Feature Stories
Wednesday, 01 June 2011 15:47
Unconference about taking Joomla! Forward at J and Beyond 2011
I am no singer, nor a designer and definitely not a writer. That said I got the opportunity to write this article after the unconference at J! And Beyond 2011. It was requested by the audience that someone compile and contribute this article to the Joomla! Community Magazine, June issue.
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2011 June
Wednesday, 01 June 2011 00:00
Happy Birthday, JPeople!
The month of May marked the first anniversary of JPeople, also known as The People Site. Please join me with a look in looking back at this amazing year and celebrate the accomplishments that have happened right here in our Social Network.
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2011 June
Wednesday, 01 June 2011 00:00
Discover over 1800 government sites built in Joomla!
March 2011. Ryan Ozimek is talking with the people at NASA, representing our beloved C1.5MS, when they pop “the question”. “So, yeah. The White House site is built on Drupal. Can you top that?”
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2011 June
Sunday, 01 May 2011 16:12
Joomla! Voices Heard Around the World
The Joomla! Community is a thriving bunch of Open Source loving geeks. We share code and experiences virtually in forums, social media sites, skype chats and various places around the web each and every day. Every once in a while, we actually get together for some training and fellowship with other Joomla! community members through Joomla! User Groups and JoomlaDay events throughout the world.
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2011 May
Sunday, 01 May 2011 00:00
Push me, pull you...
Joomla! is free and open-source, but it is also a huge commercially driven multi-million dollar ecosystem. The majority of Joomla! volunteers have strong commercial interest in Joomla! and have their own personal motivation when it comes to Joomla!. This is not a bad thing but managing all these “forces” pushing and pulling Joomla! in “different” directions is a challenge. Here are my thoughts on a different management approach that could help our project overcome these challenges.
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2011 May
Friday, 01 April 2011 00:00
Multi-Language Websites with Joomla! 1.6 core
Approximately 3000-6000 languages are spoken by humans for thousands of years. The picture shows Cuneiform, the earliest form of written expression. When I see this picture it is not that far away from the design of a website, even the ‘design’ is 5000 years old. The spoken language died out around the 18th century BC, but still today Cuneiform exists in Unicode ( U+12000–U+1236E (879 characters) ). That means it would be possible to create a Joomla! website in Cuneiform.
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2011 April
Friday, 01 April 2011 00:00
The Source April 2011
Welcome to the source update for April 2011. This is a new column to give you information about what's happening with Joomla! source code.
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2011 April
Friday, 01 April 2011 00:00
The J!OSCAR awards - recognizing excellence in the Joomla! community
The Joomla! project has won numerous awards such as Best Linux/Open Source Project, Best CMS and more recently being inducted into the CMS Hall of Fame. In contrast, the people who build, develop for, implement and write about Joomla lack an awards ceremony to recognize their contributions and efforts. To fill this gap, the Joomla! Open Source Creative and Artistic Recognition awards were created in 2010 at the J! and Beyond conference in Wiesbaden, Germany. The singular power of the J!OSCARs lies in the fact that it is a peer-based initiative: anyone in the community can submit a site, project/extension or person for an award.
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2011 April
Friday, 01 April 2011 00:00
Convincing the Skeptics about Open Source and CMS
Since the dawn of Joomla! around 2005, there has long been a stigma that open source and freely available content managment systems are a ‘poor man’s’ web design tool.
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2011 April
Tuesday, 01 March 2011 00:00
Interview with Matt Lipscomb - Broadcasting Joomla!
Matt Lipscomb is a member of the Community Leadership Team (CLT), Co-Manager of the Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED) and the Joomla! Resources Directory (JRD). In his day job he is Creative Director for USA Freelancers, a Joomla! web design team.
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2011 March
