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byadrian.rosian, February 1, 2012
jVoteSystem
Thank you very much for the extension, it's a lot of work to do for free and I for one appreciate that as I am a developer myself.

One small observation, though: your component is GPL, which means one can modify it as he/she wants and can distribute the modifications under the same terms. You cannot forbid them to modify a component unless they make a donation, this is not how it works.

Again, great job!
byadrian.rosian, November 23, 2011
jUpgrade
Thank you very much guys for your work on this life-saving tool. I migrated a site in one day, with all the updated extensions. There were some menu issues after migrating, but that was mainly due to overlapping aliases and (guessing) because the menu tree in Joomla 1.7 is very different of the menu tree in 1.5.

Anyways, thanks a lot, you saved me a lot of painful hours of work!
byadrian.rosian, October 19, 2010
Tienda
This component is far from an alpha stage, from what I see, I don't know why the developers say it's a beta!

I am a developer myself and I had trouble setting up a paid downloads site (event though that's one of the highlighted features of this component!). I spent half a day trying to setup a simple one product shop! The worst part is that I didn't suceed!

Just from the top of my head:
1. they need a Lock Tables priviledge! I don't want to allow that and I don't understand why they need it, it's simply bad programming to depend on exotic features.
2. products are not displayed at all inside categories. I couldn't figure out why yet.
3. even though I set product prices and they are seen correctly in product editing mode, when displaying the product list, the displayed price is still 0. I don't trust a shopping component that doesn't handle MONEY well.
4. Trying to define a Geo Tax Zone throws a big relations error and without the geo zones taxes are useless.

Support is expensive, as other users mentioned, but I WONT'T BOTHER to get support if the component's basic features don't work. I don't even dare to think about security if those fetaures are a problem.

To finish on a positive note, nice try, but tag is correspondingly unless it works.
Owner's reply

Thanks for your review. A couple notes:

1) Based on your summary of the issues you've had with your database, it sounds like you didn't read the minimum requirements for Tienda. Take a look at them and ensure that your server meets the minimum requirements.

2) The installation package for Tienda also includes an alternative install.sql file that only uses MyISAM (as opposed to InnoDB). As a developer, I suspect you would have no trouble using that installation file, and I also suspect it would resolve your database issues (which is all 4 of the items in your list)

3) Support isn't expensive! If you are installing Tienda, I can only assume you are setting up an ecommerce store (probably for a client, but maybe even for yourself!). If $99 for support is too much to ask, then you either aren't billing your client enough, don't have high expectations for your store's sales, or are dramatically undervaluing our support.

Thanks!

byadrian.rosian, February 6, 2010
Tag Meta
I must say I am impressed with this component. If you are carefull when developing your website and you use a good template and you use sound building practices, this component can help you fill in the gaps for section an categories SEO and also for the components for which the SEO doesn't seem to be important.
Congratulations to the developer, I am an extension developer myself and I very much like this one.
Keep up the good work!
byadrian.rosian, December 20, 2009
XIJC
Brilliant the way you integrated the plugin into the core component (considering the fact that no event is triggered). Please note that if you navigate away from the protected page, without submitting the form, you get a "captcha invalid" message. My guess, either the session or my caching, but, again, brilliant plugin. Keep up the good work.
byadrian.rosian, August 24, 2009
Component Content Control
Very good work, Roger! Nice code, clean and to the point. You should consider striping the parameters from the plugin and combining this with a component to create a true acl system, with groups and permissions to access every component. It's a start.
byadrian.rosian, August 21, 2009
K2
At first I was skeptical, knowing Fotis from his posts on Twitter. I said to myself "someone that proud cannot produce something good". I then tried, in a moment of "weakness" the component. I must admit that if I would have created such a component, I would be twice more infatuated!

By far the best content organizing component, it has everything that a website needs to get success. I haven't tested it yet for SEO but if that part is as well done as the rest of the component, than I cannot say something else but that I bow to the creator and wish them all the best in the world for giving the community their great work.
byadrian.rosian, May 27, 2009
JEA
Excellent component, quality coding, nice features and totally free.
Congratulations to the developer and his team!
byadrian.rosian, May 10, 2009
Code Lobster PHP Edition
If you download the ide and install it, it says that you ca get a free code, it even asks you what plugins you want to install(joomla included). The registration button takes you to those guys' website and a form asks you what you are interested in (in my case joomla development), then the registration code allows you to work with everything BUT that(no Joomla project available in New project menu!). You have to buy the plugin if you need it! Well thank you, but I'll stick to Eclipse, who does all I need. I just thought that this is better!
byadrian.rosian, March 5, 2009
Component Creator
The best tool for Joomla that was released lately! I bow to you! You are the best!
Owner's reply

Thank you for the kind words!

byadrian.rosian, February 4, 2009
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
ContentMap
Worked as a charm! The documentation is easy to understand and the plugin is simply great.
Owner's reply

Thanks for your good feedback :)