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Not Too Late To Register For CMS Expo

jansen.wilco@gmail.com (Wilco Jansen) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:09:17 +0000

CMS Expo expects approximately 300 attendees to attend its 4th conference for web businesspeople, users and designers. To be held for three days, May 3rd through 5th, the CMS Expo will feature Joomla! along with three other CMSes - Drupal, Plone and WordPress.

CMS Expo started just three years ago in Chicago. It grew from one day of Joomla training in 2008 to two days; and this year, they've grown again to a three full days of Joomla! training! That's 12 sessions of Joomla, for users of all levels, in addition to several sessions on extensions and add-ons such as FlexiContent, Tienda, RocketTheme's Gantry Framework and more.

This year, CMS Expo will feature OSM Board President Ryan Ozimek, who has been invited to keynote the CMS Expo, as well as present a Joomla! Roadmap Session. Ryan will join leaders from other major OS CMSes, including Drupal's Dries Buytaert, and Plone's Alex Limi and Alan Runyan. Founders and leaders from other major CMSes will be on-hand as well, including eZ Systems, Hippo CMS, Alfresco and ImpressCMS.

The four featured Learning Tracks for CMS Expo in 2010 are Joomal! Drupal, Plone and WordPress.

CMS Expo is a great place to meet over 50 CMS experts from around the world, all in a business casual atmosphere, in the spirit of open source, presenting on a multitude of relevant and timely subjects. See the CMS Expo website for the long list of learning sessions and speakers. It's amazing!

It's truly an intellectual braintrust you won't find anywhere else in the world. You're invited to be an important part of it, and join the CMS Community at CMS Expo.

It's not too late to register for CMS Expo! Tickets are just $279 / day or $779 for all 3 days.

Details:

CMS Expo Learning and Business Conference
When: May 3rd, 4th and 5th 2010
Where: Evanston, Illinois
Web Site: http://CMSExpo.net
Tickets: http://cmsx.us/tix
Phone: (815) 455-2900

eZ Publish design contest for the community portal

robin.muilwijk@telfort.nl (Robin Muilwijk) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:00:00 +0000

With the recent launch of eZ Publish's new Community Portal, it is time to call for all designers to take out their pencils and paper. It is time for a design contest!

If you have creativity running through your veins, and want to see your design applied to the new community portal at http://share.ez.no, do not wait any longer, participate, have fun and as a result get your creativity exposed to the broad audience of the eZ Publish Community and... get rewarded for your work :)

The eZ Publish community portal is where 35000+ members are registered, a fair amount of them stepping by daily to share ideas, experiences, code, translations, knowledge, tips & tricks and fun around eZ Publish. How about all of them seeing, every day, a "Designed by " plastered on all pages ?

The full description of the contest conditions, the functional brief and the wireframes are presented here : http://share.ez.no/design-contest While the 3 best designs are rewarded, the winner will receive :

A Wacom Intuos Medium design tablet
A free entry to the eZ Conference in june in Berlin

Robin Muilwijk,
Member of the community-driven share.ez.no team

eZ Publish is an Open Source Content Management System chosen by thousands of enterprises and organizations world wide. It helps you build corporate websites, intranets, webshops and media portals. eZ Publish is 100% Open Source.

Profilers, profiles and profiling

jansen.wilco@gmail.com (Wilco Jansen) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:22:54 +0000

It has been a while since I have been able to write any kind of blog due to insane busy schedule and lots of travel (almost Platinum member in less then 4 months :-D). Having some days off (and with that time to start writing) I ran into a discussion on the Joomla CMS development mailing list talking about the performance of Joomla 1.6 compared to Joomla 1.5. I replied with a very short hierarchical map of a basic page view that was created with Xdebug for profiling a simple profile snapshot.

In this article I want to explain the basics of profiling and profiling tools available in Joomla and PHP. In follow up articles I will explain the usage of the tools presented in this blog. I will also try to set up a performance analyses so we can see what the state of Joomla 1.6 is, but that is also for later concern. This article is based on tools that are freely available for almost all platforms.

