VictorT,

I am a little confused. Are you saying SmartPro is designed to integrate third party apps easier or it’s just taken an integrated some of the more common apps already?

I have been following Dolphin for almost a year now and have also made recommendations in Devzone for future enhancements as well as bugs I have found.

I love the work you guys have done and I cannot wait until the release of 6.1 as Dolphin will finally have enough of the basics I need to start my project. However, see more I know that I am going to need to make mods and I am going from time to time need some questions answered in a timely manner in an effort to be successful .

One of the things I am struggling with right now is how to have a developer make custom mods that are going to smoothly integrate to the Dolphin core as well as not hinder future Dolphin patches and upgrades so we can keep up with the latest’s improvements.

I mean does Dolphin have some kind of standards that a developer should be designing to make this process smooth. Something like an API or I know from working with Joomla they have a developers guide so that developers can write third party apps that very easily plug into the core as well uninstall from the core. While some of these can have challenges for the most part these third party apps are a breeze even for a novice to install, configure, and uninstall if needed.

I see where Boonex owns and operates a ton of their own sites. What concerns me a little and please take this only as constructive criticism is over the past year why you guys have done a fantastic job developing a world class community app the support process seems still needing some refinement.

For those of us out here that are serious web business people I have to wonder if your support focus is sometimes more on your own sites. Now I also realize that it’s good to have some of your own sites so you can test and mature the product for the good of everyone using them and you get an A+ for the progress you have made in making the apps what they are today. But keep in mind for those of us that want to use your product for building a serious website we need a way to get questions and support in a reasonable amount of time answered. Especially when I start paying for development of third party mods and developers are going to be in need of knowing certain things. At least I think so based on my experience.
I know it’s different for you guys as it relates to your own sites and it may be hard to understand from where you are standing because your in-house developers are already aware of all the ins and outs of your app and they control the roadmap to where the app is going.

It may be possible that I just don’t understand how all this works so please enlighten me the best way to approach future developing mods and making them compatible with future upgrades. I think there has got to be some set of standards some place that you guys are using internally so is there a place these are available to us.

I am trying to make my mods path and support for my future members as smooth as possible. So please don't read into any of this wrong.


Zorro………………………………………………