- Joomla! Community Magazine | February 2011
The February issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!IN THIS ISSUE:
Thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month’s issue: Manolis Markatselas, Peter Bui, Jarrod Nettles, Anh Tuan Bui, and Nicholas Dionysopoulos.
Editor’s Introduction
Coming together to announce a new era… by Paul Orwig
Feature stories
Dianne Henning introduces us to a developer who is equally talented and helpful in her Born to be wild: An Interview with Chris Marinou.
Alice Grevet unveils how all the great Joomla! 1.6 launch content came into existence in Kyle Ledbetter: King of the launch room.
Jon Neubauer highlights the crucial work being undertaken to simplify migrations from Joomla! 1.5-1.6 in Developing jUpgrade: An interview with Matias Aguirre.
International stories
Manolis Markatselas has submitted an article in the Greek language for this issue.
Opportunities are now open for community members to submit articles in 17 different languages.
Leadership Connections
OSM board member Alice Grevet shares some updates on what OSM has been doing during January on behalf of the Joomla! project.
CLT member Matt Lipscomb takes us behind the scenes one final time at Joomla! Day West 2010: The 2010 Video Interviews — Final selection.
Website Case Studies
Peter Bui invites you to pass judgement on the Joomla! solutions implemented on the High Court of Australia website.
JUGs and Events
Alice Grevet shares her experiences in connecting with Joomla! 1.6 celebrations all over the world in Let Them Eat Cake!.
Developers Workbench
Jarrod Nettles shares with us his perspectives on how to maintain your sanity by keeping your code in a single library across multiple projects in Rapid Development Techniques: Removing Mootools.
Did you know…?
Anh Tuan Bui shares some really helpful links in Good resources for Joomla! beginners.
Designer’s studio
Anthony Olsen shares a lot of great ideas in Fourteen secrets of Joomla! templating.
Administrator’s toolkit
Nicholas Dionysopoulos asks some hard questions and reveals some possible pitfalls in How off-line is Joomla!’s off-line mode?.
Joomla! in the Press/Media
Mark Bender bring us Joomla! in the Press/Media — February 2011.
On the lighter side…
Yepr has contributed another Jane Beyond and friends cartoon.
The Joomla! Haiku: Share yours!
Prolific poets,
punsters and word masters too,
spread the Joomla! love…
Post your February 2011 Haiku here!
IN OUR NEXT ISSUE
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!
- Joomla!® 1.6 Has Arrived!
This new version of Joomla includes more power, more control, and more options than ever before.
Rebuilt from the ground up in much of the application, this latest Joomla release will delight the casual site builder while helping small, medium, and enterprise businesses succeed in delivering web sites, intranets and applications to their respective markets.
Delivering power through simplicity, Joomla 1.6 ensures its place as the popular CMS of its kind. Joomla 1.6 delivers new features to end-users and site administrators including:
- Finer access controls for viewing and editing content with configurable user groups and viewing levels
- A user-defined category structure, from simple one-level to complex multi-level categories
- Installation improvements allowing for multiple extension installations in one package, updatable with a single click
- Expanded language support for easy production of multi-lingual sites
- Start and end publishing times for modules with more control over where they display,
- Fresh new templates and semantic markup to please the eye as well as the search engines
- More creative control through template styles
- Hundreds of additional features, streamlining workflow and productivity
With Joomla 1.6 developers will build extensions faster through all phases of design, deployment and updates.
Advanced and rich API’s will provide new opportunities to integrate, compete and expand into existing and new markets.
Style improvements give graphic designers more control and more flexibility to create the perfect effect for any web site and audience. Designers can now override virtually all output from the Joomla Administrator giving rise to new opportunities for functional, accessible or even mobile-friendly Administrator areas. Individual Administrator templates can be assigned to individual users allowing web masters to address any special needs.
To learn more, or to get started building your own Joomla 1.6 web site visit joomla.org/16 and download one of the world’s most popular free Open Source content management systems.
We invite you to join the entire Joomla project in celebrating the arrival of Joomla 1.6.
