A whole bunch of stuff from the prolific Barrie North and the Joomlashack team over the last couple of weeks:
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Joomla News
In this section you can read Alledia blog posts about the Joomla! project.
Key Questions for the Joomla Project
For those of you that haven’t read it yet, there’s a fascinating post over on the Joomla forums, that touches on many crucial questions for the project.
The thread started innocuously when one member posted a “Things I don’t like about Joomla” list. In trying to answer them, lead developer Johan Jansseens mentioned that, “Encryption of Joomla! extensions is a violation of the GPL”. This generated more questions than it answered, because many Joomla components are encrypted and thus potentially violating the Joomla! license.
What’s Your Favorite Joomla Extension Discovery?
OK …. A very simple post today and a test to see how many people actually read this blog 🙂
One of my favorite things about working full-time with Joomla is that even though I spend 12 hours per day with my head buried in the software, there’s always another extension around the corner ready to do something so great that it expands what I think Joomla can do.
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Joomla User Group in Atlanta and U.S. South East
We’re delighted to announce the launch of Joomla South East, which is one of a growing number of Joomla User Groups around the world.
We aim to have our first meeting(s) in Atlanta but also to reach out to current and potential Joomla users around the South East of the United States.
If you’re interested, please sign up at JoomlaSouthEast.com. Then you can go to the forum and help us work out where and when we can first meet as Joomla South East!
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Joomla Blogs Everyone Ought to Read
As today is Valentines Day I wanted to send love out to some of the excellent Joomla bloggers giving back to the community with news, tutorials, advice and opinions.
Below is a list of Joomla blogs, all of which are worth subscribing to. The criteria for inclusion is that they focus primarily on Joomla, are largely informative rather than commercial, and that they are updated at least one a week on average. I believe those three are important factors in keeping a blog fresh and informative.
Most but not all of these are available together in one place – the excellent JoomlaFeed.com.
- Amy Stephen
- Cory Webb’s How to Joomla
- Hummerbie’s SEO Blog
- Joomla Core Developers’ Blog
- Pathos SEO
- Qasim Virjee’s Why Joomla?
If I’ve missed any other blogs that meet the criteria – let me know and I’ll add them to the list.
Joomla 1.5 Out in Beta
Here it is, Ladies and Gentlemen… Joomla 1.5 (in Beta form at least).
You can read the official posting here: http://www.joomla.org/content/view/2088/74/
The long and the short of it is that 1.5 is a developer-friendly leap forward from the older framework. Non-coders won’t see a huge difference in how Joomla operates until developers start putting forward their new components. Then the potential of the new software will hopefully become apparent.
This is a crucial release for Joomla that will go a very long way to deciding whether it continues its current, impressive momentum:
- More than 60,000 registered users on the Official Joomla! community site forum and more on the many international community sites.
- 1168 Projects on the Joomla! Forge (forge.joomla.org). All for open source addons by third party developers.
- 890+ extensions for Joomla! registered on the Extension site (extensions.joomla.org)
- Joomla.org exceeds 2 TB of traffic per month!
- Alexa report [October 2006]: Joomla.org at #492 of top 500 busiest websites in the world.
- Community forums, over half a million posts, and 60,000 activated users. Growing at over 1200 posts per day and 150 new partcipants each day!