20+ blogs about Joomla you should subscribe to

Before you start reading, this is a list of helpful blogs about Joomla, which means these blogs have more Joomla tips, tricks, tutorials etc than self-promotion of own products (IMHO). Fine line maybe, but an important one in this case.

Being fairly new to Joomla I’m constantly searching for online places to learn more and stay up-to-date. I get most of “what’s hot or not” via Twitter, but my favorite source of information and inspiration is Google reader.

I subscribed to quite a few good Joomla related rss feeds over the past year, but something was bothering me…surely this couldn’t be all active blogs about Joomla? Many of the blogs in my reader hadn’t been updated for donkey years, like nothing was happening in the Joomla sphere…or nobody blogged about it. (more…)

Tags: blogging, Joomla, Online Presence, open source

Vote for your favorite Joomla theme and extension

The Joomla! Award features 5 themes and 5 extensions finalists that have been selected by the Joomla! project representatives.

According to PacktPub, the following finalists were chosen based on: “a combination of methods like self nomination, popularity, and by judging whether they were the most interesting, creative or really useful projects for a specific purpose that they released in the past year” (more…)

Tags: events, Joomla, open source

Joomla 1.5.14 Released

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.14.

This release contains fixes for two material bugs that were introduced in version 1.5.13 and one low level security issue. Read the full release announcement here.

Tags: Joomla, news, open source

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

The Joomla Project – signs of maturity and leadership

A couple of days ago, Joomla announced “an important shift in the organisation and governance of the Joomla Project”. This post is an easy-to-read summary of what the original post talks about.

The change is focused on…

“…making it easier to fulfill our mission, achieve our vision and remain true to our values”

The change will help ensure…

“…that we remain focused on our mission to provide a flexible platform for digital publishing and collaboration”

Lets see what this really means:

Not only does it look like the transparency has improved, but three project keywords are explained in the announcement: simplifying, changing and shifting – each one clarified and summarized below. (more…)

Tags: Joomla, news, open source