The Joomla! ® Community Magazine

2012 June

Summer of Opportunity

Summer of Opportunity
Where can a young university student or graduate participate in a prestigious summer project, create something original and new, learn from experienced mentorship, while proposing and determining his or her own specific idea? Joomla and the Google Summer of Code,…
Tagged under: Editors Introduction

Meet Joomla!'s 2012 Google Summer of Code Students

Elin Waring, Chad Windnagle, and Andy Tarr
I call it an opportunity and privilege to work with the Joomla community because I always feel like I’ve been given a chance learn first hand from other people. Working with the Google Summer of Code program this year is…
Tagged under: Feature Stories

Designing Joomla! Websites - Form vs Functionality

Designing Joomla! Websites - Form vs Functionality
I have found that as designers we are sometimes conflicted by the choice between form or functionality of a websites that we design. To capture or maintain the client’s glossy and shiny look-and-feel of the website, can easily overshadow the…
Tagged under: Designers

CMS Testing

CMS Testing
From early Mambo days until today, Joomla! has constantly amended and extended functionality. With Joomla! 1.5, quality and user experience changed to the better, and it did so with version 2.5. Moving to GitHub has made it easier to contribute…
Tagged under: Developers

RFP's, Proposals, and Contracts – Part 2

RFP's, Proposals, and Contracts – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series we discussed the fundamental differences in the types of information requests we receive. In this article we will discuss the proposal writing process itself and how you can increase your chances of becoming the…
Tagged under: Business Matters

Joomla and Beyond, My First Experience

Original Photo By Joe Sonne
My first experience at a J and Beyond conference was extraordinary. It was full of surprises and satisfying beyond expectations. Perhaps you should go to one.
Tagged under: Feature Stories

Hurt Me Plenty

Me, Blasting Chain Gun Wielding Zombies
I've been playing Doom 2 quite a bit lately. It's an old first person shooter, released in 1994, in which the player navigates through a hellish landscape fighting monsters.
Tagged under: Feature Stories