A new sh404SEF release, version 1.5.8.432, was published yesterday that natively supports the popular social networking extension JomSocial as well as the forum application Kunena.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 14.

Brian takes a new shot at the Joomla Supporters Club idea, Alledia has a piece on how to automatically add joomla links to keywords, RocketTheme branches out to other areas (WP) and more.

Enjoy!

As I wrote a few days ago in my post about  recommended software for your small business, I use software from 37Signals. The guys behind 37Signals, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier-Hansson, have written a book called Rework.

In the book they outline the strategies which have made them such a successful company. And these strategies do not involve growing like mad, getting as much outside money as possible, spending wildly or work a crazy number of hours each day.

Rework is about doing things differently. Cut the crap, really. Do you really need long meetings? Do you need to control what every employee does every single minute? Do you really need outside money? Do everything have to be perfect before you launch it? The list of topics go on and on.

Open Source Matters and the Community Leadership Team announced today that CloudAccess.net has been selected to manage the Joomla! Demo Site.

OSM were particularly impressed with Cloud Access’ embrace of the goal to “Provide users who are considering the Joomla!® content management system with a simple and reliable way to try out its major features.” The Cloud Access team has excellent knowledge of Joomla! and will ensure that new users have sites that are set up optimally in terms of file ownership and other issues.

A while ago, Anthony Olsen over at Joomla Bamboo wrote a blog post about the software he uses daily to manage his business and get things done. This post is my view on the same subject.

However, I want to focus on the cloud software I use. That is, the online software I use daily. During the last couple of years I have put more and more of my information into online services. It frees me from a particular physical workspace. Thus, I can leave my computer at home and be able to do most of my work on any computer with internet access.

This approach has several benefits as I see it. Backup is taken care of, you’re not locked to a particular computer and software updates are done in the background. Web based services are also platform independent, so I can access the same information from any computer with a browser. It's also a great advantage when people in your team are scattered across the country, or in my case, across the globe.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 13.

I found the post by Brian Teeman about templates for Joomla 1.6 particularly interesting. The sample templates for Joomla 1.5 are quite outdated, and they could be better laid out as to help new users of Joomla understand the CMS better.

Enjoy the read!

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 12.

This week, there's an interesting post by Steve Burge from Alledia.com about Joomla Admin templates, a view on Open Source Matters and PR as well as other interesting Joomla reads.

Enjoy!

As a reader of JoomlaBlogger, you're now entitled to a 10% discount over at Joomla Bamboo.

Joomla Bamboo is a premium Joomla template developer. They specialize in minimalist templates with a really clean and nice designs.

I've used some of the templates and I love the way they are built. Some of the designs are done by the designer David Vuu, and are just beautiful to look at.

If you use Community Builder, you might want to take a look at the two new authentication plug-ins: The Community Builder Facebook and Twitter Connect plug-ins.

Community Building is all about membership and often a successful membership site is measured by its membership population. Sites that empower Facebook Connect or Twitter Sign-in technologies have been experiencing an increase in their membership attraction rate by as much as 40%! You can now put this technology to use on your Community Builder powered websites by downloading our latest Community Builder add-ons: the Community Builder Facebook Connect and Community Builder Twitter Connect plug-ins.

Community Builder 1.2.2 has just been released and is a recommended upgrade as it further strengthens security aspects of Community Builder.

This is done even though there are no known vulnerabilities in Community Builder 1.2 and Community Builder 1.2.1 releases.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 11.

Enjoy the read!

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 10. As always, there are a lot of good reads out there regarding Joomla. Enjoy!