Merry Christmas from the JFoobar team

a.radtke@derauftritt.de (Angie Radtke) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Mister Joomla turns 40...happy birthday Robin from the JFoobar team!

jansen.wilco@gmail.com (Wilco Jansen) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

For me it is still amazing to see this guy going strong after 4 years running around as Robin Hood of the Joomla project. Today is a special day; Robin Muilwijk former forum moderator and all times top poster (15.107 posts) has turned 40. Congratulations Robin with reaching this milestone and that new suit looks pretty awesome, hope it is not the new EzPublish power-suit because then the other CMS projects are in deep trouble :-D

What if your buttons don' t work in Eclipse?

jansen.wilco@gmail.com (Wilco Jansen) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:14:25 +0000

Some time ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 64bits so I can use all 8Gb of RAM on board. All my applications work like a charm, the new Virtualbox 3.1 is even nicer but when I installed Eclipse PDT I noticed a problem with the buttons in screens after I tried to get the Subclipse application installed in the PDT installation...nothing worked!

So I needed to move to command line Subversion management since that doesn't come out of the box with Eclipse PDT. Very annoying, because I use the Subclipse add-on not only for committing, exporting or merging, I also use it to check certain commits with the history option, and most important I am lazy by nature (all coders seem to suffer from that habit). Posted a question on the Eclipse forum and sadly got no reply, but today I found the answer to my problems from which obviously more people suffer.

Create the shell script below, and this problem is fixed.

#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
{path to you eclipse install}/eclipse

Back to coding :-D

Find your way around at eZ Systems

robin.muilwijk@telfort.nl (Robin Muilwijk) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:00:00 +0000

This post aims at people and/or community members that are new and recently discovered ez Systems and it's products such as eZ Publish. Hopefully this post will act as a guide to all available sites and more important the available information and where to find it.

I have no words for Joomla! Leadership and OSM ignorance and failure

arno.alvaana@gmail.com (Arno Zijlstra) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:22:51 +0000

no words

Joomla! goes iPhone

wolfgang.disch@gmx.de (Wolfgang Disch) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:26:06 +0000

The way a website should look and behave in a mobile device is significantly different than how it does on a PC display. According to the principle "Write Once, Publish Everywhere" we don’t want to force users to maintain multiple copies of every page. That would be disgustingly inefficient, particulary for a site based on Joomla!

I want to present you a proposal which is based on a template and on a module which shows arcticles from your Joomla! website.

The template itself is made up of iPhone-optimized code including the iUI-Library of Joe Hewitt.This library helps the website to emulate a native iPhone App by using Javascript and CSS. Its goal is simply to turn ordinary standards-based HTML into a polished, usable interface that maps to iPhone interface conventions. You know from standard Apps the sliding pages, a header with Back-button and a menu, which is able to reload items using AJAX.

The big advantage is to load several iPhone pages at the same time so you have no delay when you navigate from page to page. This gives you a better useability especially when you are using EDGE connections. With not more than 16k the template is lightweight and fast.

Native e-commerce coming to a Joomla! near you!

arno.alvaana@gmail.com (Arno Zijlstra) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:35:03 +0000

Until now there hasn't been a real effort to create a Joomla! 1.5 native e-commerce platform but that's about to change. While there is an enormous need for such a system it is also a huge task to build. E-commerce is something different than running a website presenting content, it involves things like inventory and catalog management, customer management, payment handling and strong analytics options.

I've been involved in serious e-commerce quite a bit at a company that ran a whole portfolio of large stores with many millions of revenue and have learned that e-commerce isn't just simply putting some products online and wait for customers to come by. E-commerce is a very active task and requires dedication and active marketing efforts to get the most out of your sales process. An important part of this overall active store management are the tools you have available to run your store, the e-commerce platform.

Dioscouri is a well established name in the Joomla! world for delivering great products and with those products a very solid support process. They've taken up the task to build the first Joomla! native full featured e-commerce platform and I've been talking to Rafael and Vika who lead Dioscouri about this platform extensively and I'm very exited about it.