Last week I learnt how to get started on writing my own component.

September's Sydney User Group meeting happened to be on while I was up there for work, so I called by last Tuesday to meet some Joomla folk in the Emerald City and see what Greg had to teach us about writing components.
Seems it's easier than at least I thought, and I hope to get around to writing a new component to do something handy soon. Greg took the group through how to modify the Hello World component to get to the point where you had changed the name of the component and enhanced the basic functionality... ok so it was just to show the Hello World text differently, but it was a start.

The Sydney User Group site has more detail and some files to get you started. Check it out...

The rest of the evening saw a bit of discussion on 1.5, the potential problems with transitions so far, and some comparisons about what different things people have done with Joomla.