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Migrating to Joomla 1.5

Dirty SocksHopefully 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:

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BP Uses Joomla for Energy Biosciences Institute

EBI-LogoThe 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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Best List of Joomla Day Speakers Ever?

joomla_day_uk_button_200x40_event_reg.png 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:

The Speakers

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:

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The Power of Twitter and User Feedback

Joomla SurveyWow, 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 Actually leaving a comment on the post seems suddenly to be out-of-date.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.

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Valentines Day Discount Coupon

Joomla Training Coupon

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.

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Second Atlanta Joomla Group Opens

Joomla AtlantaJust 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!

Not in Atlanta?

  • Aussies: The Joomla Day in Melbourne is only a couple of days away now
  • Pommies: Joomla Day UK is in 5 weeks
  • Gamblers: Joomla Day Las Vegas is in April
  • Crooked Politicians: CMS Expo is back in Chicago at the end of April
  • Yankees: Joomla Day New England is coming in May
  • Milwaukee: Can’t think of any digs at Milwaukee … can barely even spell it. Anyway, the user group there just held their first meeting very successfully with over 35 people

If I’ve missed an event, drop it in the comments …

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LakeLanier.com Relaunches With Joomla

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.

About LakeLanier.com

LakeLanier.comThe 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.

About Lake Lanier

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.

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Review of Jomsocial

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.

Jomsocial 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?

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6 Months Free Support for Joomla Training Students

joomla training

We delighted to offer a new bonus for all students at JoomlaTraining.com classes:

6 months free support after each class

You’ll have all the resources and teaching materials from the class plus access to our experts for another 6 months.

After a full-day of Joomla training, you can now take home another half-year of help. We think its a great deal. If you agree, we hope to see you at a class soon.

If you’d like to know more please feel free to contact us.

Also don’t forget about the other bonuses that all attendees receive:

  • A flash drive full of tutorials and best-of-breed Joomla components.
  • Free membership to the Alledia.com SEO Club. ($99 value)
  • Free copy of the Alledia.com Bolt Template. ($60 value)
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