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Details: Written by: Robert Vining

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.

Details: Written by: Tuan Bui

What do you think about an E-mail Marketing component written just for Joomla! powered websites? If you own a Joomla! based website and you want to carry out E-mail Marketing Campaigns to boost your site’s image, components integrating E-mail Marketing services with Joomla! are highly recommended.

Details: Written by: Bo Astrup

Like the Joomla! Site Blueprints we reviewed earlier the Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook contains a step-by-step approach. With over 80 recipes for taking control of Joomla! extensions, this is a great book for getting to know many extensions. Again, I do recognize this is about J! 1.5 - 1.6 is out, but even today we see new extensions for 1.5 appearing in the Joomla! Extensions Directory.

Details: Written by: Merav Knafo

When it comes to creating an extension for Joomla — or any type of software — documentation will always be an important part of that extension’s success.

Details: Written by: Paul de Raaij

Joomla is a decent CMS with very nice features. It works great for the end user and has many components ready to use from the online world. What I don't like personally, as a developer, is the model implementation in Joomla. For me the way ' model and table' classes are implemented, just doesn't feel right to me. Also it is very difficult to get other models in a controller or an other model class. With Symfony I have worked with Doctrine regularly and in this blog I'll show you how to use Doctrine for your own component in Joomla. Doctrine is an Object Relational Mapping framework and offers you a persistence library. This not the holy grail and you should determine if you need the extra overhead and if you are comfortable with it.

Details: Written by: Mark W Bender

Welcome to Joomla! in the Press/Media. You will find links and short descriptions of where you can read recent articles about Joomla! in the Press and Media.

Details: Written by: Nicholas G. Antimisiaris

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.

Read more: Jane Beyond & friends

Details: Written by: Anthony Olsen

One of the things that tends to grab my attention browsing sites is the creative use of dates. It's not always appropriate, or even necessary, to get creative with date styling and in most cases, it is only relevant for blogs and perhaps even then, blogs written by creative people. But nonetheless, I love it when a designer puts an elegant or flamboyant touch into the design of their date elements.

Details: Written by: Robert Vining

The CMS Expo is one of the only conferences in the world that brings together many of today's top Content Management Systems under one roof. With more than 60 professional speakers and over 100 learning sessions scheduled over the 3-day event, May 2-4, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois, you can find information and training from some of the CMS industry's top professionals without sitting through an infomercial or someone selling their services on stage.

John and Linda Coonan are the event organizers and are avid Joomla! Community members themselves, through their work with the Chicago Joomla! Users Group and their annual CMSExpo Conference each year. We had the chance to sit down with John Coonen and ask him about the Joomla! powered CMS Expo website.

Details: Written by: Alice Grevet

April showers wouldn't bring May flowers without a little help from OSM.

Details: Written by: Hagen Graf

Unfortunately, I am not able to attend 2011 CMS Expo, USA (May 2-4) which seems to be a highly anticipated event in the fast-growth CMS Sector, and usually I write articles after attending a conference and not in advance, but in the Joomla!sphere, everything is a bit different these days. I assume many people will come directly from the CMS Expo to Europe for a truly unique event:

Details: Written by: Jon Neubauer

With so much happening in the Joomla! Community these days with all these brilliant people working on the new Joomla! Framework Project, and the geniuses adding great new features to the Joomla! CMS, I wanted to take a quick minute and highlight a crucial area of the of the Joomla! Project that everyone can help with, even folks like me who are pretty much useless when it comes to programming!

Details: Written by: Cristina Solana

A declaration of intent from an open source, front-end developer.

Joomla Community Magazine

Joomla! Voices Heard Around the World

Helpful E-mail Marketing Components for Joomla! Powered Websites

Review "Joomla! 1.5 Top Extensions Cookbook"

5 Ways to Document Your Joomla Extension

Using Doctrine ORM in Joomla!

Joomla! in the Press/Media - May 2011

Push me, pull you...

Organizing Dutch Joomla!days and back to life again

Jane Beyond & friends

How to put more love into your Joomla! dates...

Website Case Study: Joomla! Powers the CMS Expo

Open Source Matters: April 2011 Report

Awesomenimity at J and Beyond 2011

Wanted: The Average Joomla! User

The Sandbox Manifesto

Lessons about openness and transparency from a budget discussion

Post your Haikus for May

Samantha Farrell - Fade Away

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