CovertApps, a development company specializing in Joomla mobile applications, today announced the launch of Joomla Admin Mobile for Android. In addition, CovertApps has also released an updated version of Joomla Admin Mobile for iPhone.
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JFBConnect 4.0 Released - Facebook Integration for Joomla
Austin, TX-- This week, SourceCoast announced the release of JFBConnect 4.0, the latest version of their popular Facebook for Joomla integration extension. Compatible with Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7+, it offers single-sign on registration, as well as customizable options for Like, Comments, Recommendations and other Facebook social widgets.
“Our goal is to provide Joomla users with a complete Facebook for Joomla package,” said SourceCoast Co-Founder Alex Andreae. “This update has some great new features and expands beyond Facebook, which we’re really excited about.”
Joomla! Sites with JavaScript and jQuery Book
Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery, a new book that will help readers to enhance their Joomla! sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more. Written by Jose Argudo Blanco, this book will enable readers to create their own Joomla!, jQuery-powered, extensions and enhance their site with third-party features, code-highlighting, Flickr, and more using Joomla! plugins.
Build 10 exciting web projects using Packt's new Joomla! Book
Packt is pleased to announce a new book, Joomla! 1.5 Site Blueprints, that will help readers to build powerful and exciting Joomla! sites easily. Written by Timi Ogunjobi , this book will teach readers to expand and tailor their sample projects as per their client's needs and to create quick prototypes of commonly used applications within hours.
Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide – The full review
This is the in-depth review of Packt Publishing's latest title on Joomla!, “Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide”, written by Eric Tiggeler. The review goes through the whole book, discussing its strengths over other similar entry-level publications to Joomla!. There is also an ongoing raffle, sponsored by the publisher, ending at May 8th.
New book for customizing Joomla! websites
Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5x Customization: Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs, a new book, which will help users create and customize a unique, professional Joomla! website to suit their business requirements. Written by Daniel Chapman, this book is a step-by-step guide that will show readers how to build a unique website with Joomla! using the same techniques as professionals. It will help them understand and customize modules, plugins, components, and templates.
Joomla! is the world’s hottest open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.
Joomla! 1.5x Customization: Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs will make it easy for developers to build a successful, professional website that will adapt to all their business needs. It will help them separate their site from the crowd of other Joomla! sites and will guide them through the customization of the different parts and aspects of their site. It will also guide them to identify and use the right tools to speed up their site development.
Event Registration Pro Calendar v1.5.8 Released
JoomlaShowroom.com is proud to announce the release of Event Registration Pro Calendar v1.5.8 for Joomla 1.5. Joomla Showroom just keeps knocking out the other event registration solutions. While our competition keeps struggling to catch up to us in features, ease of use, and quality; we just keep leaving them further and further behind with every new release. Funny how they are releasing new features that we have had for 6 months. That just has to tell you something.
And now there is yet another new release of Event Registration Pro Calendar for Joomla 1.5 from http://joomlashowroom.com
Joomlearn LMS Silver Edition v1.5.6 Released!
Joomla Showroom has just released a new version of the Joomlearn LMS Silver Edition.
This new version 1.5.6 comes with a brand new feature. Now you can see the actual results of each question that you answered in a test.
The new version will show on the results page the correct answer to the question as well as the answer that the user chose in the online quiz.
Visit http://joomlashowroom.com for more information.
Updated J Admin Mobile iPhone App Coming
The new version of J Admin Mobile! and J Admin Mobile Lite! have been submitted to the Apple App Store with the ability to upload images into Joomla articles, add new users, change user levels, along with other enhancements and bug-fixes.
Reviewing Barrie North's Joomla! 1.5 book and video
Barrie North has a problem. He can't stop talking about his favorite content management system, Joomla!. So last year, he decided to write his own Joomla book titled appropriately, Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide. The problem is that people like North are never willing to let that be enough. As Joomla! 1.5 continues to evolve since its initial release so too has North's offerings. Two weeks ago North's publisher, Prentice Hall, sent me a second edition of Joomla! 1.5 as well a new video from their LiveLessons series, Fundamentals of Joomla!. Unlike last year, I decided to actually review the book as well as watch the video.
