Development
I've been deep into GDPR compliance extensions for Joomla recently, and while setting up a demo site I realized that compliance meant I had to give up Google Analytics. Anyone who runs a website knows this is unacceptable. Sure, there are other ways to obtain the information, but Google has really built a fantastic tool to monitor all sorts of data, not just about the visitors - but also traffic sources, time spent on specific pages, browser capabilities, and gobs more information.
I've spent several days troubleshooting issues for people who downloaded my free extensions. In every case, the issue was caused by their bad decisions and poor implementations.
Oh my goodness - I ran across some old hard drives and decided to take a peek at their contents before sending them to be recycled. I'm glad that I did! I found some things that I thought were gone forever!
My head is about to explode! My EU e-Privacy Directive extension is being recommended by everyone....everywhere! I'm having a hard time keeping up with the support and feature requests because of this surge in popularity.
For one of my customers, I provide an LMS (Learning Management System) which I built myself. It's a neat system that tracks users progress through annual training. I won't get into much detail because it's an exclusive service I provide to only this one customer. Something I will divulge (because it's necessary to establish a context to this post) is that it supports SCORM.
I had a happy moment just a few minutes ago. While I was poking around the Joomla GitHub issues, I found that my EU e-Privacy Directive extension was recommended by name, by one of the Joomla collaborators no less! Someone wanted the Joomla core to take up the functionality of my extension, and that person was shut down with a recommendation and link to my software and documentation on my site!
As I had mentioned recently, I am re-thinking my 2025 Joomla extension strategy. This begins with discontinuing extensions that don't make sense in Joomla 4 and 5. Many of my extensions are redundant (functionality has been included in the Joomla core), so I won't be updating them going forward. They will remain downloadable from my site, but won't receive any updates or support. Use at your own risk.