Gotta love the community. A group of developers are putting their heads together to create an excellent tutorial on the new Joomla 1.5 MVC (model, view, controller) structure and how to build a component using MVC and the new Joomla libraries. This is a great resource for all you developers out there. Hope to see some good components come out in the future because of this.
Sometimes your schedule changes, and you’ve got to rearrange a meeting. Then sometimes you get invited to have lunch and go to Joomla presentations by core team members to a Google developer audience and your day completely changes.
Tomorrow I’ll be attending a few sessions at the Googleplex, led by Joomla team members including Louis Landry, Wilco Jansen, Hannes Papenberg and Laurens Vandeput. Their Google guide for the trip, Leslie Hawthorn, is a wonderful mix of open source developer mom and supporter of everything that leads to happy developers. She’s even talked about the great open source speakers series that they’re having a Google these days, including our Joomla devs.
Throughout tomorrow I’ll do my best to post updates to the blog, including some video and photos of the talks. I’ll also make sure to provide fully detailed reports on the Google cafeteria food, which I promise to eat until fully stuffed.
(Photos and video after the page flip…)
In our efforts to go beyond just the nuts and bolts of bridging the gap between CRM and CMS applications, PICnet has kicked off our community building effort for Joomla and Salesforce.com users. We’re a bunch of regular matchmakers.
Yesterday I had great meeting with Meghan Nesbit of the Salesforce.com Foundation at their offices in downtown SF. We chatted about a variety of items, including the impact that Salesforce is having in the non-profit community, with well more than 1,000 licenses of their non-profit version of Salesforce distributed for free to organizations across the US. Even better, these non-profit users get the same standard support paying Salesforce corporate users receive.
I also learned about a vibrant non-profit Salesforce user community that bubbles up in three different places:
When I had a chance to demo what we’ve already put together for J!Salesforce, Meghan seemed pretty happy with the results, and seemed especially in tune with some of the trickiness to the integration on items such as multi-select boxes. Her comments were a nice pat on the back of Kevin’s tireless work over the past few weeks, and sparked a fire under our feet to keep the ball rolling.
Joomla must be doing something right if Google is impressed. Wilco posted a little blurb about Google going to Joomla!Days. He quotes the Google rep on how impressed he was of how Joomla was run and then invited them to speak at the Googleplex on December 21. If you didn’t believe Joomla was the best CMS before, I don’t know how you can’t believe it now.
This is for all your Joomla Developers out there. When trying to add Joomla javascript to the frontend like the pop calendar, it only works for the registered users. This is because the code currently only loads joomla.javascript.js for registered users and when joomlaJavascript has been set in the mainframe object. So what do you do then? Add this one liner to your code:
$mainframe->set(’joomlaJavascript’, 1);
Thats it, now you have the javascript pop calendar in the frontend. Little update on the current calendar installed with Joomla. It is one created by dynarch.com. Joomla currently uses 0.9.2 and with the next release they should be upgrading to 0.9.4 which allows for adding of time allow with the date.
I know alot of you have been asking when is Joomla 1.0.12 coming out or when is 1.5 coming out. Well, Johan gives us an update. I would also like to add that they have just released the Joomla 1.0.11 User Manual. Alot of great information here and is a great illustration of the good work the documentation workgroup is doing. Download the pdf here.
So I know a lot of you think that Joomla! is incredible because it does everything, but as the saying goes “Computers are only as smart as the users using them”. Joomla does a lot of great things out of the box, but bad administrating can make any Joomla install unsafe.
Brad found this forum posting about the “sad, but true” things that some administrators do. For those of you who do these, I hope this opens your eyes and you learn from them, but for most of you, I know you’re doing the right thing.
We’ve been proud supporters of David Milner’s creation in New York, the Not-for-Profit Webmaster Round Table. Now as David brings the round table to Washington, PICnet jumped at the opportunity to host!
The round table has grown since its inception in 1999, and now hosts a wide variety of non-profit organizations that come together every few months to share ideas and best practices in Web development.
Friday, January 12th, 2006 from 2 PM EST to 5 PM EST
PICnet
1341 G St, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
(Google Map, Yahoo Map)
If you’re interested in joining us for this latest round table, please email David directly.
The Joomla core developers use a combination of manual auditing and automated auditing. They use Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner for the automated auditing which has been donated to the Joomla Project. Acunetix WVS scans the site for SQL injection, cross-site scripting and other vulnerabilities, thereby averting possible hacker attacks.
This tool has been run against the 1.0.x trunk (in preparation for 1.0.12) 3 times in the last two months which gives the Joomla Team valuable reports that allows them to hardens the code. This is a great tool to be using, because we all know about human error.
After brainstorming with our friend Holly from N-TEN, I’ll be leading the first Ask The Expert session on November 16, 2006. The topic? Joomla!
November 16, 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern
When I talked with Holly a few weeks ago, she was saying that N-TEN was looking for ways for people to share knowledge with others in the community, outside the confines of the annual NTC. This is a great opportunity to try reaching out to the community with hands-on guidance, something that has been missing (but getting better!) at NTCs.
As the N-TEN site says:
“We know you have questions, and we’ve found a way to make it easier for you to get answers. Once a month we’re bringing an expert online to answer your questions. For one hour at a scheduled time, our expert will be available via online chat to answer your questions and point you to the resources and tools you need.”
So, bring forth your Joomla questions! It doesn’t matter if you’re an accidental techie, a developer, or someone just trying to figure out what the word “Joomla” means. Come one, come all, it’s free!
Update: Johan Janssens, the lead developer of Joomla, might be joining us for the session, per his posting on the Joomla Forums!
Check out the N-TEN blog posting on this.
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