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August 2008 Issue of Joomla! Community Magazine
The August 2008 Joomla! Community Magazine (http://community.joomla.org/preview/issue/4-2008-08-joomla-community-magazine.html) is available now and it's loaded with cool stuff about the World's Greatest Open Source CMS. (Biased? pfff!) Month after month, you will find articles on Joomla! 1.5 Web sites, GPL-compatiable extensions, events, communities around the world, ways to get involved, learning resources for beginners, site integrators, and developers, and the latest buzz on what's happening in the Joomla! project.What kind of buzz, you ask? Well, this month, it's all about JoomlaConnect™ (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/535-introducing-joomlaconnect.html), a brand new service that aggregates Joomla! community news from all around the world. Joomla! Core Team member and Communications Team Lead Louis Landry (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/56-louis-landry.html) developed this nifty new tool for us to use. So, if you are interested in some RSS action, get your blog firing J!, and see Getting Connected to JoomlaConnect (http://community.joomla.org/connect/get-connected.html).Feature ArticlesThis month, Joomla! Core Team member and Development Working Group Coordinator, Andrew Eddie (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/66-andrew-eddie.html) kicks off the Features Section by revealing an encouraging external market survey (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/519-cms-market-share-report-joomla-in-top-3.html) that shows Joomla!, WordPress (http://wordpress.org), and Drupal (http://drupal.org) as leading Open Source CMSs worldwide. Hat tip to our friends and partners in free software. Andrew also discusses training resources (http://community.joomla.org/preview/article/520-empowering-joomla-developers-with-knowledge.html) for developers and calls on the faithful to lend a hand updating our dev doc. Come on, it'll make you feel good.This is very cool --> International award winning author and illustrator Sarah Verroken (http://community.joomla.org/preview/author/77-sarah-verroken.html) shares her creative process (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/525-joomla-15-web-site-sarah-verroken-award-winning-illustrator-and-author.html) that resulted in a captivating J! 1.5 Web site showcasing her unique and beautiful work. Then, more cool design --> Per André Rønsen (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/78-per-andre-ronsen.html) combines creative talents in theology, music, and design into a hot J! 1.5 Web site for Soul Kids (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/526-joomla-15-web-site-per-andre-ronsen-soul-kids.html).This month's Joomla! Forum Member of the Month (http://community.joomla.org/preview/article/523-joomla-forum-member--july-2008-marieke-van-der-tuin.html) is Marieke van der Tuin, undeniably one of the hardest working contributors in all of J! land. Oh, and make certain to check out the great, new GPL'ed extensions highlighted (http://community.joomla.org/preview/article/514-joomla-15-gpl-extensions-for-august-2008.html) by our very own Toni Marie (http://community.joomla.org/preview/author/57-toni-marie.html).Involved CommunityJoomla! is powered by an involved community all around the world. Case in point, Vancouver Joomla! Day organizer Wendy Robinson (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/80-wendy-robinson.html) shares Ten steps to a successful event (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/529-events-perspectives-from-a-joomla-day-organizer.html). On the other side of the planet, Chorn Sokun (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/82-chorn-sokun.html) and John T Denny (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/81-john-t-denny-phd.html) highlight what's going on with the Cambodian Joomla! community (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/530-international-joomla-users-group-of-cambodia-jugcam.html). Then, from San Francisco, Ron Severdia (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/74-ron-severdia.html), founder of PlayShakespeare.com, discusses his J! 1.5 site, also the subject of his recent CNN Comcast Newsmakers (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/518-community-involvement-playshakespearecom-featured-on-cnn.html) interview.Then, Joomla! developer, Alan Langford (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/72-.html) of Toronto shares a thoughtful piece on why he participates in Open Source (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/517-involvement-why-i-love-open-source-alan-langford.html) and Google Summer of Code participant, Mostafa Muhammad (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/83-mostafa-muhammad.html) sends Greetings from Wikimania 2008 (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/532-events-wikimania-conference.html) in Egypt. Core Team member and Fundraising Team Lead, Michelle Bisson (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/73-Michelle%20Bisson.html), (Wait a minute! Isn't that a lot of Mounties? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police)) invites the community to support Joomla! financially (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/516-involvement-support-joomla-2008-08-01.html). Give until it hurts. Well, at least give, if you are able, knowing every little bit helps...Joomla! LearningThere are several great articles aimed at skill development for Joomla! community members. Those just starting with Joomla! 1.5 are encouraged to read the Learning Joomla! using Sample Data (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/522-introductory-learning-joomla-using-sample-data.html) written by Mark Dexter (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/75-mark-dexter.html). Site Integrators will get good value from Sam Moffatt (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/524-site-integrator-improve-the-security-of-your-joomla-administrator-sam-moffatt.html)'s Improve the Security of your Joomla! Administrator (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/524-site-integrator-improve-the-security-of-your-joomla-administrator-sam-moffatt.html) article; practical tips from Andrew (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/66-andrew-eddie.html)'s Legacy Mode in Joomla! 1.5 (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/513-site-integrator-legacy-mode-in-joomla-15.html) and Search in Joomla! 