Oh gosh! Been awhile since I wrote here.  We've been completely swamped by the impending launch of one of the most complex sites I've worked on. We're using a bunch of extensions with a variety of compliance to Joomla 1.5 coding standards. None of them perfect, but some pretty darn close.

Joomsuite has been a mixed blessing. Having the code encrypted makes it more difficult for me to be excited about it. The idea is fantastic, but I'm finding it's capabilities - at least for our purposes - quite limited. And it's buggy. And it has a long way to go to meet my standards for a fully Joomla 1.5 compliant extensions.

Given the desires of the client, and Joomsuite's limitations, I ended up writing a component to fill in the the gaps. This is where the blessing gets really mixed. I've been pretty surprised what I've been able to do, but it's created a number of nightmares for maintaining control over how and where to display content. But overall, I'm pretty impressed with some of the things I can do with Joomsuite and in the ways I've been able to get my component to cross-talk with it.