Joomla User Group
Sep/100
Another meeting of the Joomla London User Group took place yesterday in London. The user group is now 2 years old and is attended by about 10 people each monthly meeting.
A useful tip mentioned this meeting was about extending Joomla through the many add-ons available. The central place for find Joomla add-ons is the JED (Joomla Extensions Directory). This directory lists both commercial and free extensions. There are often several extenstions that tackle the same need so it can be hard to know which would be best. We advise that you check the views and reviews show in JED very carefully – if there only a few this can mean that the extension is not particularly popular and may lead to the developer abandoning it. It’s also worth looking at the ‘last updated’ date next to ‘Views’. Not all extensions need updates of course, but if an add-on has a recent update it’s a sign of an active project.
Joomla Extensions Directory
Some of the user group had been experimenting with Joomla 1.6, the tenth beta of which had just been released. They said there is still a way to go, and there a certain issues that remain unresolved. Clearly the final release isn’t going to appear just yet.
The user group meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month and you can find out more on their website.
Finally, Joomla!Day 2010 is taking place in Ipswitch, Suffolk from Saturday, 30th October to Sunday, 31st October 2010 inclusive.
Joomla hosting requires a certain environment on the server and 2020Media’s Joomla hosting is designed to deliver exactly the right specification for all Joomla websites.
Website Spark Enhanced
Jul/100
WebsiteSpark membership has expanded to include membership in the Microsoft Partner Network—and web professionals are now able to get listed on Microsoft Pinpoint. If you sign up you can showcase your applications and services, create new opportunities to generate sales leads and drive revenue, and view customer search criteria and traffic analyses of your profiles.
More info on our WebsiteSpark Offer
Joomla News
Jul/103
Joomla Hosting
Here’s a few extensions for Joomla CMS that we’ve found very useful so we thought’d we’d share them with you.
- jLoginAlert Emails you when someone tries to login to your site.
- Mobile Joomla Reformats your site to fit mobiles
- JoomArt Extensions Manager Centralised management and updating of extensions
- Docman document/download manager with user login, notifications and a big supporting community.
- VirtueMart free ecommerce extension that can also be used as a catalogue.
- ReDJ allows you to create short urls on your site that redirect to actual pages. See www.2020media.com/contact for an example.
Coming soon for Joomla fans is going to be the release of Joomla 1.6. This is actually quite a major update, the current 1.5 release has been going for around 3 years and the release of 1.6 will open up Joomla far more to integrate with other services. This is an approach the Drupal has used very successfully so its a case of Joomla catching up with how the web is developing now.
Brusells ICANN Meeting
Jun/100
Promotional items from potential new gTLD applicants
2020Media’s Management team attended the recent ICANN (policy making body for gTLD domains and IP numbers) meeting in Brussels, Belgium. The week long conference is part of ICANN 3 annual worldwide meetings to engage with all internet stakeholders, from representatives of government to non-commercial internet using private individuals.
The main topics for discussion were the release of new gTLD (global top level domain names), and the .xxx domain. The last was rather a moot point as ICANN revealed on the last public discussion that they had taken a decision in principle to approve the application, subject to various caveats. After an independent review which found ICANN’s previous decisions was flawed, the board really had few options left.
New domains like .shop, .canon, .london provoked much more discussion, this time about the various guidelines and rules that ICANN has come up with. ICANN is seeking comment on it’s latest release of the applicant guidebook.
Of note to the technically minded was further steps along the road to secure DNS (DNSSEC) with more top level domain signings. The root zone itself is due to go live in July.
10 Years of Tomcat
Jun/101
Apache Tomcat is the world’s most widely used web application server, with over one million downloads per month. Tomcat originated as a Sun Microsystems project, with the goal of providing an example implementation of Sun’s newly created Java Servlet and JSP specifications. Sun developed Tomcat internally through Tomcat 2.x. In 1999, the project was donated to the Apache Software Foundation, where it was developed under the Jakarta project.
Since becoming a separate project in 2005, Tomcat has been developed through version 6.x. The next version of the project, Tomcat 7, is expected sometime in late summer of 2010, corresponding with the release of Servlet 3, which Tomcat 7 will implement.
2020Media has supported servlet hosting for 11 years now. It was the first to offer shared Tomcat hosting in the UK – before Tomcat, it offered J-Run.
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