Desktop Content Manager - JDAP1_v0.2 released

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:13:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

I am pleased to bring to you the second alpha version of JoomlaDesktopApp1 or JDAP1, which is based on the first approach(web browser approach-- refer to specs page) . I have included some new features in it and have also tried to remove the shortcomings of the previous release.

The main features of this version are:

Multi-tabbing facility to edit multiple sites simultaneously.
Improved JavaScript handling.
A Notebook tab that

Taxonomy Extension - beta release

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:10:00 +0000

I am happy to announce the beta release of Taoxnomy Extension for Joomla! 1.6 here.

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/953-taxonomy-extension-beta-release.html

One Month into Multi-site

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:09:00 +0000

It's been over a month since Google Summer of Code 2009 kicked off and I wanted to give the community a status update on the Multi-site project. If you aren't familiar with the project you can see the project details here.

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/952-one-month-into-multi-site.html

Andrew Eddie to Give Live Video Presentation of Joomla 1.6

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:50:00 +0000

If you've been reading the Tweets about the Joomla! 1.6 development work in the past few weeks (hint: search for #Joomla16 on Twitter for more real-time information), you've undoubtedly seen the Joomla development team is working hard to push forward on the newest Joomla release. To help give more insight into what's being developed, Andrew Eddie will be presenting some of the key features of the Joomla 1.6 release at the upcoming Joomla! User Group (JUG) Brisbane Australia.

7th July at 7.00pm Brisbane time GMT+10 (7th July, 10:00am UTC)

Groups Updates

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:01:00 +0000

Hello everyone,

Firstly I apologise for having being not able to write for a long time, but was caught up with my exams so

everything else just became impossible. Trying to make up for the lost time during exams wherein I could work little,

this week is really going to be tough for me, but I love it. So its okay :).

The first month was a slow and easy ride for me, mostly spent for learning and experimenting. But then now the bumpy ride

has begun.

I had basically implemented listing of groups in backend and frontend. Apart

Back!

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:16:00 +0000

Hello

Its been a long time since I blogged.Lately this has become my catchphrase.I sure hope it ends here ;)

Had been caught up with my exams and could'nt blog at all.Now that they are over and holidays are here,I'm pretty sure things will change and I will have all of my time for the project.

So,first a recap of things we've got so far(tested and working).

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/948-back.html

GSoC 2009: Survey component updates

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:43:00 +0000

It was a long time ago when I posted updates on the status of my survey extension. Unfortunately June was a busy month for me, I had many exams and I was also working on Joomla! 1.6. But finally I have time to work on the survey component and to make up for the work.

Current status

Currently the administration interface of the component basically works, there are some elements which are missing on edit pages, but it's easy to add elements to existing and working forms. Mainly I was working on the relations of the different parts

GSOC 2009: Joomla! LDAP Integration Updates

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:14:00 +0000

The LDAP User Component and Plugin is ready for the testing.

Admin need not provide what kind of backend LDAP implementation(e.g. AD or OpenLDAP) the joomla is using.

I tested it for Microsoft AD 2003 and OpenLDAP. And seems work fine for the configuration.

Following are the snapshots of my test configurations.

Microsoft Active Directory 2003  LDAP Configuration  http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/945-tabs-come-to-the-accessible-administrator-template.html

GSOC JConnect Status Update 3

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:03:00 +0000

It's ready

JConnect - The Integration Engine for Joomla is now pretty much ready. (OK we say it BETA). Before we going into much details lets talk about it's features. It can do following with it's External Applications.. (Currently only Elgg)

Dual-way communication..
whatever the changes you made to a user(Create,Update,Delete) it'll affect to Both Joomla and ExApp. no mater where you made it (inside Joomla or Elgg)
Bulk User Synchronization
you can synchronize users in many numbers between Joomla and

Workflow extension [ BETA ]

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:55:00 +0000

I'll start by explaining how the extension works , I won't dive into any technical details

This extension allows website administrator to define a workflow "i.e a process" of content publishing, Let's consider a scenario where the administrator runs a magazine with 3 content categories, Each one of these categories is managed by a team.

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/942-workflow-extension-beta-.html

JED to be 100% GPL at Midnight

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:36:00 +0000

We at the Joomla Extensions Directory are celebrating the next phase of our commitment to the GPL values that Joomla was founded on. As part of an overall movement toward embracing and encouraging use of the GPL in all aspects of the project, the JED announced in December 2008 that only GNU GPL extensions would be listed as of July 1. We have led up to this policy change slowly, and we hope with as much information

New webmasters appointed for the community site

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:16:00 +0000

About 6 weeks ago Brad (S&I) posted a call for volunteers on the Joomla! homepage. We, from S&I, received quite a number of applications and there were very suitable applicants among them. Our goal, to get two new webmasters for the community.joomla.org site, improving site maintenance in overall.

