Today I ran into yet another Joomla! 1.0 site that had Core tables altered by other extensions. Thankfully Joomla! 1.0 is going away soon and 1.6 is coming up, so I want everyone to make a new years resolution for 2009 for me: I won’t hack the Joomla! Core (either files or database). I know [...]

Happy Birthday to docs.joomla.org!  I almost didn’t notice, but our wiki-based documentation site passed its first birthday on 29 December 2008.
In that first year we have gone from nothing to over 800 pages of information on the wiki.  Although we have more than 7,000 users registered with authenticated email addresses now, I would particularly like [...]

With each passing year, it is worthwhile to reflect and consider what to leave behind and where to invest limited time in the future. I hope for the Joomla! community that we will learn to collaborate more and more and innovate creative software solutions and Web sites. I hope that more Joomla! Users Groups and [...]

As most of you know, we run a Joomla! Member of the Month award (JMotM). So… do you know someone in the community that is continuesly helping other members, or contributing in some other way? Nominate him or her!
You can send in your nomination to robinDOTmuilwijkATforumDOTjoomlaDOTorg (this month only!) or send me a private [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Way back when, eons ago we announced, that the family of Joomla Web sites were undergoing a major upgrade and facelift. Having just completed the Joomla Extensions Directory, here’s the current status:  

Joomla main site at www.joomla.org - Complete. Phase 2 improvements in process.
Joomla Shop at shop.joomla.org - Complete.
Joomla Demo at demo.joomla.org - Complete.
Joomla Community Portal [...]

Protecting the Joomla! Trademark in JED
We love when people talk about Joomla, build business around Joomla, and produce products that make life better for Joomla users and developers. At the JED we especially love it when people build extensions for Joomla.
As most of you probably already know, Joomla! and the Joomla! logo are trademarked. We [...]

Happy Holidays to members of the Joomla! Community from all over the world.

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Regenerated and powered up again after our Joomla! Day in Switzerland, all my memorys up on this is about, new Friends, good friends, lets say beloved fellows. We had not only attendance from around Switzerland on our venue no, Germany, Austria had joined in too. In a first view, a pity [...]

It’s finally out, Songbird an Open Source Music Player.
If you like Open Source Software and follow the suite of Mozilla products, you’ll at least want to take a look at this new release. It appears there are still many more important features missing, but potentially this looks like a powerful product that is highly extensible. 
 
Check [...]

A few months ago, Alex asked a bunch of J!Day Organisers if they would be able to contribute even a bit more on Event related topics, something like a Mentoring Task. Well, at this time I couldn’t imagine where this will lead too. Is it just a Task that give one even [...]

I wanted to point out outstanding community blog posts that might be worth your time to review.
Rob Clayburn has an exceptional post entitled Ajax templating within Joomla! which promises a jump start for developers looking to learn how to Ajax empower their MVC components for Joomla!. Tremendous post.
If you have not visited JFoobar please add [...]

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 was going to write a post called “How to Make a Great Bug Report” but then i realized that what I was going to say is really something more general, which is “How to understand Joomla problems that come up.” And I realized the same advice applies for JBS members and people building extensions.
First [...]

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!

Past year I have been to several Joomla!days and open source events. During these events one of the topics that’s comes back every time is Joomla! security. Looking at reports on the web and reports of security problems you can say that web security in general is an issue. A lot of reports about security [...]

We do translate Joomla! resources from English to our Native local language. The only difference is, it is translating on your own or in a team.
When you translate alone, you don’t have problems with resources synchronization, if you work with two people on translations, you could need tools for synchronizing resources and also versioning this resource.
Many of us [...]

This is my opening blog entry here what I would like to celebrate with a special topic. I will sketch you a picture about the popularity of Joomla! from the viewpoint of the languages.
The internationalization is a hinge of the Joomla! 1.5.x release. The user interface of Joomla! 1.5.x is available in dozens of translations. [...]