The Official Joomla Community site was launched earlier this year. Yesterday, the site reached 4000 members.

In this post, you'll meet Mary May from Brazil - she's member no. 4000.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 28.

There's a post on how to deploy large-scale websites, an post on an advantage Joomla has over WordPress (just one of many, IMO), as well as a commentary by Jeremy Wilken on the GPL feud going on in WordPress land. I'm happy those times are over for Joomla! ;)

Enjoy your week!

Just a day after the release of Joomla 1.5.19 with Mootools 1.2.4 support, the Joomla project announced another update: 1.5.20.

Apparently, there were some issues with 1.5.19. These have been adressed in this release.

As 1.5.20 is a security release, upgrade is adviced for all users.

Download Joomla 1.5.20

Yesterday, the Joomla! project released an update to the core: 1.5.19.

The update includes some medium level security updates. The biggest new feature in this update, though, is the support for version 1.2.4 of the the Mootools javascript framework.

Read on to learn what this means for your Joomla website and why it took over two years to get there.

The Joomla Project annouced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 5 (download) yesterday.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 4 release on Jun 28, the team has fixed approximately 65 issues in the tracker. Much of this progress is directly related to the stepped up efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad (and if I may say, thanks to the Joomla Forward initiative). Great work by everyone involved. If you haven't already done so, join the Bug Squad now!

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 27.

This week, you'll have the first part of a series on Joomla 1.6 from joomla.org, posts about the Joomla! Community Magazine and some posts about free Joomla! templates.

There is also a post about automated mobile device template switching in the new version of sh404sef, and more!

Enjoy!

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 26.

Enjoy!

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 25.

There's a very interesting post by Gary J. Brooks about the challenges with getting demo.joomla.org to work smoothly. Ryan Ozimek talks about new OSM leadership positions and the people assigned to them, there's a post on mobile Joomla sites, and Brian Teeman continues his series on "The Joomla World Cup" with a post about the Joomla powered site for the city of Johannesburg, to mention some of the post found this week.

Enjoy!

JomSocial, the social networking component for Joomla! CMS, today announced the availability of the latest release, JomSocial 1.8. This version features the highly-anticipated Events management and overall improved usability.

JomSocial 1.8 is codenamed "Wazi", which is Swahili for clear, openness and clarity. JomSocial 1.8 is also the first version of this extension to be released as GPL.