Added by Brian Teeman on August 31, 2010 at 6:09pm —
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Photo
courtesy of Joomla! Founder
Arno Zijlstra's lovely wife.
Five years ago, today, on August 19, 2005, the brave and
incredibly naive core team o…
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Added by Amy Stephen on August 19, 2010 at 4:30pm —
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I saw this article in a Wordpress blog from one of the core devs there
http://www.andrewnacin.com/ where he make a reference to an article from a company
Qualys and their BlindElephant test about security and comparision of different open source CMS among them Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal.(92%, 4%, 70%)
Any comments on this one?
This week at Black Hat conference in Las
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Added by ssnobben on August 9, 2010 at 7:15am —
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A little update!
We are bowled over with the response from our Movie Makers... there are some very special things beginning to arrive. Forgive us for not going into precise details but surprises are nice aren't they - especially Birthday ones!
The upload deadline is 15th August. Please let us know if this is difficult for you. We have mailed all our Movie Makers from ataawmoviemakers @ gmail.com - if you haven't received any mail from us do let us know here!
As soon a…
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Added by Hilary Cheyne on August 8, 2010 at 7:46am —
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At the J and Beyond 2010 conference in Weisbaden, DE, I had the pleasure
to meet and chat with Aarti Mahajan, a graduate student in Innovation
& Entrepreneurship Management Department at the Ghent University in
Belgium.
Aarti’s doctoral research is aimed at revealing the
entrepreneurship and revenue generation opportunities within the Joomla!
ecosystem.
To obtain the appropriate data for her research,
Aarti has prepared two surveys aimed at Joomla! extension developers and…
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Added by Victor Drover on August 7, 2010 at 11:07am —
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As you know joomla is often accused of being insecure. Nearly always this accusation is wrong! Joomla is secure, but 3rd party components are most of the time not.
There are different reasons for this, but the most obvious in my eyes is the fact that it is super easy to create an extension. And most of the time those extensions are created from people that don't have enough experience and ....
I don't want to be one of those 3rd party developers that end up blamed for security hole…
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Added by Daniel Dimitrov on August 4, 2010 at 3:33pm —
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Congrats to Komrade for being recognized for their stunning one-page design by
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Added by Amy Stephen on July 21, 2010 at 7:24am —
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Have you ever wanted to work with…
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Added by Hilary Cheyne on July 17, 2010 at 1:52pm —
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...or why should the other FOSS projects have all the good ideas!Call for: Script Writers, Director, Production Team, Camera Operators, Actors, Composers, Musicians, Graphic Designers, Promotion Team and all associated professional skills that we know we already have within the Joomla! Community ...and some financiers/philanthropists would probably be essential too!
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Added by Hilary Cheyne on June 26, 2010 at 4:00am —
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That is exceptional. Thanks
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Added by Amy Stephen on June 22, 2010 at 11:42am —
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Every time I turn around, it seems like more positive change is coming out of Open Source Matters.
Jacques Rentzke
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Added by Amy Stephen on June 20, 2010 at 10:00am —
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Elin Waring documented how to clone the existing Joomla! 1.6 User Profile plugin and modify it as needed for your Web site. The plugin automatically adds fields to the registration
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Added by Amy Stephen on June 18, 2010 at 1:30pm —
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Thanks to Ian MacLennan and Louis Landry for their work and what appears to be a very well considered change management plan to help folks move from the very, very dead MT 1.1 to MT 1.2 in Joomla! 1.5. Check out
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Added by Amy Stephen on June 15, 2010 at 10:53pm —
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Hey you Ubuntu desktop Joomla! users! I noticed tonight that one of my favorate technology writers, Bruce Byfield published a recent article in the Linux Magazine entitled
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Added by Amy Stephen on June 14, 2010 at 12:49am —
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Added by Amy Stephen on June 10, 2010 at 4:00pm —
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Thanks Kristoffer Sandven, aka JoomlaBlogger, for continuing to get that strong community message in the air and on the page and heard. We are all starting to realize we have an amazing community th
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Added by Amy Stephen on June 8, 2010 at 4:30pm —
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Mark Dexter
announced a Webinar to explain how to run system tests for Joomla! 1.6 using the Selenium IDE program. Only 25 people will be able to attend (because of Webinar license Joomla! has) the event to be held:
http://timeanddate.com/worldclo…
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Added by Amy Stephen on June 8, 2010 at 1:00pm —
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Do you remember having a laugh when Marcos posted "
How to prevent community"? Point 6 of the keynote of Josh Berkus at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit was about legalese, and for me it was a bit too close for comfort. I have noticed that many people in the software industry are a little bit afraid of legal aspects, in the same way that many people who are not in IT are a bit scared of computers.
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Added by Ewout Wierda on June 6, 2010 at 11:00am —
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Bug Squashing event at Joomla! Day New England, as shared by @sueter.
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Added by Amy Stephen on June 6, 2010 at 10:47am —
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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.
But I've given it a go....
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Added by Brian Teeman on June 4, 2010 at 4:40pm —
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