The Joomla project is pleased to announce the immediate release of Joomla 1.6 alpha 2. This release contains many new features requested by the community; most notably, ACL. Other features are listed below as well as what you can expect in the future for Joomla 1.6.
This is an alpha release. It is intended to be a developer/hobbyist preview and is not intended to be used on a production web...
The first ever Joomla! Developer Conference will be on December 5 and 6 in New York City. Joomla developers who distribute extensions, build custom solutions or develop in house will learn about 1.6 development and learn from each other and core developers. Among those presenting will be Louis Landry, Andrew Eddie, Ian Mclennnon, Hannes Papenburg and Aaron Newton (from the Mootools team).
Of course, everyone has their own opinions on this subject, just like everyone has their own preferences on operating system, web browser etc. So, the following brief thoughts are just an expression of my opinion on this subject. BTW I prefer Mac OS, Firefox/Google Chrome
What prompted me to write this post?
Having recently (last weekend) attended the Sydney JoomlaDay and now preparing for the
According to a report issued by CMSWire (registration required), the Joomla! community has created the world's most popular open source content management system. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this: core developers, people who answer forum questions, team members, translators, site implementers, extension developers, template designers, Joomla fans and everyone else who helps...
There have been several non joomla.org blog posts about the current situation of the feed content appearing in Joomla Connect.
To this end, without giving several URLs to the many blog posts appearing questioning why their posts have been removed and in some cases dropped altogether, here are some reasons.
So far I have taken a step back approach to (mostly spam) reports on the Joomla Connect...
If you've been following the developments lists (or even if you haven't), you've noticed a flurry of activity around Joomla 1.6 in recent months. While we haven't been very good about keeping our milestones, there are a few very good reasons for that.
The first and biggest reason is we've been trying to shoot at a moving target. The scope for Joomla 1.6 was pretty basic—adding ACL and nested...
Greetings from the JRD Editorial Team,
The Joomla! Resources Directory has seen some excellent growth since it's inception back in June of this year.
We started out with an overwhelming response from community members to help us 'test drive' the new site and then an absolute FLOOD of listing submissions when we launched the site for public use. This proposed a few problems. Mainly, there's...
In great showing of success, the large auditorium in Ulan Bator's IT Park held a great crowd of Joomla! users from across the city for the first ever Joomla!Day Mongolia. With leadership of the day's events by Mr. T. Altansukh and the Mongolian translation team, this event had much great news to celebrate.
The day's events kicked off with a terrific guest speaker, B. Dolgor, Head of the...
That's what you will be able to say from now on when you explain your new site to someone else. Yes, we finally found a solution for the access management problems in Joomla and it is also already implemented in the trunk.
One of Joomla's biggest weaknesses so far has been the missing control over who can do what in Joomla. You only had those three viewlevels (Public, Registered, Special) and...
If you haven't visited the Joomla Site Showcase yet, you're missing a collection of some of the best Joomla sites out there. We've just broken 1000 sites (congratulations to our 1000th site, the Junction Motel in Australia), many of which are great examples of sites in over 100 different categories. Check it out here:
http://community.joomla.org/showcase
We're looking for new community members...
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