Alain Rivest
Alain Rivest
  • 38, Male
  • Montréal, Québec
  • Canada
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Alain Rivest replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'API changes between 1.5 and 2.5 ?' in the group Developers
I found this page. There's not much information, but it's better than nothing... I guess... http://docs.joomla.org/Potential_backward_compatibility_issues_in_Joomla_2.5_and_Joomla_Platform_11.4 Meanwhile, the component I'm…
Jan 29
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Tom Fuller replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'API changes between 1.5 and 2.5 ?' in the group Developers
I would be very interested in this too!
Jan 16
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API changes between 1.5 and 2.5 ?

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Joomla 2.5 will be released at the end of January 2012. We all need to make changes to our extensions to make them compatible with Joomla 2.5 and the beta period is the perfect time to do that to be ready when it's released. Maybe I don't know how to search but I didn't find any information about the API changes between 1.5 and 2.5, or at least between 1.7 and 2.5. Is there any information somewhere other than looking at the code?See More
Alain Rivest added a discussion to the group Developers Jan 16
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Alain Rivest commented on Amy Stephen's blog post 'GPL and additional media Licensing for Joomla! Extensions'
Simple. Because a lot of moderators are control freaks. Not all, but a lot. You can't question their decisions or the thread is locked or worst you get banned. That's just stupid...  
Sep 20, 2011
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Alain Rivest replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Should I use admin models on the front end?' in the group Developers
Hi Amy, I just installed a clean J1.7 with the latest version of JFooBar and it's working great! Nothing to report! :)
Sep 10, 2011
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Amy Stephen replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Should I use admin models on the front end?' in the group Developers
Alain - if you try it again and find errors - please let me know. HarryB reported some installation errors so those might be related https://github.com/Niambie/jfoobar/issues/6   Thanks!
Sep 7, 2011
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Alain Rivest replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Should I use admin models on the front end?' in the group Developers
Some models uses the JModelAdmin class. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to use that on the front-end. I'll have to study the new classes of J1.7.   I used NotWebDesign's component creator:…
Sep 5, 2011
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Amy Stephen replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Should I use admin models on the front end?' in the group Developers
Definitely do that - the only caveat is that the admin uses filters and the frontend uses parameters - so you have to work that thru a bit.   I put a tool and post up on the Magazine this month - it will generate your component for you - and…
Sep 4, 2011
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Detlef Volmer replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Should I use admin models on the front end?' in the group Developers
The only thing I can say is: why not. I do that and don't see any disadvantages.   Have fun.   Detlef
Sep 3, 2011
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Eddie May replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Should I use admin models on the front end?' in the group Developers
In Ruby DRY (don't repeat yourself) is a mantra - DRY code is easier to maintain & bug fix & therefore cheaper in the long run. Perhaps helper classes are the way to go, that way you can override them if necessary depending upon the…
Sep 3, 2011
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Alain Rivest replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Should I use admin models on the front end?' in the group Developers
That's what I think. It also minimize the risk of bug. But most if not all the component I looked at uses 2 separates models.  Where I work we never duplicates code. The client applications use the same functions as the batch jobs to get…
Sep 3, 2011
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Daniel Dimitrov replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Should I use admin models on the front end?' in the group Developers
Hey Alan, I think that it is really simple - don't repeat yourself. If you can save 100 lines of code, why write them? If you can use your backend models in frontend, then do it. Look at the nooku framework for example - the idea behind it is…
Sep 2, 2011
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Every time I build a new component I wonder if I should use the admin model on the front end or create a separate model and duplicate most of the code. Since the model already contain all the code to get the data from the database, is there a good reason for a separate model? If I take com_compoent for example, retrieving an article or a list of articles should be the same SQL query regardless if it's called from the back or the front end. Same thing for saving an article, we need to set the…See More
Alain Rivest added a discussion to the group Developers Sep 2, 2011
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Alain Rivest commented on Luis Méndez Alejo's blog post 'Open Translators - Traducciones libres para Joomla!'
All I can say is the Open Translators team is awesome! I created two projects on Transifex to see if somebody would translate them and in less than a day I already had 7 new languages! :)
Aug 23, 2011
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Amy Stephen replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Trouble with WYSIWYG editor in J1.6' in the group Developers
Glad you are moving forward! :)
Jun 16, 2011
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Alain Rivest replied to Alain Rivest's discussion 'Trouble with WYSIWYG editor in J1.6' in the group Developers
Argh!!! Ok forget it! It's a bug in JCE.   I tried again with TinyMCE and it's working! I'm sure I tried TinyMCE before and it didn't work... I guess I need more sleep!   This version of JCE is still in beta (2.0.0…
Jun 16, 2011

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I use Joomla! since version 1.0 in 2006. I develop custom Joomla! extensions, I released 3 GPL extensions : DreamHost Manager, CB Multi Author Tab and CB Incomplete Info and I'm the new developer / maintainer of these extensions : Stalker, Talk To Me and JoomPing.

I'm the co-founder of the Joomla! User Group Montréal.
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At 4:49am on June 20, 2011, Soren Beck JensenSoren Beck Jensen said…
Thanks for letting me know about the error on the component creator. We have had a few "going live" issues. You can give it another go now. http://www.notwebdesign.com/joomla-component-creator/
At 9:36pm on October 8, 2009, JoomlapexJoomlapex said…
Hey man! nice to see you here! (hope to meet you in a future official well-organized -- hopefully -- Joomla! event)
At 3:41pm on October 4, 2009, Amy StephenAmy Stephen said…
Hi Alain -

Glad to see you here. Is that Montreal Joomla! Users Group starting to take off, now? Hope so.

I'm afraid I do not know any language, other than "American" English, so I appreciate those of you who are able to use a second (and third) language at all. Many are speaking English as a second language so don't hesitate to jump into a topic, or initiate a discussion of your own.

We are here to learn and support one another -- your help, in that regard, is appreciated.

Amy
 
 
 

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