Webdesign meets business meets development at CMS Expo in May

For all of you working with Joomla, Wordpress, Plone or other CMS, this blog post is about an event we warmly recommend for your “A, B, C, D’s of CMS” – that’s your Administrators, Businesspeople, Creatives and Developers.

We do not often recommend international business events, but based on experience we know this one is an all-in-one, inspiring, high-energy mix of sessions for everybody in your office.

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Tags: business, Design, development, Drupal, events, Joomla, plone, Wordpress

Drupal 6.13 and 5.19 released

Drupal 5.19 and 6.13 were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. There are no new features in these releases, but Drupal security team strongly recommend you upgrade your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites.

Only fixes for security vulnerabilities and other bugs have been committed. New features are only being added to the forthcoming Drupal 7.0 release. Read the complete release announcement here.

Sites are urged to upgrade immediately after reading the official security announcement: SA-CORE-2009-007 Drupal core – Multiple vulnerabilities.

Drupal 6.13

The full list of changes between the 6.12 and 6.13 releases can be found by reading the Drupal 6.13 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable DRUPAL-6 branch can be found here.

Drupal 5.19

The full list of changes between the 5.18 and 5.19 releases can be found by reading the 5.19 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable DRUPAL-5 branch can be found here.

Tags: development, Drupal, Hosting and Security, open source

CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference

We attended CMS Expo in Denver last year and it was a blast! :) Unfortunately we won’t be present in Chicago, but thanks to John from CMS Association we’ve worked out a bonus for all of you instead!

The CMS Association invites you to come for two high-energy days of training on top CMS solutions Joomla, Drupal and Alfresco.

When is CMS Expo in Chicago?
April 30th – May 1st, 2009

Where is it exactly?
Chicago: Hotel Orrington, Evanston, Illinois USA

Who should attend CMS expo?

CMS Expo is an event for Content Management Professionals at all skill levels: (more…)

Tags: CMS, Drupal, events, Joomla, open source

CCK for Joomla? Say hello to K2!

Our friends over at JoomlaWorks.gr have been sneaky little devils over the past couple of months (either that or we’ve just been to darn busy crafting away on our own secret projects to stay in the loop) working on something which has been much needed in the JoomlaSphere.

For any of you who are familiar with Drupal and the much loved extension, CCK (Content Construction Kit), you will know how incredibly powerful this extension is to literally any website. What it does is allow you to create any type of custom content your heart desires.

Whether its a product page, blog, directory listing, news or customer testimonial – the options are endless! This is something i have personally missed in the Joomla! Community for a long time and one of the initial reasons why i got my hands dirty with Drupal. (more…)

Tags: development, Drupal, Joomla, technology