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We're Hiring a PHP & Frontend Developer

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We're looking for a PHP / HTML / CSS developer to help with the development of our site and extensions.

Everyone here at OSTraining works remotely and we have people spread all across North America. However, we are looking for someone able to work U.S. business hours.

If you can build Joomla extensions and turn existing designs into HTML and CSS, we'd love to hear from you.

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How to Test Joomla 3 Beta Versions

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Joomla 3 is the Short Term Support version of Joomla and new versions with new features arrive regularly.

Joomla 3.1 is due at the end of March and the major new feature is likely to be Tags which can be added to articles and extensions.

You can see our full introduction to the Tags feature here.

A Beta version of Joomla 3.1 is already out. The Joomla team want as many people as possible to...

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Join Us for Joomla's Pizza, Bugs, and Fun on March 16th

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Some of our staff will be participating in Joomla's Pizza, Bugs, and Fun (PBF) event on Saturday, March 16th, 2013, and we'd like you to join us in the fun.

Joomla's PBF events are one day events for the main purpose of squashing bugs before a release, while having fun and engaging with the Joomla community.  

They are usually virtual events with some live local venues around the world.  For...

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Joomla 3.1 Tags Preview

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Joomla 3.1 is just around the corner and one of the most exciting proposed features for it is Tags.

The Tags feature is still currently under review but if it gets added, it would likely be the "poster-child" for the Joomla 3.1 release.

One of the best features about the Tags component is that it allows other extensions to connect to its API and use the tags. So extension developers could...

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12 Free Extensions, Plugins and Templates

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We provide a lot of free code on OSTraining.com.

However, it's never been particularly easy to find. We had the extensions, plugins and template in multiple different locations.

No longer. We've finally organized all our free downloads. We offer a free Joomla extension specifically for downloads. It's called OSDownloads and that's what we used.

Click here to visit our new downloads area

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11 Free Extensions, Plugins and Templates

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We provide a lot of free tools on OSTraining.com.

However, they've never been particularly easy to find.

We had 11 extensions, plugins and template but they were scattered over multiple different locations.

No longer. We've finally organized all our free downloads. We offer a free Joomla extension specifically for downloads. It's called OSDownloads and that's what we used.

Click here to visit...

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Simplweb is Moving!

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Simplweb is known for its fabulous support and easy to create websites.  We also want to be your trustworthy host that gives you the flexibility and dependability you deserve.  So, without further ado, Simplweb is announcing a move to a new dedicated server space that guarantees 99.9% up-time.  With this transition, you will also receive additional security enhancements to your Joomla 1.5...

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Joomla Days in Boston and Guatemala: Free Tickets and Training

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Some events are really well timed.

Joomla Day Boston is one of those events. It's taking place in Boston on Saturday, March 16th.

The next day is St. Patricks Day and there are few places better to celebrate that day than Boston.

We have free tickets available for Joomla Day Boston and also for Joomla Day Guatemala in April.

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Update your Local Joomla Repository on a PC using TortoiseGit

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In the last tutorial, we showed you how to create a local repository. In this tutorial, we will show you how to update the local repository with the latest development changes from Joomla. This should be done each time before testing bugs or applying patches to make sure that we have the latest fixes.

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Create a Local Version of the Joomla Github Repository using TortoiseGit

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This tutorial will show you how to create a local version of the Joomla github repository, which houses the latest code base for Joomla.

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