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DOCman Statistics Module 1.5.1 Released

This is just a quick touch up release which looks to address a potential clash with the Joomla! statistics module, while no bug report has been filed against the potential clash Its better safe than sorry! Plans are in place to hopefully clean up the module and make it a touch more complex than it currently [...]

Happy Xmas

Just a quick happy Xmas to one and all, i choose to call it x-mas to honor futurama’s take on Christmas – yes i enjoy the show . So i hope you all get lots of presents under your palm trees and enjoy this seasonal event.

Myself, well Xmas is all about goals, I [...]

Comments moved to Disqus

The comments for the site have been moved to the popular commenting service disqus, I’ve used disqus in the past but took it on the overly excitement of a certain someone i know every time disqus is mentioned and given that person is a developer of some kick ass extensions.. who am i to argue [...]

Google Wave: more invites

So Google Wave appears to be storming the planet in mass, i recall seeing it and thinking this is neat but how dangerous to IRC will this be – personally i think the likes of Wikipedia need to be more worried given their increasing lack of good feedback (that’s a nice way of saying they [...]

Blog migrated

The blog has now been migrated from its usual home on blogger to a self reliant wordpress install, alongside the move away from blogger comes the new domain which is located at 4-4-2.org or Minus2 as its dubbed. The domain is one i have had laying around for some time but not been using for [...]

Drupal 3PD GPL enforcement blows away Joomla!

Anyone whom has been around long enough in the community will remember the Open Source Does Matter… post which caused a few people to complain, projects were scrapped and a lot of media coverage on the issue which was under high discussion and that would be Joomla!’s enforcement of the GPL – this was all [...]

Messaging 1.4.2 Review

In today’s review i thought i would try out one of the PMS solutions since most every community site will make use of this in the event they do not have a bridged forum or similar which provides this option. Messaging was the one i opted to pick on today as it was not only [...]

JoomlaConnect™ Is it working ?

When JoomlaConnect™ was announced not to long ago as a replacement for the news that page that was once upon a time on the Joomla! homepage my initial thought was something along the lines of “well, this wont last 5 minutes, crappy idea” However as ever i assumed wrong.
Agreed RSS is a great way of [...]

ChronoComments Review

In today’s review i opted to take a look at one of the newer comment systems for Joomla! that being in the form of ChronoComments which is a Joomla! 1.5 native system. The install was easy enough and offered no complications in terms of using the native installers for the component. After the install it [...]