Blog entries tagged development

Joomla 1.5.10 is on the way

Victor Drover — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:00:00 +0100

In case you hadn't heard, Joomla 1.5.10 looks to be ready soon.

Keep an eye on the Joomla Forum Announcements board for details and upgrade instructions.

Custom content creation, now for Joomla!

Victor Drover — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100

As a member of the editorial team at the Joomla Extension Directory, I see a lot of extensions in the course of a day. Many times these are helpful plugins or modules that make site maintenance a little easier or a little smarter. I love those gems.

But occassionally, an extension comes along that really looks promising and generates a lot of buzz in the Joomlasphere. The recently released social networking application JomSocial is one such extension that has taken the community by stoRead More...

Trials and tribulations of forum integration, part 27

Victor Drover — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100

So to give you some perspective, I've been trying to implement a seamlessly- integrated forum on this site for about 2 months now. I first started playing with it over the Christmas holidays and have been experimenting with it off-and-on ever since.

The problem is that I have been spoiled by the relative ease of integrating the SMF forum into Joomla 1.0. There is a very good extension available on that platform and, despite having to hack the core, it works near-flawlessly. Once i did sRead More...

How to pick a CMS

Victor Drover — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100

I've just read an interesting "anti-joomla" article called "How to choose the right CMS". While I don't agree with the broad-stroked advice of the author regarding Joomla, I was intrigued by some of the promising new CMS options out there.

In particular, I liked the look of Concrete5 CMS and the"What is concrete5" demo video got me even more interested after just the first 60 seconds.

Concrete5 make it very easy to test-drive their CMS on their dedicRead More...