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Tamka

A set of extensions to bring blogging power to Joomla! CMS.
My friend, designer Arno Zijlstra , just pinged me regarding a new Joomla! project that promises to bring “blogging power to individuals and communities” on the Joomla! Content Management System. The project is called Tamka (Speak Up!)
As a long-time Blogger (this blog is Blogger-powered) and [...]

Joomla! 1.5 Live

At last, after nearly 2 and a half years, the rebel alliance that broke away from Mambo CMS and became Joomla, has finally given birth to a new CMS…
Joomla! 1.5 is stable and officially released!
Download Joomla! 1.5 CMS.

Joomla! 1.0.14 RC1

Some people have reported Joomla! 1.0.x security issues and whilst the Joomla! core dev team have been busy working on Joomla! 1.5 they’ve not been slack in getting a fix for old 1.0.x users.
As such today sees the release of Joomla! 1.0.14 RC1, so if any users could install and test for issues we could [...]

Joomla! 100k

Joomla! CMS rolled in its 100,000th verified forum user yesterday. That’s 100,000 users in just over 18 months and officially “Joomla! has the largest Open Source CMS focused forum on the planet.”
Stats-wise the Joomla! forum has:

An average of 172 new user sign-up each day
765,000 posts
More than 1200 [...]

New Life in IT

New Life in IT is a premier web design company specialising in the provision of Open Source Software solutions.
With a firm footing in the Joomla! CMS arena, New Life in IT provide a depth of experience from Business Analysis & Consulting through Professional Training to some pretty funky enterprise level web development solutions… we know [...]

Wordpress 2.0.9 & 2.1.1

There’s new bug fix and security releases in versions Wordpress 2.0.9 and Wordpress 2.1.1

OS CMS Survey

If you are a commercial organisation using an Open Source Content Management System then you may be interested in participating in Isovera’s Open Source CMS Survey between Feb 22nd and Mar 19th.
Just 10 minutes long and optionally requiring an email address & web address (neither will be published) the survey aims to “better understand how [...]

Blogger Hijacks XML feeds

Last weekend I couldn’t log in to Blogger under my old username & password, I kept being redirected to the new Blogger login page. Whether it was a quirk of cookies, my machine or blogger forcing me to upgrade, I don’t know but I was desperate to post quickly so, until I moved to new [...]

WordPress 2.1

WooHoo. WordPress 2.1 Released today. It’s named after Ella Fitzgerald, the jazz singer, but hey, that’s up to them. 500+ bug fixes and some new features, requires PHP 4.2+, MySQL 4.0+
OK, we’re off to do a few installs

Drupal 5.0

Drupal 5.0 is released today on the 6th birthday of the Drupal CMS.
For those of you who don’t know it, Drupal is the CMS behind such as as WestHamFans.org, SpreadFireFox and the homepage of the man himself, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.