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Joomla! Community Magazine | January 2011
The January issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!
IN THIS ISSUE...
A special thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month's issue: Theo van der Zee.
Editor’s Introduction
Joomla! - We Keep It Movin' by Cristina Solana
Feature stories
Alice Grevet invites us to Party Like It's Joomla! 1.6
Jon Neubauer invokes Camelot: Ask not what Joomla! can do for you...
Matt Lipscomb offers up more Insights From: "The Official Joomla! Book" (Part 3)Leadership Connections
Alice Grevet maps out the New Year with Open Source Matters: December 2010 Report
Matt Lipscomb talks with Paul Orwig, Sandra Warren, Ron Severdia and Louis Landry:The 2010 Video Interviews - Part 3Website Case Studies
Robert Vining looks at migrating/upgrading from Mambo to Joomla! in this month's Website Case Study: Kineo E-Learning
Extensions and Services Evaluations
Team EAsE sez: Back it up, back it up, back it up! Backup Now! - You know you should!
Team EAsE Podcast: Passwords - Don't walk in front of a Bus!JUGs and Events
Jon Neubauer gets the inside scoop on JAB11: Interview with Robert Deutz & Brian Teeman
Dianne Henning sends out a casting call for your Joomla! videos with Lights, Camera, Action!Did you know…?
Milena Mitova makes it look as easy as ABC with her Tried and Tested Tools for Building a Teacher-Friendly School Website
Theo van der Zee shares some Zen enlightenment and explains What Joomla! and Bonsai Trees Have In CommonDesigner's studio
Anthony Olsen offers his Top 10 Joomla! Template Picks for 2010
Administrator's toolkit
Nicholas Dionysopoulos takes us to the dark world of ownership, users, groups and permissions. 777: The number of the beast
Book Reviews
Bo Astrup reviews ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! Site Cookbook which serves up some tasty recipes for successful form configuration and implementation.
Joomla! in the Press/Media
Mark Bender logs in with Joomla! in the Press/Media - January 2011
On the lighter side...
Yepr pops a cork with Jane Beyond & friends
The Joomla! Haiku: Share yours!
Prolific poets,
punsters and word masters too,
spread the Joomla! love... Post your Haiku here for January 2011 This month's theme: Resolutions!IN OUR NEXT ISSUE
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!
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Joomla 1.6 RC1 Now Available
The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 RC1 (download). This is our first -- and we hope only -- release candidate. IMPORTANT NOTE: This is still an evaluation version and is not intended for running a production site.
Before the release of 1.6.0, we will be performing a security audit of version 1.6. It is anticipated that there will be additional security fixes applied to version 1.6 RC1 before the release of 1.6.0.
Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 15 release on 29 November, we have fixed approximately 121 issues in the tracker. We have closed an additional 46 tracker issues.
At the present time, we have no High or Medium High issues in the tracker, which is why we are able to release 1.6 Release Candidate 1. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work!
See the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release.
What's next?
This is the first -- and we hope -- only release candidate release. We plan to release version 1.6.0 on 10 January 2011, assuming we don't find any High or Medium High issues that we are unable to fix before then.
Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5560
Related Links:
Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla- 16-development-shifting-gears. html Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/ 5275-joomla-16-beta-now- available.html Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5280-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 5 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5282-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 6 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5285-joomla-16-beta6-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 7 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5291-joomla-16-beta7-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 8 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5292-joomla-16-beta8-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 9 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5294-joomla-16-beta9-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 10 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5295-joomla-16-beta10-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 11 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5295-joomla-16-beta11-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 12 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta12-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 13 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta13-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 14 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta14-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 15 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5324-joomla-16-beta15-now-available.html
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Joomla Ranks Strongly in CMS Market Share Studies
As the year 2010 draws to a close, we are pleased to share two recent reports comparing numerous CMS solutions where Joomla! proves to be a top contender:
Idealware (www.idealware.org) is a non-profit organization in the US that provides software research for the non-profit community. This report, titled “2010 Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal and Plone” not only gives high rankings to the Joomla project, but also reports, “The final tally showed Joomla as the market leader, followed by WordPress, then Drupal, then Plone.” Download the Idealware report.
Additionally, Joomla! does very well as a community-driven project alongside corporate-supported Wordpress and Drupal in the "2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report" published by Water & Stone (www.waterandstone.com). Referred to as "The Big Three", the report concludes that Wordpress, Joomla! and Drupal remain firmly in command of the market. The report assesses 20 Open Source Content Management Systems on a variety of metrics related to Rate of Adoption and Brand Strength. Download the Water & Stone report.Together may all who contribute to Joomla! celebrate and take pride in these findings!
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Joomla! Community Magazine - December 2010 Issue Released
The December issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!
In this issue:
We have made some usability improvements based on recommendations offered by Merav Knafo in her Joomla.org Magazine Usability Testing Report. Thank you Merav and Steve Bickel for your willingness to take a look at the JCM and point out some areas where we can improve!
Also, we give our special thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month's issue: Lukas Polak, Parth Lawate, Jarrod Nettles, and Merav Knafo.
Editorial
A Great Year for Joomla by Paul Orwig, Lead editor
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Joomla 1.6 Beta 15 Now Available
The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 15 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 14 release on November 1, we have fixed approximately 84 issues in the tracker. We have closed an additional 33 tracker issues. At the present time, we have 4 issues that are blocking the release 1.6 Release Candidate 1. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!
See the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release.
What's next?
This is the 15th in our series of continuous beta releases. We expect to release version 1.6 Release Candidate 1 on December 13, 2010 (unless we encounter serious and unanticipated difficulties).
Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5539
Related Links:
Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla- 16-development-shifting-gears. html Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/ 5275-joomla-16-beta-now- available.html Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5280-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 5 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5282-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 6 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5285-joomla-16-beta6-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 7 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5291-joomla-16-beta7-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 8 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5292-joomla-16-beta8-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 9 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5294-joomla-16-beta9-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 10 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5295-joomla-16-beta10-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 11 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5295-joomla-16-beta11-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 12 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta12-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 13 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta13-now-available.htmlJoomla 1.6 Beta 14 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5304-joomla-16-beta14-now-available.html
