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Happy 5th Birthday Joomla!
I thought long and hard about what to write for this Birthday blog post.
I started to look back at the early days, back in September and October 2005, to see if the aims and ideas of the co-founders have come to fruition.
Then I realised that we had no grand aims of world domination just a desire to work together with a wider community to build something special.
Add a commentThe Joomla World Cup - Spain - Promoting Open Source Software
Spain were one of the "red hot" favourites before the start of the World Cup but somehow after they managed to lose their first game we all forgot that.
It has been slightly harder to find high profile joomla web sites in Spain than in some other countries
I suspect that this is more down to my poor language skills than any lack of adoption.
Add a commentThe Joomla World Cup - Japan - Joomla! in the Japanese Business World
As Japan had a notable victory today in the FIFA World Cup it is this Nation's turn to feature on the blog.
However I had a great deal of difficulty in finding many Joomla powered web sites in Japan. Perhaps this guest blog by Norito Hanji Yoshida will help to explain why.
This blog post was first published at http://www.joomlajp.org
Protect Joomla! passwords on public WiFi networks
We are used to communication being secure
If we phone with our mobiles, we assume that only the people we dialled can hear us.
When transferring money we provide information via the bank's web page and we trust that nobody else can use that information to withdraw money from our accounts.
Add a commentThere is no I in Joomla!
Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks you will know that J&Beyond took place last week in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Over the last 10 years I have attended countless Mambo, Joomla, Linux and other open source events and I'm convinced that this was the best of the lot.
It's hard to say exactly what it was that made this event the best.
Add a commentWhat's in a name - Why is it called Joomla?
We all hopefully know that joomla is a misspelling of a swahili word meaning "all together" but do you know how we chose that name or what the cms formerly known as mambo could have been called.
At the recent Joomla!Day in the Netherlands I gave my recollections of the turbulent and traumatic process involved.
Sadly I was doing most of this by memory as I no longer have any of my own records from that time, but Arno, Jean-Marie and Johan helped to fill in some of the gaps.
I'll be making this presentation again at J&Beyond later this month and maybe by then I may have filled in a few more gaps.
Joomla Supporters Club - Revisited
Almost a year a go I wrote a proposal for a "Joomla Supporters Club"
Unfortunately perhaps the timing wasn't right and despite positive comments from the Joomla community the idea sadly fell on deaf ears.
Which suprised me as it was one of the most read items on this blog in the year
In the last few weeks several people have contacted me about trying again.
So never being one to give up at the first attempt I'm making another attempt to get this off the ground.
Perhaps now is the right time to finally get the Joomla! Supporters Club up and running.
Add a commentVolunteer Skill Reservoir
I've been involved with voluntary organisations for over 25 years, either as a volunteer, employee or organiser.
Every organisation has suffered from the same problems: lack of volunteers, volunteer burn-out, missing skills and cliques.
The problem usually arises when a new task/team/role is created and the default option is to look at the existing pool of volunteers and asking some of them to take on the task. Without consideration of them having the required skills, or importantly available time, just that they are already "known people".
Add a commentJoomla 1.6 nested categories
If you have been following the development of Joomla 1.6 you will have noticed that one of the new features is nested categories.
This means that you are no longer limited to the Section-Category-Article paradigm but can have as many levels of categories as you wish.
I've explained before how the current system works and how to understand the limitations by comparing it to a filing cabinet.
Personally I have never had an issue keeping my back-end filing system and my front-end navigation system separate but I know that many many people do. It's been this way since the early Mambo days so I guess I have grown up with the structure and it's not a problem for me.
Add a commentJoomla Known Issues
Yesterday I was answering a user question on the joomla forums.
It doesn't matter what it was about but the upshot was that the problem was a known issue in the latest release and that a patch had been written and approved and was ready and waiting to be included in the next release.
But it was 24 hours and a lot of testing before I realised that it was a known issue.
It's not practical for regular users to search the bug tracker for "known issues" and fixes as the tracker is less than friendly.
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