Good bye joomla 1.0 you've been a good friend over the years but sadly now it's time to say farewell

After over 1 million downloads of the very final release of the Joomla 1.0 it has now reached it's end of life.

There will be no further updates or security releases fro this Tuesday but what does that mean for sites that are still running Joomla 1.0?

In reality I suspect very little.

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I'm a firm believer in using the right tool for the job. If I have an egg to crack I know I will get better results with a fork or the edge of the bowl than I will with a hammer. Of course a hammer can crack an egg but it will be messy and leave you with more egg on the floor than in the bowl.

So why use joomla to build a shop?

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I had intended on writing a long blog post with screenshots and everything explaining some of the new features, and changes, in the upcoming Joomla 1.6.

But I'm lazy and I don't see any point in re-inventing the wheel so just take a few moments to read this excellent presentation from Andrew Eddie.

I'm still not convinced that the core of Joomla needs the bloat of tags and comments but only time will tell on that one. (I originaly came to mambo because I was looking for an open source application to build dynamic web sites that did NOT have comments)

When a new (security) release of joomla is released how do you do the update?

Do you actually look at the changes or do you blindly do an update either via ftp or using an automated "update extension"

Blindly updating your site is not good security!!!

What? Is Brian saying that we shouldn't keep our joomla sites up to date. Absolutely not.

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Welcome to the "Joomla Developers Showdown".

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves the creation of a Joomla 1.5 component called "Company Directory". You may develop this extension on your own or as part of a team select, but it is essential that component is delivered to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it before 09:00 GMT on 6 July.

This component should satisfy the needs of "Impossible Missions Force (IMF)".

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A new version of the Joomla 1.5 series was released today, which is possibly the last release before 1.6. This release contains a number of bug fixes and three moderate-level security fixes and some library upgrades.

NOTE please check the FAQ of known issues with 1.5.12 before upgrading

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Are you a "supporter/fan" of Joomla?

Would you like a simple and easy way to show your support?

How about joining a "Joomla Supporters Club".

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That might sound like a silly question as we all know that Joomla cost zero pounds, zero dollars, zero euros, zero yen, zero yuan etc. But it is not as simple as that.

Earlier today I twittered

Trying to write new blog post "how much does #joomla cost" not easy. struggling with some of the math.

Joomla does not cost nothing.

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Very, very soon.

This is a very important opportunity for all Joomla users and developers to download, test and provide feedback.

If you don't take up this opportunity then you don't have the right to moan later.

You can provide feedback via forums, google groups and of course now via twitter. (But I don't think the latter is particularly beneficial for the developers to keep track of potential issues.)

Please don't forget that this is an Alpha release. That means it is definitely NOT suitable for a live site and might not be a definitive base to build extensions upon.