The Joomla! Forum Workgroup would like to take this opportunity to announce its newest winner of the “Joomla! Member of the Month Award”.
Lee Cher Yeong (aka dknight) has taken the title for the month December 2008.
As the winner of this month’s Award, Lee will be receiving a brand new Joomla! T-shirt. We would like to take [...]

Just a gentle reminder about an excellent new feature on JED 1.5.
Now you can subscribe via email or RSS to this feed: http://feeds.joomla.org/JoomlaExtensionsUpdated
It’s a great feed to subscribe to not only for security reasons, but also for interest sake to see what new features are being added to Extensions and so on. More tips and [...]

Today at 20:00 UTC time the forum will be down for a short period, this is for scheduled maintenance.
Apologies for any inconvenience, the Site and Infrastructure team.

Source:Forum maintenance

The Second Edition of Joe LeBlanc’s book “Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development” is now available from PackT. Normally, I would recommend buying the book through the Joomla! Shop since the project gets an added bonus, but the title is not yet available. (When it is available, I will update this post.)
If you want to develop [...]

While setting up your own Joomla! site, it’s good to think about its security. Joomla! itself is rather save, but you can always be hacked. This is mainly the reason of mis-configurations, vulnerable 3rd party extensions and weak passwords. To help you securing your Joomla! site, reading the book Joomla! Web Security is a good [...]

The Second Edition of Joe LeBlanc’s book “Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development” is now available from PackT. Normally, I would recommend buying the book through the Joomla! Shop since the project gets an added bonus, but the title is not yet available. (When it is available, I will update this post.)
If you want to develop [...]

We received an e-mail this week from Patrick O’Keefe stating that out forum has been selected as featured board for december on phpBBHacks.com.

I am e-mailing you today to tell you that the Joomla! Discussion Forums have been selected as the Featured phpBB on phpBBHacks.com for the month of December 2008.
What is the Featured phpBB? http://www.phpbbhacks.com/features/phpbb.php
phpBBHacks.com [...]

There are now over 50 registered Joomla! User Groups around the world.  W00t!

Source:53 JUGs and more to come

During the finalisation stage of Joomla! 1.5 a team of people were working around the clock fixing bugs, testing everything and debating a lot of issues we tried to solve at that time. At that time I was talking to my fellow OSM board team member Ryan Ozimek who is owner of PICnet. I explained [...]

We are pleased to announce to the Joomla! Community the finalization of a new Joomla! Translation and Localisation Policy.
At the same time as it defines the general principles and purposes of Joomla! project concerning Internationalization, it also clarifies the status and organization of the Joomla! Translation Teams and all licensing matters relating to Translation.
In the [...]

It’s that time again!
The poll is up! Get out and vote for the Joomla! Member of the Month for November 2008!

Source:It's Time to Vote!

It’s that time again!
The poll is up! Get out and vote for the Joomla! Member of the Month for November 2008!

Source:It's Time to Vote!

I have been a member of the Joomla! Community for three years. When I think back on what we have been through as a project, I have mixed emotion about how changes have impacted us. I have worked very closely “on the inside” of the project this past year and I am impressed with the [...]

From time to time, I pick up my copy of Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel and I read. Every time I do, I enjoy Karl’s thoughtful insights into how best to motivate people. I am always reassured that maybe we are doing few things right in the Joomla! project. This book [...]

It’s that time again!
The poll is up! Get out and vote for the Joomla! Member of the Month for November 2008!

Source:It's Time to Vote!

We often hear requests for complete documentation on the Joomla Framework API or even just something on the most frequently used classes and methods.  There is the automatically-generated material at http://api.joomla.org (and I intend to get that updated as soon as I have some time), but what people really need is practical examples and useful [...]

The Documentation Working Group is pleased to announce the availability of the recently completed Joomla! 1.5 help screens in the form of an SQL dump of the live help screens hosted on http://help.joomla.org.  The file is available here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/docman/?subdir=6
With this file you can quickly and easily set up a local help server to

Serve help screens [...]

At the first DocCamp the idea came up that it would be nice to have all Help Screens for 1.5 created, accessible by the Help buttons at the Back-end of your Joomla! site. Four months later, I’m happy to announce that all Help Screens are done, and everyone is able to access all Help Screens [...]

Not only the Development Working Group and the Joomla! Bug Squad have their own mailing list.. since four days the Documentation Working Group has one as well!
You can find the mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-docs/
If you are looking for a way to help the documentation effort, then please take a look in the cookie jar where [...]

Hi there. Although I’ve been working in the software business over 30 years, I’m a relative newcomer to Joomal!. Many people think you have to be an expert before you can contribute to an open-source project like Joomla!. Well, I don’t agree, and so I decided to write down six [...]