Steve’s Blog

New Products from a Joomla Lead Developer

If you’ve been around the Joomla or Mambo projects during the last 5 years, you’ll have heard of Andrew Eddie. Currently he has the unwieldy title of “Development Working Group Coordinator”, but spend any time on the forum and you’ll see he’s hard at work in many areas of the Joomla project. Last year we interviewed Andrew about extensions that he was developing. This week he launched his new site JXtended.com and with it over a dozen products. Apart from making the owner of JExtended.com rich (I mistyped three times when writing this article alone) what can we expect from…

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All Alledia Blog Posts Now Creative Commons Licensed

Quite a lot of people have written asking permission to translate blog posts here on Alledia, so it made sense for me to clarify the license for the articles. As of today, all Alledia.com blogs posts are now licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. That means you can copy, translate and mashup any and all blog posts. The only requirement is that you provide a link back to the original article.

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Short Cuts for Great Google Rankings

Sometimes you just want a short-cut. Sometimes the idea of slogging away for months to reach your goal just doesn’t seem worth the effort. Take the woman on the right. My wife just went to Japan and found this “Dancing Cowboy” machine. Designed for people who want to get fit without effort, you don’t have to do anything. Sit there, and the machine will shake like a horse and do the exercise for you. I’m sure theres a lot of people out there who’d like some SEO shortcuts. From an e-mail I got this week: “4 months to do SEO…

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Joomla Events No Longer a Rare Event

I’ve been in the Mambo and Joomla world for several years now without going to a Joomla event. Now I’m headed to two within the next six weeks (Chicago and Vancouver) and every time I look at Joomla.org theres a new event announced. I did some research and in April alone there were Joomla events in Norway, Canada, South Africa, the Netherlands, France and Spain.

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Joomla Training in Atlanta Starting in June

We’re delighted to announce that we’re going to be holding Joomla training sessions in Atlanta, Georgia starting on Saturday June 21st, 2008. The classes are aimed at people who want to manage and build successful Joomla sites. We’ll be giving practical but not highly-technical tuition. Each session will run for a full day. Update: Full classes details on our new Joomla Training site.

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The One Where Steve Goes All Matt Cutts

Those of you who hate having their picture taken (90% of you? 95%?) will know how I felt. Several people have been asking for photos of me ready for upcoming events. I tried to put if off for as long as possible but today I needed to get it done. I’ll be at the upcoming Joomla events in Chicago and Vancouver, so if you want to say hello, you know what I look like. As the camera was out, I thought it might be a good idea to introduce to my blogging partner, Ninja. This little guy is rarely far…

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