Interview: Alex de Borba

Interview: Alex de Borba

On January 6th, I saw an interesting post on the Joomla Facebook group from Alex de Borba that began, "Let's start something different, shall we?". Alex was offering his help for anyone who had a question about Joomla. I read through the comments and was extremely impressed with his courteous, helpful and well-written replies. I asked him to get in touch with me if he would be interested in writing for the JCM. He did. Here is the interview I had with Alex, a bit long, but very informative. I look forward to his future articles.

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Revealing Joomla’s SEO Secrets - Redirect Manager (com_redirect)

Revealing Joomla’s SEO Secrets - Redirect Manager (com_redirect)

One of the hidden gems which appeared with the 1.6 version of Joomla is the Redirect Manager - a simple system which allows you to identify and fix broken links. Before the Redirect Manager was introduced, the only way to find and fix broken URLs was to use a third party extension, an SEO scraper such as Screaming Frog, or looking in your server logs. Now it's possible to identify and manage broken links within the administrator panel of your Joomla website.

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Notable Technical Women Card Decks

Notable Technical Women Card Decks

Last October, Sarah Watz and I represented Joomla at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing at Phoenix, Arizona.  A few booths down from our position was Duke University, which was launching a Kickstarter campaign to create a card deck and poster showcasing notable women in computing throughout the ages, it was fully funded within days, eventually closing at $15,010, 500% of its target. The card decks were also sent out to over 500 educators from around the world - people backing the project could opt for a 'get one, give one' option which sent a pack to an educator in additon to them receiving their own pack - and the project has continued to grow, now including daughter projects featuring upcoming leaders in the Middle East & Africa.

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Celebrate Pi Day at JoomlaDay Boston!

Celebrate Pi Day at JoomlaDay Boston!

I love organizing events... I'm a member the Joomla Events Team and the Joomla World Conference Team. My favorite event is, of course, JoomlaDay Boston which is happening on March 14th and 15th!

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Open Source Initiative Membership Drive

Open Source Initiative Membership Drive

February, 3rd, 2015 marks the 17th anniversary of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

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Campagne d'adhésion à Open Source Initiative

Campagne d'adhésion à Open Source Initiative

Le 3 février 2015 marquera le 17ème anniversaire d’Open Source Initiative (OSI).

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Public Intro, Restricted Article

Public Intro, Restricted Article

There are times when the project of a site calls for the introduction of texts to be visible by general audiences, but if the visitor wants to see the full article, s/he must log in to the system. The full content is blocked and only after the visitor creates or is granted an access account will s/he be able enjoy the full content of the article.

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Des outils pour en faire moins ;) (LESS)

Des outils pour en faire moins ;) (LESS)

Pour faire suite à l'article de David Hurley sur l'utilisation de less, Utilisez LESS avec Joomla!, j'ai établi une liste d'outils et programmes que vous pouvez utiliser pour travailler et encoder plus facilement vos sites web avec LESS, surtout si vous venez de l'univers des CSS traditionnelles et que vous essayez de comprendre le fonctionnement de LESS. Cet article passe en revue un ensemble d'outils LESS utiles et découverts par nos stagiaires, chez PB Web Development, pendant leur travail et apprentissage de LESS et Joomla.

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Utilisez LESS avec Joomla!

Utilisez LESS avec Joomla!

 

Une des nombreuses nouvelles fonctionnalités de Joomla! 3 est l'implémentation de LESS. Nombre d'entre vous a bien sur entendu parler de LESS, ce que c'est, comment l'utiliser et comment il peut être utilisé, mais pour ceux désireux de l'apprendre (ou de se rafraichir la mémoire), voici un tour d'horizon de quelques-uns de ses avantages et la façon de l'utiliser dans Joomla.

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Usando un menú oculto

Usando un menú oculto

¿Has tratado alguna vez de insertar en un artículo un enlace hacia otro artículo, sin agregar el artículo a enlazara a tu menú principal, pero te has quedado frustrado tratando de mostrar módulos junto con el artículo? La respuesta para poder mostrar módulos está en usar un menú oculto (también llamado menú invisible).

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