I used to hate the idea of Twitter and I was utterly opposed to becoming part of it. The idea of random people watching what I was doing seemed weird and useless. I don’t love being in the spotlight, I’m even a bit of a recluse at times. So it seemed exceptionally out of character to want to have people follow my random thoughts… That is, until I realized what I was missing out on. I want to grow a community. I want to contribute. I have something to bring to the table and I’m not going to wait for [...]

I just finished a large chunk of work on my own full-text search plugin for Joomla. It works in conjunction with Sphinx to index and search Joomla content “the right way.” (i.e. not using basic LIKE statements) Edit (Feb. 27, 2010): I just released a beta version of this plugin here: Joomla Sphinx Search Plugin Joomla has been notorious for not being able to sort search results by relevancy and really, it’s not very fast either. Sphinx allows for full-text searching on any type of database table (so you’re not forced to use MyISAM), and can even work with PostgreSQL [...]