Feature Stories
Tuesday, 01 July 2014 00:00
Thanks to the Joomla! Event Travel (JET) Program
I would like to share my first J and Beyond event experience with you, the Joomla! community.
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2014 July
Sunday, 01 June 2014 00:00
European Community Leadership Summit – Berlin, Germany
Building on the great success of the collaborative approach at CMS Africa, Ben van t'Ende – Community Manager at Typo3 – set about organising a European Community Leadership Summit to bring together community leaders and managers from all kinds of projects around Europe to share knowledge, ideas and inspiration.
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2014 June
Thursday, 01 May 2014 00:00
Welcome Sarah Watz, New OSM President
On April 8, Open Source Matters, Inc. elected its new president, Sarah Watz. Sarah had served on the board for two years, leading the Certification program effort before taking on this new role.
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2014 May
Thursday, 01 May 2014 00:00
Tracking the Trends of Joomla
A couple of days ago I came across yet another article announcing the decline of Joomla and the ascension of WordPress. As an admirer of the author's past work and presentations, at first I expected this would be some kind of fun article. I was astonished to read a serious article, where WordPress, Wix, Orkut, Facebook, journalists, and digital media agencies were cited as an anticipation of Joomla's demise.
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2014 May
Tuesday, 01 April 2014 00:00
Case Study - CrimeSuspect.Net
How does one build a website for crowd-sourcing citizens and law enforcement agencies to better fight crime? With Joomla! of course! “You can’t outrun the click of a mouse…”
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2014 April
Saturday, 01 February 2014 00:00
Interview with Chad Windnagle
One of the most exciting areas of involvement for Joomla has been the participation of young Joomla programmers in Google Summer of Code. Their work has helped to make the software better, and has contributed to numerous articles in this magazine detailing their projects. Chad Windnagle has been coordinating this effort for the past couple of years, and he kindly took the time to sit down for an interview...
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2014 February
Saturday, 01 February 2014 00:00
Women in Joomla!
The last two weeks were very interesting for me. I've gotten involved in the Joomla! Marketing team, and as my first assignment, I got to know a few very inspiring women who are part of the Joomla! Leadership.
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2014 February
Saturday, 01 February 2014 00:00
What Exactly Goes Into Making a Release of the CMS?
Last summer, I was lucky enough to inherit many of the responsibilities as it pertains to coordinating and executing releases of the Joomla! CMS. Little did I know at the time, but there are a lot of details and individuals involved in the full release cycle. So, what exactly goes into making a release of the CMS?
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2014 February
Wednesday, 01 January 2014 00:00
Joomla!-Based New Year's Resolution Ideas
Instead of the normal, common New Year's resolutions so many attempt to attain like shedding some pounds, eating better and curbing work-o-holic tendencies, I've come up with a few Joomla-based resolutions that are EASY to attain.
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2014 January
Sunday, 01 December 2013 00:00
WordPress and Drupal at the Joomla! World Conference
The 2nd Joomla! World Conference was held last month. Last year in San Jose there were keynote speakers from major open source names such as MySQL and Mozilla. This year the team went a step further and invited a speaker from WordPress. Matt Mullenweg is one of the two co-founders of WordPress and also the founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com.
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2013 December