policemen who were providing protection to the team sacrificed their lives," he said. TV footage showed gunmen with backpacks firing at the convoy as they retreated from the scene, several damaged vehicles and a lone, unexploded grenade lying on the ground.
Rehman said one cricket player had suffered a leg injury and another was shot in the chest, but neither injury appeared life threatening.
A helicopter later landed to evacuate the uninjured members of the Sri Lankan cricket team from the stadium.

Cricketers hospitalised
Police were still pursing the suspected attackers, and have taken one man into custody.
Daniyal Hassan, a journalist with Dawn News who was at the scene, said the attack occurred "very close to the local police station".
"The shooters had fled and no one could see in what direction [they went] ... but at this point they are definitely at large," he said.
A Sri Lankan ministry official said Thilan Samaraweera and Tharanga Paranavitana were the cricketers hospitalised.
He said three other players were slightly injured and that Trevor Bayliss, the team's head coach and an Australian national, also sustained minor wounds.
Sri Lankan cricket officials said the test match has been called off after the shooting, and that they are working to get the team out of the country as soon as possible.
Sri Lanka's cricketers were invited to Pakistan after India pulled out over security concerns. Security experts defused two car bombs and recovered a stash of weapons including grenades, three kilogrammes of explosives, a pistol and a detonating cable after the deadly ambush, the AFP news agency reported.