Community Magazine

The last four years has seen quite a lot of excitement in the Joomlasphere as the community continues to grow and the software continues to be driven by innovative ideas. As with everything in a quickly evolving software marketplace, platforms come and go and Joomla! 2.5 is no different. Today we reflect back on its nearly four year life span and the framework it laid for Joomla to grow.

Delivering transactional emails is considered one of the most recursive and important tasks for a website owner. If your transactional emails fail to reach recipients’ inbox, it will be difficult for you to have the benefits of an automated email transaction. An automated email transaction is heavily dependent on a reliable SMTP server. However, using an ordinary email service provider such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Hotmail has its restrictions. This is because they allow only a certain number of emails to be sent by a particular user per day. You might be thinking what is a smart solution for transactional email delivery and how to configure it?

Coming home from the sunny beaches in Mexico after the Joomla! World Conference, returning to your home desks and daily life…

It all started with this email: Congratulations! we are pleased to inform you that you have been selected to participate in the Joomla Event Travel Program (JET) and attend the Joomla World Conference (JWC14) in Cancun from November 7 to 9, 2014! Needless to say, my joy was great because I was going to meet people with whom I am friends and share on forums, chats, hangouts etc... I would also get to see people I met at the last conference in Boston, Massachusetts JWC 2013. In short, I could not hide my joy to have been selected to go to Mexico to meet people just as passionate as I am about Joomla.

Tout a commencé par cet e-mail : Félicitations! nous sommes heureux de vous informer que vous avez été sélectionné pour participer au programme Joomla Event Travel (JET) et assister à la Joomla World Conference (JWC14) à Cancun du 7 au 9 novembre 2014 ! Inutile de dire que ma joie était immense car j’allais retrouver des personnes avec qui j'ai sympathisé et échangé sur les forums, chats, hangouts etc... Il y avait aussi des personnes rencontrés à la dernière conférence à Boston Massachussets JWC 2013 que je souhaitais revoir. Bref, je ne cache pas ma joie d'avoir été sélectionné pour partir au Mexique pour rencontrer des gens toujours aussi passionnés par Joomla.

Michael Babker has been specializing in Joomla based development and contributing to Open Source for more than four years. He was an active member of the Production Leadership Team recently, and now works on CMS Joomla code as a volunteer. I was happy to ask him some questions related to technical features and the entire development process which should be interesting to read for any developer.

It is very common to have issues like browser does not serves the latest javascript or stylesheet content, it serves the content from its cache which obviously does not contains the recent changes. The first solution which comes in our mind is to clean the browser cache and all sorted... right?. But you can not apply the same solution at your users’ end.

Don't like how translations are handled in Joomla\DateTime? Maybe you want to change some functionality for date calculations? Ok, that's not a problem. Let's customize your DateTime objects.

Un asunto peliagudo puede ser cuando tenemos un blog o una web muy avanzada y tenemos necesidad de cambiar de un servidor a otro. Esto puede deberse a múltiples razones, como que el hosting nos ofrece un espacio en disco muy limitado, nos sale constantemente el error 503 de servidor no disponible, o simplemente que la página ha crecido tanto que necesitamos más recursos.

We’re used to seeing all Joomla community members attending only Joomla events. Nowadays that’s changing. David Hurley and Michael Babker are representing Joomla at a global event, the PHP World Conference mid-November. They will not only represent Joomla, but will also try to attract new members to the community. That’s worthy of an interview.