Most importantly, congratulations to the hundreds of volunteers whose enormous effort contributed to its final release.
Discuss this announcement on JPeople
The following translations of this Announcement are available:
Thank you to the Translation Teams for their help!
- The Offical Joomla! Book is Available at Amazon
In October 2010 Joomla!Press, an alliance between Open Source Matters and Pearson Publishing, was announced to the community.Now, The Joomla! Project is proud to announce that the Official Joomla! Book, the first in the series of publications, was released for sale at Amazon and InformIT on December 23, 2010. The same day the book was rated #2 on the Hot New Releases in Programming list from Amazon.ca and #40 on the Bestsellers list in programming.
Today Amazon.com released a Kindle version of the Official Joomla! Book available for purchase.
Purchases of Joomla!Press books are a great way to help support Joomla as proceeds from books, including The Official Joomla! Book, go to the Joomla! project. To learn more about Joomla! Press please click here.
Get the Book!
- Joomla! Community Magazine | January 2011
A special thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month’s issue: Theo van der Zee.
Editor’s Introduction
Joomla! — We Keep It Movin’ by Cristina Solana
Feature stories
Alice Grevet invites us to Party Like It’s Joomla! 1.6
Jon Neubauer invokes Camelot: Ask not what Joomla! can do for you…
Matt Lipscomb offers up more Insights From: «The Official Joomla! Book» (Part 3)Leadership Connections
Alice Grevet maps out the New Year with Open Source Matters: December 2010 Report
Matt Lipscomb talks with Paul Orwig, Sandra Warren, Ron Severdia and Louis Landry:The 2010 Video Interviews — Part 3Website Case Studies
Robert Vining looks at migrating/upgrading from Mambo to Joomla! in this month’s Website Case Study: Kineo E-Learning
Extensions and Services Evaluations
Team EAsE sez: Back it up, back it up, back it up! Backup Now! — You know you should!
Team EAsE Podcast: Passwords — Don’t walk in front of a Bus!JUGs and Events
Jon Neubauer gets the inside scoop on JAB11: Interview with Robert Deutz & Brian Teeman
Dianne Henning sends out a casting call for your Joomla! videos with Lights, Camera, Action!Did you know…?
Milena Mitova makes it look as easy as ABC with her Tried and Tested Tools for Building a Teacher-Friendly School Website
Theo van der Zee shares some Zen enlightenment and explains What Joomla! and Bonsai Trees Have In CommonDesigner’s studio
Anthony Olsen offers his Top 10 Joomla! Template Picks for 2010
Administrator’s toolkit
Nicholas Dionysopoulos takes us to the dark world of ownership, users, groups and permissions. 777: The number of the beast
Book Reviews
Bo Astrup reviews ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! Site Cookbook which serves up some tasty recipes for successful form configuration and implementation.
Joomla! in the Press/Media
Mark Bender logs in with Joomla! in the Press/Media — January 2011
On the lighter side…
Yepr pops a cork with Jane Beyond & friends
The Joomla! Haiku: Share yours!
Prolific poets, punsters and word masters too,
spread the Joomla! love… Post your Haiku here for January 2011 This month’s theme: Resolutions!
IN OUR NEXT ISSUE
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!
- Joomla 1.6 RC1 Now Available
The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 RC1 (download). This is our first — and we hope only — release candidate. IMPORTANT NOTE: This is still an evaluation version and is not intended for running a production site.
Before the release of 1.6.0, we will be performing a security audit of version 1.6. It is anticipated that there will be additional security fixes applied to version 1.6 RC1 before the release of 1.6.0.
Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 15 release on 29 November, we have fixed approximately 121 issues in the tracker. We have closed an additional 46 tracker issues.
At the present time, we have no High or Medium High issues in the tracker, which is why we are able to release 1.6 Release Candidate 1. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work!
See the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release.
What’s next?
This is the first — and we hope — only release candidate release. We plan to release version 1.6.0 on 10 January 2011, assuming we don’t find any High or Medium High issues that we are unable to fix before then.
Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5560
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