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29.01.11
We have just added a 6 month subscription to Safari Books Online in our massive Joomla Freelance Web Designer Giveaway, bringing the prizes to over $1600 worth.
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SourceJoomla 1.6 drives forward with developer conference
22.11.09
The steady march to Joomla 1.6 picked up further steam recently with the release of the project's second alpha release.
Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2 became available last week, and shows the development team is making great strides toward a next generation Joomla.
Front and center in this new release is the long-awaited Access Control Level feature, or ACL. A first release of the "nested categories" and a new backend template made it in the second alpha as well.
With Joomla 1.6 getting closer to a beta release (anticipated sometime in the next few months), the Joomla leadership team is hosting the first-ever Joomla Developer Conference in early December.
SourceVote for the Version
01.08.11
This is a report from the Joomla Leadership Summit now underway in San Jose, CA. Members of the Community Leadership Team (CLT), Production Leadership Team (PLT) and the board of Open Source Matters (OSM) are busy discussing the best foot forward in all areas of the project.
The PLT had our summit in the days leading up to the overall Leadership Summit. We'll share shortly the results of that summit, but we wanted to get some direct feedback from the community on an issue that affects many.
We decided to make a small change to the way Joomla versions are numbered. If you have read about the new development cycle, you know we now have a new Joomla version every six months and one long-term-support (LTS) release every 18 months. Versions 1.6 and 1.7 are six-month releases and the next release in January 2012 will be an LTS release. This way, users have a choice. They can get the latest and greatest version by updating with improvements every six months, or they can have a more stable feature set with updates every 18 months.  Maintenance and security releases will be done as necessary for both LTS and STS releases during their support periods.
To try to make this as clear as possible to users, we have decided that the long-term releases will always be labeled as x.5 releases. For example, 3.0 and 3.1 will be regular, short-term six-month releases. The following version would be 3.5, indicating that it is a LTS release. Version 3.5 will be supported for 18 months. In the meantime, we will release 4.0 and 4.1. The LTS replacement for 3.5 will be 4.5, 18 months later.
We would like to present two options to the community to decide how to proceed with this versioning approach. 
Click on the diagram above to view a larger version.
The first option (Option #1) in the diagram is to call the January 2012 release (long-term release) 1.8. The subsequent short -term releases would be 2.0 and 2.1 (e.g. maintenance releases would be 2.0.1 or 2.1.1, etc.) and the following release would be 2.5 (using the x.5 number to identify it as a long-term release). This would be an anomaly in the versioning strategy because it would be the only version to not follow the x.5 numbering, but this version number would naturally follow 1.6 and 1.7.
The second option (Option #2) in the diagram is to call the January 2012 release (long-term release) 2.5. The subsequent short -term releases would be 3.0 and 3.1 (e.g. maintenance releases would be 3.0.1 or 3.1.1, etc.) and the following release would be 3.5 (using the x.5 number to identify it as a long-term release). This would be an anomaly in the versioning strategy because there would be no version numbers between 1.7 and 2.5, but this version number would follow the future versioning strategy (also there would be backwards compatibility with Joomla 1.5).
Vote for the option that makes the best sense here:
 
 
 
 
 
The Read More option in 1.5 RC3 | Joomla Read More
19.07.10
In my previous post I mentioned the fact that the Read More option of Joomla was not editable anymore. Before that I wrote about how-to-solve-the-joomla-read-more-problem in version 1.0.x But I found an item in RC3 in the Advanced Parameters of the article section that makes in possible to do an “Click here to read” text per article.. It is [...]
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Barnes & Noble's Nook eBook Developer website runs Joomla
05.05.11
I just came across a simple example of how Joomla's extensibility can offer brochure websites powerful integration with 3rd party services; USA Bookseller Barnes & Noble has used Joomla to create a website for developers to learn about their eBook reader, called a Nook.
The site's content is mainy public and offered through Joomla's de facto Article setup though it looks like they've used Community Builder to allow developers on the site to annotate their user accounts with marketing-useful information upon registration.  As well, the site shares a login with Zen Desk, a popular 3rd-party customer support/ticketing provider - so once logged in, Nook Developers can jump right into reading and posting any support queries hosted on the B&N Zen Desk account.
To integrate user login with Zen Desk, B&N may have used the Zen Desk Dropbox bridge plugin - I'm not sure...