OK – you’re probably sick of Vegas analogies by now. “Raising the stakes”, “going all in”, “upping the ante” … however you describe it, Joomla Day Las Vegas is starting to look really, really good. This is the current presenter line-up and we hope to have even more big names to announce soon:
Hopefully you noticed … we finally migrated this site to Joomla 1.5.
It took two months of planning and then two weeks of solid work to do the migration. Why so long? The Joomla core team have done their job but third-party developers are terrible at explaining how to move their extensions from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5. Even those that bothered to write instructions still hide them as if it was their dirty socks.
So, in the hope it will save someone else sometime, here are the migration instructions you’ll have a hard time finding elsewhere:
The EBI is a partnership between Britsh Petroleum (although it always goes by BP in the United States) plus a group of leading universities that includes the University of California, Berkeley; the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and the University of Illinois.
It’s one the largest joint initiatives between a private corporation and a public university in history and has stirred some debate.
They’ve just got a new Joomla site at http://energybiosciencesinstitute.com
The site was built by Isham and his team at Creative Mischief in Atlanta. They were also responsible for last year’s Burger King promotion using Joomla.
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People in the U.K. are lucky. One of the best line-ups of Joomla speakers ever is going to be at Joomla Day U.K. in 2 weeks:
All events have their own flavor. The CMS Expos are very heavily weighted towards commercial developers. The Las Vegas Joomla Day offers both and is Joomla’s first foray for a long time into the U.S. South West. The U.K. event is full of Joomla.org representatives. In alphabetical order, you’ll find many if not most of the core team and other project leads:
Last week I did a presentation for the Joomla Users Group in New York, and did a David Letterman-style top ten list twice. The first list was “Top Ten Thing to Explain to Joomla Learners” and here’s the second … ten way to improve your Joomla site’s SEO:
Wow, I’ve finally realised how much Twitter is taking over. This morning’s post on the “Top Ten Things To Explain To Joomla Learners” created a lot of comments and feedback, but it was all on Twitter. Actually leaving a comment on the post seems suddenly to be out-of-date. With this trend, it can’t be long before Tweetbacks start appearing on Joomla as well as WordPress.
Last night I did a presentation for the Joomla Users Group in New York, talking about Joomla SEO and teaching Joomla. As I’d never done a Skype presentation before I wanted to have a structure ready. Being a Big Apple talk, I decided to rip off David Letterman and do a top ten list:
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We’re really happy to announce the addition of 3 new teachers and 3 new classes to our JoomlaTraining.com line-up. In addition to our Joomla beginner classes, we’re now also offering:
Because we love our customers so much, we’ve got a special offer for Valentine’s Day:
Use the coupon "valentine" for 33% off.
This offer is good here at Alledia.com and at JoomlaTraining.com. It lasts until … you’ve guessed … February 14th.
If you’re on the East Coast of the U.S. you can use this for our upcoming Joomla training classes in New York, Washington and Atlanta. Students at those three clases have access to our special "6 Months After-Class Support" offer.
Just a quick post to let you know that the Atlanta Joomla group is expanding. There’ll now be a second meeting each month:
Thanks to Nick for help with getting this new meeting started and thanks also to Steven and Brent for their help in Alpharetta.
If you’re in Atlanta or North Georgia, feel free to sign up for the group via http://www.meetup.com/atlantajoomla/ and we’ll see you at one of the upcoming meetings!
If I’ve missed an event, drop it in the comments …
This is probably the most satisfying post I’ve written in the three years of this blog … this weekend we relaunched LakeLanier.com using Joomla.
The site has been a labor of love. We live on the lake and I can see the water out the window while typing this post.
The launch also marks the end of a long process. The site had only one previous owner and he’d run it for around 15 years, having registered the name back in the mid-1990s. It took around 18 months to go through the sale process and then another several months to build out the site on evenings and weekends.
The lake is an hour north of Atlanta and its really a beautiful part of North Georgia if you ever get the chance to visit. The Olympic rowing events were held in here in 1996 and the Superbowl of fishing, the Forrest Wood Cup, will be here next year.
This is a sponsored review of the Jomsocial extension. For details of having your extension reviewed, please contact us. Note that a sponsored review doesn’t mean I’ll like the product, just that I’ll take the time to review it thoroughly.
For several years there has really one been one social networking option for Joomla … Community Builder. Some people love it, others hate it, but it was impossible to ignore. We use it here on alledia.com because three years ago it was really the only option for expanded user profiles and networking.
Two months ago Azrul, the developer of Jomcomment and MyBlog, released an alternative social networking solution called Jomsocial. Is it any good?