Posts tagged Programming

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 [...]

DOCman Alphapoints Plugins

I’ve been asked a few times now if my alphapoints rules and modifications are applicable to DOCman 1.4.x or DOCman 1.5.x, the rules themselves we’re put in when Alphapoints were first released way back when it was still beta if i recall so yes they very likely could be greatly improved. However they are fully [...]

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 [...]

IRCReport moving to Joomla

A few people will knowthat I happen to be the founder, webmaster all be it and all wonderful person of IRCReport an Internet Relay Chat Resources site, in recent times i have hopped around with IRCReport changing the feel of it every so often for a whole new look and of course this has made [...]

Joomla! extensions

As a handful of people will be aware I have put together the odd Joomla hack from time to time all of which can be found on the Joomla! extensions directory. I plan to do a few updates and make sure they are still compatible with everything they plug into.
My addons are just small items [...]

DOCman 1.5

DOCman being one of the most popular components for Joomla! is not hard to understand really, the DOCman 1.3 version contained early elements of what Joomla! 1.5 would use and was carried over into 1.4.x you should in theory say that DOCman was the early testing ground for some of Joomla! 1.5’s key features.
The component [...]

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 [...]