In Week 2 of our series of interviews with people in the Joomla world, we’re delighted to welcome Barrie North from JoomlaShack.com and CompassDesigns.net. Barrie was kind enough to take a while out of his busy schedule to talk about…
JoomlaYellowPages.com has been going for 4 months now and in that time we’ve found Joomla developers in 42 countries. It seems like a good time to run down where the commercial Joomla world is today. Which areas of the world…
Template clubs, template clubs, template clubs. There are literally dozens of template vendors jostling for attention in the crowded Joomla market, trying to compete for your $30 / $50 / $80 per year. While free components are still produced…
Ever since Google released its Code Search feature which made it next to impossible to safely create and store backups on a webserver, we’ve been struggling with a security question: Backing up MySQL databases every day is easy, but…
People have already proven that big companies can be built using Open Souce software. 15 years ago Linux started as the hobby of a Finnish university student. Companies such as RedHat have built on his developments and created multi-billion dollar…
We’re delighted to announce a new feature here at Alledia. Every Monday for the next few weeks, we’ll be interviewing people closely involved in developing for Joomla First up is Cory Webb, the talented web designer who is involved in…
A while ago we blogged about the slow death being suffered by the Open Directory. On October 20th their servers crashed and since then no-one was able to submit sites and editors could not update categories. Finally, two months…
A few weeks ago we mentioned that there was some good news for those people who have duplicate content on their site. A Google staff member mentioned that there was no longer going to be an active penalty for websites…
I had the pleasure of talking to Phil Braddock, a Melbourne based Joomla developer, over the Christmas holidays. He runs Salsa Internet and is someone who comes at Joomla from the perspective of someone focused on trying to improve…
Over the last few years the domain business has profesionalized rapidly with big corporations forming, each controlling thousands of domains. Companies like iREIT and Moniker have led the way using large statistical packages to analyze every feature of a domain…