Can't we just do a "Hello, world"?

The Joomla! component tutorial walks you through creating a Model-View-Controller (MVC) component. However, the Absolute basics of a component page also mentions that a component doesn't have to be MVC; it claims that a flat model is supported, but then spends no time explaining how it's supposed to work.

Name means ID, ID means name

Let's take a break from TFS.

This time, it's Joomla!, a popular Web CMS, which has an expansive, if sorely underdocumented, extension interface. Once again, I've discovered a little undocumented something, and would like to share.

Constrained and dignified

Another day, another TFS discovery.

I was facing a minor usability issue. We have an extension with several custom menu commands for release definitions pipelines. Out of those, two only make sense for server administrators. For anybody else, they'd error out anyway. The menu was getting crowded, so I wanted to see if I could make the admin-only commands hidden for non-admin users.