This week we released DOCman 1.5.5. A couple of regressions were discovered after the releases of 1.5.3 and 1.5.4, which mostly affected IIS users (and local Windows installations). That's why we we decided to get the fixes out so soon. This should allow us to get back to our regular release schedule of +- 4 weeks. As usual, if you've bought DOCman 1.5, you will get the latest update by mail.
Would you like to be able to update your Drupal site and automatically send those updates to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, Ning and dozens of other sites?
This tutorial will show you how.
Our first part will be to create an RSS feed to export new posts. From there we'll use Twitterfeed.com and Ping.fm to distribute the posts to all our social networks.
We teach three kinds of website software: Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. At each class people bring different preconceived notions:
Drupal: "This stuff is really hard, right?"
Joomla: "This stuff is a quirky, right?"
Wordpress: "This stuff isn't very powerful, right?"
Our job is to convince them they're wrong. One of the reasons people think Wordpress isn't powerful is because they believe it can't be used to build an ordinary website with static pages.
Over the past 3 years Joomlatools has gone from strength to strength. Founded by Joomla Co-founder Johan Janssens and DOCman Lead Developer Mathias Verraes we soon grew with the addition of two more Joomla Co-Founders Peter Russell and Shayne Bartlett.
We now find ourselves expanding yet again, so it is with great pleasure that we announce two fantastic additions to the Joomlatools team.
Tom Janssens (yes... he's Johan's little brother) joins us as a Webmaster/Designer. Tom holds a Bachelors Degree in Information and Communications Technology. Tom is one of those talented
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Session storage is a very important aspect of web applications. In its simplest form, a PHP session allows data to be stored temporarily on the server and accessed throughout a user's time on the site. When that user leaves the site or is inactive for a certain amount of time, the data is destroyed. While anonymous sessions are common, sessions are usually associated with user logins. When a correct username/password combination is entered, a session is created around that user's access information and then read and checked every time that user loads a page. As a developer, you can
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One is warm, sunny and on the beautiful Pacific Ocean.
The other is cold, rainy and on the grey Thames (I'm allowed to make fun of it ... I was born in its suburbs)
San Francisco and London and nearly 5500 miles apart and you might not think they have much in common. Normally you'd be right, but this is an exception.
Next week we've got two Joomla classes, one in each
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This week's tutorial explains how to add metadata to your Drupal site. By default, Drupal has no fields for metadata. Check the source code at http://drupal.org and you'll see what I mean. To fix that issue, we recommend a module called Nodewords.
J! And Beyond is the first community driven International Joomla Conference, taking place in Germany, May 30 till June 1st. It grew out of the vibrant community site All Together As A Whole. This is the Joomla event of the year, you don't want to miss it!
The program is entirely up to you, as everyone can vote for presentations.
Short on the heels of our Productivity Pack for DOCman we are pleased to announce the immediate release of DOCman 1.5.3, our latest maintenance release.
DOCman 1.5.3 is the third release in the three months since we released DOCman 1.5, and in keeping with our commitment to provide the Joomla community with professionally developed and supported extensions.
DOCman 1.5.3 fixes a number of issues, as well as seeing more performance improvements. Notable changes include :
Debugging PHP applications has always been a bit of a challenge, as the environment is so distributed. At the minimum, there is a web server, the PHP interpreter, and the web browser. While there are tools that add debugging environments to PHP (such as XDebug), you don’t always have access to install them on the server you’re working with.
Fortunately, you can gain some reasonable debugging capabilities through FirePHP. When you want to dump objects or variables back to your browser without having to do so in
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Whether you are running an intranet or a public website, as an administrator, you often need to keep a close eye on what your users are doing. Especially when they are allowed to edit documents or upload new files. With DOCman Notify, it's easy to set up email notifications. Notify is part of the DOCman Productivity Pack. Tom made another great video tutorial, showing how it's done.
Would you like to be able to update your Joomla site and automatically send that update to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, Ning and dozens of other sites?
This tutorial will show you how.
Our first part will be to create an RSS feed to export all our new posts. From there we'll use Twitterfeed.com and Ping.fm to distribute the posts to all our social networks.
This tutorial was requested by a student who is learning the Drupal basics. They turned on "Clean URLs" in the Drupal admin area and were surprised to see that the URLs remained largely unchanged:
Old: /?q=node/3
New: /node/3
The student's comment was:
"that's still a silly address for my About Us page. I want the address to be /about-us/."
The solution is the "Pathauto" module and let's show you how to set it up:
This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and import it into your Joomla site. Each item on the RSS feed will become a separate Joomla article. We use this technique for a couple purposes:
Distributing our content to other Joomla sites. For example, we use this technique to showing these tutorials on Alledia.com.
Importing blogs and news on a particular topic from other sites. This way people can read them all in one place.
We're going to use a component called 4RSS
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Last week I was fortunate enough to be elected to the Open Source Matters board along with 5 others: After having a very U.S.-centric board, it's great to see such a wide diversity of new members. Add a Aussie and a penguin and we'd have someone from all seven continents :)
This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and import it into your Wordpress site. Each item on the RSS feed will become a separate Wordpress post. We use this technique for a couple purposes:
Distributing our content to other Wordpress sites.
Importing blogs and news on a particular topic from other sites. This way people can read them all in one place.
Did you know that you don't need to worry about creating thumbnails for your images or other documents yourself? All you need is the DOCman Thumbs plugin, which does all the work for you. It's part of the DOCman Productivity Pack. This video shows how easy it is:
Would you like to be able to update your Joomla site and automatically send that update to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, Ning and dozens of other sites?
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