Let me first say, I'm a reluctant book reviewer. There is nothing that weighs on a person's busy day than having publishers send me a steady stream of content management related books for review. Eventually, those technical books begin stacking up on my desk and secretly I know half of those books aren't worth my time or your money. Luckily for all of us, North's Joomla 1.5 book and Fundamentals of Joomla! video are well worth the purchase. I can't help but give two thumbs up to both North's updated Joomla! 1.5 book and new video.
Joomla Video Tutorials and Video Marketing Club Launched!
Joomlearn.com is happy to announce our new Joomlearn Video Training Club. The club offers narrated video tutorials for Joomla, Drupal, and Wordpress. There are also video tutorials on Internet Marketing as well as other How To videos.
The Joomlearn club member download section houses hundreds of valuable downloads to help get you started fast. This is THE most comprehensive Joomla Video Tutorials website club around.
Here's what you get:
- Custom Narrated Joomla 1.5 Videos
- Hundreds Of Custom Narrated Intenet Marketing Videos
- Large Ebook Club Repository
- Must Have Joomla Extensions
- Joomla Resources Downloads
- Ready to sell digital download packages
- 1200+ Articles and Blogging Content
- Image Packs
- Access to our HUGE 500+ Joomla 1.5 Template Repository
- Special "How To" Videos
- Article Packs you can modify and use on your own site
- Tips and Tricks
- Insider news you can't get anywhere else
- Discounts from our various partners
- New videos added every month
This is far more than your average tutorials website. You get access to tons of fresh information every month that will actually HELP YOU MAKE MONEY!
11 New Joomla Training Classes Announced
Joomlearn.com is happy to announce a lot of new Joomla Training locations around the United States. So if you have been waiting for Joomla Training to come into your area then wait no longer.
Event Registration Pro Calendar v1.5.5 for Joomla 1.5 Released!
The very best event registration extension for Joomla 1.5 just got better. This HUGE new release includes an integrated fully custimizable calendar display as well as a new group registration feature. So if you have been waiting for Event Registration Pro to get a calendar feature, then wait no more. Pick up your copy today at www.joomlashowroom.com!
Here are a few of the new calendar features.
- Custom calendar page
- Users can view calendar view or list view – their choice
- Admin can set the default view of the front end RE: Calendar/List view
- Easy drop down Month and Year choices for quick access to a calendar page
- Can navigate calendar by using the arrows to go to the next month
- Events are displayed on the calendar with an icon and the event name
- If you hover over an event that is listed on the calendar you will see the event name, dates, location, and short description in a nice popup box
- Calendar CSS files are included to change the look to better fit your website template if needed
- Current date will flash in red on the calendar
Official release of Joomla 1.5
I briefly wanted to mention that the stable release of Joomla! 1.5 has finally arrived! Needless to say, there are some very happy people in the open source community to see this version of the content management system go gold.
I haven't taken a serious look at Joomla! 1.5 since Beta 1 and Beta 2 were out the door. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to taking a look at the finished product over the course of the next few weeks. Until then, below is a brief glimpse from the announcement at Joomla.org of what you can expect from version 1.5.
Is Joomla! 1.5 RC3 really a release candidate?
I was really surprised not only find out that Joomla! 1.5 is going through a third release candidate, but will likely be followed with more release candidates. In most projects, the release candidate is a nearly-done final product where the only thing left is to make sure all the i's are dotted and all the t's are crossed. Not so with Joomla! 1.5.
Johan Janssens's writes in his post, Is Joomla! 1.5 RC3 really a release candidate?:
In the last two weeks after the release of RC3 I have seen this question popping up on forums and mailing lists. I have seen complaints about RC3 being more of a break in development then a real release candidate. Some people seem to feel that we are still adding features and making functionality changes.
In this post I will try to give, in all honesty and openness, a status update on development and provide an answer to this question.
You can read the rest of the post yourself. One quick summary for Johan's post would be, "Joomla is experiencing growing pains". Sometimes it's difficult for us to remember that while the original codebase for Joomla! has been around for awhile, the project itself is quite young.
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