I'm very pleased to announce that this call for volunteers worked out great. We can now introduce to you

Joomla! 1.5.12 Released

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:46:00 +0000

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.12 [Wojmamni Ama Woi]. This release contains a number of bug fixes and three moderate-level security fixes. It has been less than a month since Joomla 1.5.11 was released on June 3, 2008.

This release marks an important milestone

Multilingual CiviCRM: Changes to Translation Tools

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:44:00 +0000

All of my work on multilingual CiviCRM features, while required by many worldwide, cross-border and/or multi-cultural organisations, would be in vain if it weren’t for the hard and very under-appreciated work of numerous translators, contributing many man-hours to over thirty CiviCRM translations hosted on our translations server – hence one of my Google Summer of Code sub-projects was to ease the translators’ work as much as possible.

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/939-multilingual-civicrm-changes-to-translation-tools.html

Module editing at the frontend

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:43:00 +0000

After last week's post, I've now completed editing of module parameters in a modal popup. Edit icons appear next to the module titles which can be clicked to edit the module parameters. I've deliberately disallowed editing of advanced and other parameters from the modal popup at the front-end to avoid complexity. If it is a custom HTML module, then its content can also be edited via the modal popup.

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/936-module-editing-at-the-frontend.html

What You Want From Your Desktop Content Manager

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:06:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

As I have foretold in my last blog that I am working over a Desktop App which will serve as an interface to J! installation, I would now request you to help me in this context. When I submitted my specs I was asked about the features I would like to add apart from the one which the app intends to do. The best answer to this question can be given only by the end-users. So I think its better to ask the customers i.e. community what they want . Hence I would request you to list all the features which you would like your Desktop Frontend to have as comments to this blog. I

Thanks for joomla.asia

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:53:00 +0000

Just a quick 'thank you' to Akarawuth Tamrareang for recently donating the domain joomla.asia to the Joomla project. While we don't plan to at this stage run a separate website, it's nice to know that top level domains like this belong to the Joomla project. Sadly, many people try to misuse domains on the back of the success of the Joomla name.

Akarawuth Tamrareang (aka Krit) has been apart of our community since the beginning, and again, can we just thank him for this gesture. He originally secured the domain

Joomla Project Leadership

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:55:00 +0000

Today we are proud to announce an important shift in the organisation and governance of the Joomla Project. This change is focused on making it easier to fulfill our mission, achieve our vision and remain true to our values.

Firstly, we are simplifying the current Working Group structure. Secondly, we are changing the leadership and management of the project in a way that provides a more open and flexible structure. Thirdly, we are

[Demo] J!Mint SSO

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:37:00 +0000

This is my first blog for GSoC 2009. It's kinda a bit late compared to other 17 students. :) I had a school event that I needed to attend at the end of May, so I just could started on June 3rd..

First of all, this integration project is really challenging I have to say. Luckily I have some experience with Magento, so that didn't hold me back much. However, to come up with a solution for SSO, it took me quite a while learning and trying out new stuff.

Features :
- Cross-domain SSO, which means that we still have two separated systems running, a Joomla site and

Joomla! 1.5.12 Release Candidate Now Available

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:51:00 +0000

The Joomla Project needs your help in testing our next release—Joomla 1.5.12 RC. This release has 22 bug fixes and two updates are significant enough to warrant community testing. This includes an upgrade to TinyMCE and changes to the framework PHPMailer class.

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/930-joomla-1512-release-candidate-now-available.html

Making it easier for everybody

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:46:00 +0000

It's been a tough last month, but now my two last math exams are finally over, and I'm focusing the scathered remains of brain activity on JDevTools, trying to make up for the time lost in rehearsal of Greens formula and the like. Fortunately the time hasn't been lost completely as I've made it a habit to start my day walking the 5 kilometers to school on the banks of Lac Leman, thinking about the project and how I would attack it once I could get coding again.

A topic that has special interest at this point in the phase has been the script engine. As many of you hopefully knows,

CiviCRM: Automatic translation porting between CiviCRM releases

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:12:00 +0000

One of the issues with maintaining parallel localisation branches (like CiviCRM does, maintaining up-to-date localisations for both the CiviCRM 2.1 and CiviCRM 2.2 lines) is the problem of making translations added to one of the branches to appear on the other. I finally managed to code a system that automates this – read on for details.

Read original post at source site... http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/927-civicrm-automatic-translation-porting-between-civicrm-releases.html

Leisa Reichelt: Invite to Open Source Designers

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:47:00 +0000

Leisa Reichelt, an expert with over 10 years experience working with usability and information architecture, has been co-leading the Drupal 7 User Experience Project. Recently, Leisa created an Open Source Designers and User Experience Community in Ning and has extended an invitation to all working in the field from our various free

Andrew Eddie on The Joomla Podcast "The community is the development team now."

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:18:00 +0000

I wanted to point out two great interviews by Mike Brogan with Andrew Eddie on The Joomla! Podcast.

The first interview covers some of Andrew's professional background and interesting history on the Joomla! project, leading up to a discussion on Joomla! 1.6.

In the

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