1.5 (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/512-site-integrator-search-in-joomla-15.html) pieces; and inspiration from J! talent Jennifer Marriott (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/79-jennifer-marriott.html)'s Resources for Designers (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/527-site-integrator-resources-for-designers.html) article.For developers, Jens-Christian Skibakk's tutorial entitled Creating a single package for Admin and Site Languages (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/528-developer-creating-a-single-package-for-admin-and-site-languages.html) will help you take advantage of recent Installer improvements introduced by Jens. If you are geek enough, check out the tutorial Dynamic loading of lists using AJAX in a MVC component (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/531-developer-dynamic-loading-of-lists-using-ajax-in-a-mvc-component-mathieu-chauvinc.html) written by the very talented, Mathieu Chauvinc (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/531-developer-dynamic-loading-of-lists-using-ajax-in-a-mvc-component-mathieu-chauvinc.html).Joomla! Project Really good effort from the Joomla! project this month. Development Working Group Leads Sam Moffatt (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/author/64-sam-moffatt.html) and Anthony Ferrara (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/510-working-group-spotlight-joomla-bug-squad.html) share this month's release updates on Joomla! 1.5.4 and 1.5.5 (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/534-release-update-joomla-154-and-joomla-155.html) . The Joomla! Extensions Directory takes the Working Group spotlight (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/533-working-group-spotlight-joomla-extensions-directory.html) -- and exceeds 3,500 Joomla! Extensions! And, finally, there is that very cool announcement about JoomlaConnect™ (http://community.joomla.org/magazine/article/535-introducing-joomlaconnect.html).Next month?Much more, and even a bit more on top of that. So, come back and get some. September's line up is all firmed up but if you are interested in sharing an article with the Joomla! Community Magazine for October, we might have a spot for that. Just contact us at Joomla.Magazine@community.joomla.org (mailto:Joomla.Magazine@community.joomla.org) and let us know what you would like to share. Until then, have fun with Joomla!.
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Joomla! 1.5.5 Released
The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.5 [Mamni]. This is a quick turnaround release to address the Duplicate Title error from 1.5.4 (http://developer.joomla.org/coordinator-blog/188-154-duplicate-titles.html) . This release also contains important SEF URL improvements and fixes for com_content in addition to a number of bug fixes and improvements. It has been nearly three weeks since Joomla! 1.5.4 was released (content/view/5180/1/) on July 8, 2008. The Development Working Group (http://community.joomla.org/contributors/developers.html) 's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla! community.
Instructions
New installation (http://help.joomla.org/content/category/48/268/302/)
Upgrade from an existing Joomla! 1.5 version (http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrading_1.5_from_an_existing_1.5x_version)
Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x (http://docs.joomla.org/Migrating_from_1.0.x_to_1.5_Stable)
Download Joomla! 1.5.5 and update packages (http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse frs_package_id=3846)
Want to test drive Joomla!? Try the online demo (http://demo.joomla.org/) . Documentation is available (http://docs.joomla.org/Beginners) for beginners.
Release Notes
Fix Duplicate Titles Bug (content/view/5216/1/#dup)
SEF URL improvements and fixes for com_content (content/view/5216/1/#sef)
Fixed error restricting Search to Article content, only
Archived Articles now link correctly with SEF URLs
Category Blog pagination and Link List corrected
Category List Menu Item and Frontend now allow List length selection
Fixed Contact Item Bad Word parameter that prevented email
Private Messaging Search now returns results
SWF Banner correction allowing definition of dimensions
Improved 403 reporting for Submit Article and Web link permission issues
Register to Read More fixes for Newsflash
Page Break and Read More fixes
JA Purity Hornav position, login token code, and language string fixes
BEEZ fieldset alignments for Search and Read More link corrections
Installer fixes for updates to Components and Modules
mosmsg now used by 1.0.x extensions
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Packt Nominations for Open Source CMS Awards Begin Today!
July 14, 2008 marks the beginning of year three of Packt's friendly competition between world class free software communities for who earns bragging rights to the much coveted 2008 Best Overall Open Source CMS (http://www.packtpub.com/award). Not only is this recognition a great way to encourage, support, and reward the incredible efforts of free software communities, but, there is also a nice cash award shared with those projects fortunate enough to win.
The time for the Joomla! community to act is now!
Head over to Packt and nominate Joomla! for the Best Overall Open Source CMS Award (http://www.packtpub.com/article/nominate-overall-open-source-cms-winner/system/Joomla) and for the Best PHP Open Source CMS (http://www.packtpub.com/article/nominate-open-source-php-cms/system/Joomla). While you are there, check out the new Open Source CMS Most Valuable Player (http://www.packtpub.com/article/nominate-open-source-cms-mvp) award. Nominate (http://www.packtpub.com/article/nominate-open-source-cms-mvp) someone who has worked hard to make Joomla! better and has made it easier and more fun for others to get involved.
Help get the word out. Fire up those blogs. Post it on forums. Share it in your newsletters. E-mail your friends. Activate your RSS feeds because nominations begin today and continue until August 25th, 2008 (http://www.packtpub.com/award_timeline). Let's bring home the Best Overall Open Source CMS (http://www.packtpub.com/award) award for Joomla! in 2008!
Show your support by voting for Joomla! today (http://www.packtpub.com/article/nominate-overall-open-source-cms-winner/system/Joomla)!
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