Finally it looks like we may have an answer to the question I posed last year: can Joomla or Drupal produce a RedHat?
Drupal’s founder Dries Buytaert has launched a new company called Acquia that has picked up $7 million in venture capital funding. (Apparently the new name is meant to refer to “aqua” and Drupal’s original meaning of “drop of water”).
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I’ve not been able to find the reason yet, but search engines been indexing a lot of search results on Joomla sites. It seems to be an issue with the component itself, rather than any particular URL setup. I’ve been able to identify the issue with several different setups:
There’s a lot to remember when launching a Joomla site, but theres one thing that you absolutely must do ….
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The first Extension of the Month for 2008 comes with a very strong recommendation … after all, over the last few months it has become a cornerstone here at Alledia.com.
Account Expiration Component (AEC) from globalnerd.org allows you to offer paid site memberships.
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Many, many thanks for all your support, help, comments, emails and friendship during 2007.
I wanted to give you all a quick heads up about Alledia.com over the holidays …
As a ex-pat living in the United States, I’m returning to England for Christmas and will be there from December 24th until January 7th.
I’ll be traveling with my laptop and will be online every day but it won’t quite be the same as working full-time:
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Joomlatwork.com have updated their metadata patch for Joomla 1.5 Release Candidate 4. The patch is free to download by clicking here.
With free and commercial integrations of phpBB3 planned for Joomla 1.5, we’re soon going to have several excellent forum extensions available for Joomla.
However, for Joomla 1.0 Fireboard is still the best and easiest option. Here are three great ways to spice up your Fireboard installation:
People love short cuts. People particularly love short cuts that they think will reach 1000s of new customers. So, its easy to understand why people might love automatic translation tools.
However, this is a clear case where easy is not best.
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There’s been a lot of hype this week about Google’s new Knol project that people have been comparing to Wikipedia, and there’s a Joomla connection…
Its a Dutch vacuum cleaner company who have been in business since 1969. They have a Joomla website using Virtuemart and a Rockettheme template. Apparently it crashed in the aftermath of the announcement, but its back online now and the owner Hilco Knol says he’s not selling:
We want to launch our own products what you can see on our knol.com Internet site.
For the rest we see whats happening."