Τετάρτη, Ιανουαρίου 03, 2007

Joomla Module What's New with Statistics ver.05.

At last I found some free time to continue my Joomla Module!

The new version (0.5) of What's New is a little different. First of all it is renamed to What's New with Statistics. I have developed two more modules, the What's New with Links and the What's New with Tabs. I will publish them soon but the component will take some time. Maybe it won't be needed, what do you say?

The What's New with Tabs will use the AJAX Tab Content Script from DynamicDrive and will be like the What's New with Links.

Anyway, What's New with Statistics ver.05 has three more options:
1) You can use the Bookmarks extension. It checks if the Bookmarks table exists so there is no problem if you make any wrong choice.
2) You can hide the zero results.
3) You can show a text in case there is nothing new.

I want to add a file for translation but I don't think it is needed.

You can download it from here. The server who hosts http://velonis.gr has a problem so I use my blog.

Enjoy it!

Παρασκευή, Δεκεμβρίου 29, 2006

VMWare machines

I am preparing a VMWare image with Fedora Core 6, Joomla 1.0.12 and Joomla 1.5 Beta version installed.

I need your help to the following:
* I don't know where to store it since our server is offline for a few weeks.

* I don't know what to uninstall from Fedora. I have uninstalled the bluetooth-relatives but not applications for developing and statistics. I have installed GNOME and I do not think that it would be better to have only text mode. The purpose is to use the virtual machine as localhost to test the Joomlas and develop anything else I want using Java, PHP etc.So the virtual machine contains the LAMP. I will add the Eclipse with a plugin for Joomla.

* I think that I could create another VMWare machine with DSL if I want to use it just as a "LiveCD". What do you think?

Joomla 1.0.12 !

Another stability release of Joomla 1.X instead of Joomla 1.5. As they say, it is not a security release because the security fixes are low level fixes.

Joomla! 1.0.12 features:

* 140+ General Bug Fixes
* Several low level security fixes
* A full security audit of SQL queries
* SSL switchover support

I can't say that 148+ General Bug Fixes is not a great update but come on we are waiting for months for Joomla 1.5.

Anyway you can see the Changelog and the Download,.

Πέμπτη, Οκτωβρίου 26, 2006

Joomla!Radio

Another new Joomla module is great. It is the Joomla!Radio module (click here).Joomla!Radio is also HOT because everybody wants to use a webradio station today. It includes 30 radiostations, I heard two of them and they are nice.

Joomla is one of the most popular open source CMS and that's why many people use it as their framework. In the last few days many extensions with brilliant ideas have been added in the extensions webpage. I wish all the 3rd party developers submitted more patches and less extensions!

What's New Module for Joomla

In less than one day the downloads of the first release were more than 100. Not to mention the extensions' webpage hits that were more than 300. That's great for me but there is something even better that I will report at the end.

It is very good that many people have sent me e-mails and comments suggesting other options and I will try to implement them all. Because of these e-mails I had another release in two days.

If you have any suggestion please send me your feedback through here. I may use Joomla Forge for a small forum, bugzilla etc but it needs some time in order to organise all the data. What bothers me is that I see many many other extensions not in the Joomla Forge but in their creator's sites. So I have a small hesitation. But time will tell.

Now I am working on the component that was my original thought but there is a big difference with the module. The module is only statistics and no details while the component is the opposite, no statistics and only details. It will show all the links for the new content and I know that it will be more usefull because many people asked for something like that and one of them was me!


As the extensions' team has commented, this module is HOT !
And as a friend of mine says "A man is as big as he stands".

Back to work now... :)