Posts tagged Open Source

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 [...]

Joomla! addons, the choices

Many people have varied opinions on what makes a good or great addon for the popular content management system Joomla! however it’s often not what matters that comes first to mind when choosing your additional components, modules and plugins for Joomla! The first thing most people i know of look for is the license, now [...]

DOCman 1.5.1 Released

So we already have DOCman 1.5.1 a quick followup release to the already hugely successful DOCman 1.5 release which came not all that long ago, given that no real security issues were found and no real show stoppers were found either this has to be one of the quickest releases to date. Oddly enough whole [...]

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 [...]

Joomla! poll results

So the next lot of votes are in and as ever time to review the results. The first vote I will look at was ‘looking forward to 1.6.x’ The results read like so:

60% of you are looking forward to the next line of Joomla!
25% of you are not looking forward to Joomla! 1.6.x
15% of you [...]

Joomlafish – Second Impression

Some time ago I did a review, well something along those lines on Joomlafish’s 1.8 branch which went horribly wrong and was somewhat of a crocked install. Since the 2.0 branch is now out and about I thought it was time to give it a revised look into, I had no intentions of actually writing [...]

Johan, Joomla!’s MVP

As noted on the Joomlatools blog, Johan Janssens has been highlighted as the top contributor to the Joomla! content management system and aside from tackling the code side of things he is well known on the Joomla! forums for offering support and advice where needed.
Spearheading the Joomla! 1.5 codebase and helping to develop new fresh [...]

New day, New polls

As most of you whom take the time to follow my blog will know i do like to run 4 polls at a time and get feedback from the Joomla! world on certain things, i recently posted the results on the last last of polls i did and was overly happy with the amount of [...]

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 [...]

Getting help without being an annoyance

I recently blogged on supporting open-source projects which looks to give those whom wish to help out open-source projects they use a few ideas on how they can help out and progress the project to further heights with just a little amount of involvement or small donations.
However at the same time there is the flip [...]