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Details: Category: News; Published: 10 October 2013; Last Updated: 10 October 2013; Hits: 15350

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Its been a hectic and diverse, yet productive period for the CB Team:

Beat has been contributing to the Joomla UX team and to the Joomla App-store project for the upcoming Joomla 3.2 release
Nick has been travelling and presenting at JoomlaDay UK 2013 and at CIVICON London
Kyle has been holding the support fort and getting CB 1.10 ready for beta, RC and public release phases. Plus, his support is being noticed and appreciated with awesome reviews on our JED listing!

Details: Category: News; Published: 17 September 2013; Last Updated: 17 September 2013; Hits: 4861

Eight years ago Joomla 1.0 was released.

Since then Joomla has grown into one of the most popular free (as in beer and as in freedom) Content Management Systems for websites.

With close to 45 million downloads, 7000 listings on the Joomla! Extensions Directory, hundreds of worldwide user groups and a thriving community, the future of Joomla is looking awesome!

Community Builder and Joomlapolis have been contributing to and supporting Joomla since the beginning.

Happy 8th Anniversary Joomla!

Read the announcement on joomla.org.

image by @Helvecio

Details: Category: News; Published: 08 September 2013; Last Updated: 09 September 2013; Hits: 4658

joomla Joomlapolis and the Community Builder team have been continuously supporting Joomla in many ways.

Here is a list of our latest contributions:

Beat is part of the JUX Team pushing to improve the Joomla user experience
Beat is also participating in the Joomla app-store initiative waiting to be included in Joomla 3.2
Nick authored the joomla.org community article: The Potential of Joomla 3.2
Joomlapolis promoted the Joomla 3.2 effort with its Joomla 3.2 potential for awesomeness article
Joomlapolis is sponsoring the Joomla Day Switzerland 2013 event and Beat will also be attending and speaking and also participating in the planned JUX Code sprint.
Joomlapolis is sponsoring the Joomla Day UK 2013 event and Nick is scheduled to give 3 presentations
Joomlapolitans get a 10% off discount on delegate tickets for the JDay UK event by using the discount code CB-JDUK-10
Nick will be attending the CiviCRM CiviCon London event and will be promoting Joomla with his Joomla2CiviCRM user sync plugin presentation

Joomlapolis has also been sponsoring the JandBeyond event since the beginning and during the past 3 years as the main Video sponsor.

It is true that Joomlapolis is a commercial effort, but it is also true that there is a clear lets give back to the community focus that has been keeping this 500,000 + members community strong and prosperous.

Details: Category: News; Published: 02 September 2013; Last Updated: 06 September 2013; Hits: 13907

I just wrote a blog for the joomla.org site about the potential of Joomla 3.2.

I was well aware that lately many of the third party developers I know have been spending lots of time contributing to Joomla. Beat from the CB Team has been very active in the JUX team and in the Joomla app-store team. I have been hearing lots of excitement from many different people about the nice things being implemented for Joomla 3.2.

I decided to get involved and thus my joomla.org blog contribution and my video preview of the app-store.

After researching the current status of the Joomla features tracker, I quickly came to the conclusion that Joomla 3.2 has awesome potential as there are many fantastic new features knocking on Joomla's 3.2 front door.

With over 70! features in 'Ready for review' or 'Pending' status, Joomla 3.2 has many heavy-hitter features lined-up for its release.

You can check out all 70 features on the Joomla Features tracker - my 'magnificent seven' list is:

Content versioning for Joomla articles and article categories - video preview
Saving and restoring versions of Joomla articles has been a very much requested feature that is ready for review,
App store (new name pending) - video preview
Browse and install Joomla extensions (JED listings) from your Joomla website administration panel.
JUX Team imporvements - video preview
Many usability improvements for Joomla that will make things friendlier with less clutter.
Two factor authentication for Joomla
Extra security for Joomla logins with two factor authentication using one-time password technology.
Joomla Rapid Application Development (RAD) layer.
This new layer will make extension development easier and should help foster new Joomla extensions.
Ajax Interface for Joomla
Introduces Ajax interface in Joomla that can be used by Joomla extensions.
Improved Template Manager
New Template Manager with file management and editing built in to help clone and modify Joomla templates right from your Joomla administration panel.

There is always need for your involvement - this is the only way to make things happen. The Joomla project needs your help designing, coding, testing and documenting. I am closing this blog with a statement I included in my joomla.org community blog:

Join the Joomla! Bug Squad (JBS) and help the testing process. If you are a Joomla user and rely on Joomla for your websites, then help yourself now by helping to test features and code that you will be using tomorrow. The more we test, the more new quality features will get into Joomla 3.2.

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