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Hi everyone! How are things going? I'm Zehan Zhao, a JGSoC 2014 student. Here I am with the latest status update post on my ongoing project for JIssues tracker.

When developing new features, or when changing some settings, one must always ask, does the site perform slower or faster than before?

In continuation with first post in series of three for the project “Framework Unit Testing”, in this one I will talk about unit testing specifically for php libraries. This post is mainly divided into two parts, one is for php unit testing and another on the project update. Feel free to skip any or all part(s).

This article will take a closer look at the problems and solutions related to Microdata and RDFa and why a simple problem isn't so simple.

GSoC 2014 - SQL Optimization Project for Joomla CMS was the project I am involving at the moment. After spending more time on getting familiar with the Joomla core at the moment I have implemented several queries and hope to carry out the project in order to meet the final outcome.

Hello folks! I am currently working on this project, writing testing scripts for Joomla CMS. I have spent enough time on understanding the Joomla testing code base and I hope to improve it and increse its coverage so that I do not leave any area untested. I hope to complete my project within the timeline I have provided.

The goal is to implement Microdata semantics in the CMS using the JMicrodata library, and create a RDFa library, so that you can choose the type of semantics to display: Microdata or RDFa.

In software development process one can not guarantee the correctness of a program. Though, through effective software testing, higher quality softwares could be delivered with more satisfied users, lower maintenance cost, more accurate and reliable results.

One of the best things about Joomla is its constant drive to innovate whilst maintaining a strong and enthusiastic developer base. And the time has arrived for an important new development - the new Model, View and Controller classes for components.

Joomla CMS being one of the top Content Management Systems in the world, we need to consider more about improving the speed of Joomla CMS. The major focus of my GSoC project is to ensure that the overheads in database interactions are reduced and improving the speed of Joomla CMS.