Episode 19 - Search

Monday, 26 October 2009 10:42

The first episode in over 3 months focuses on Joomla and search. Mike takes a look at:

• Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2 released
• Joomla 1.5x Customization: Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs released. It's a good book and worth checking out. Buy through this link and you'll help The Joomla Podcast.
• Joomla and search: Mike looks at the built in search, Finder, and Google Custom Search Engines

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Episode 18 - Interview with Andrew Eddie Part 2

Friday, 19 June 2009 14:52

Today is (hopefully) the day where we can sink our teeth into trying Joomla 1.6 Alpha. Andrew Eddie was so kind to finish out the interview that we started in Part 1. In this episode, Andrew and I talk about:

• The free extension that Andrew gives away at The Art of Joomla, including the cleverly named Content Manager and Advanced Administrator Menu.
• What are Andrew's favorite and least favorite features of Joomla?
• What's in store for the future of Joomla? What will Joomla 2.0 look like?
• How can people get more involved in the Joomla project.

It's a good talk and spans about 30 minutes. Enjoy!

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Episode 17 - Interview with Andrew Eddie, Part 1

Monday, 15 June 2009 08:01

Want to learn more about the history of Joomla, the top features of Joomla 1.6, and more? Then listen in as Mike interviews Andrew Eddie, long time contributor to the Joomla project. Mike and Andrew discuss:

• The origins of Joomla, including its origins from Mambo.
• The top features in Joomla 1.6, including comments, ACL (access control lists), nested categories, and more. Lots of cool things I didn't know about!
• Things to look out for in Joomla 1.6—take note that there won't be any backwards compatibility with Joomla 1.0 or 1.5.
• How will migration to 1.6 work?
• Then we briefly say goodbye to Joomla 1.0, which won't be supported past July.

This interview will span two episodes, so be sure to check for the conclusion where we talk about the future of Joomla, and his favorite and least favorite feature of Joomla.

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Episode 16 - Quick Fire Update

Sunday, 31 May 2009 20:02

Been way too long since the last episode, but here it is! Episode 16 is out. In this episode Mike goes through a bunch of updates, including:

• Doggy Dish launches a Joomla Podcast. Mike disagrees with them about the best editor—JCE is superior to JoomlaFCK.
• JCE 1.5.3 comes out with new Word Paste feature. Sounds great.
• Mike's working on a photo comparision feature—do you have a favorite?
• Admin Praise2 is out—if you've been frustrated by the admin interface of Joomla, check it out
• Joomla Admin Mobile—If you have an iPhone, get this app. Let's you administer your sections, categories, articles, users, and menus. Hopefully they can build in support for other Components.
• New ways to create content for Joomla: ZOO and K2. Use one component to create content, make a download section, events, and more. Right now, K2 is more feature-complete and is free.
• Looking forward to the additions created by the Google Summer of Code: Front-end editing looks especially great.

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Episode 15 - CMS Showdown

Wednesday, 25 March 2009 20:56

Mike's first ever guest interview with Stephen Fisher, lead designer of the Joomla team at the CMS Showdown at South by Southwest (SxSW). Steve shares how he became involved with the showdown, how well Joomla did in the competition, and how the whole thing was a win for open source. I of course declare Joomla the winner by far. Steve also shares his insight into Tamka, the hot new set of blogging tools about to hit Joomla. And of course I can't let him off the hook without giving his one big complaint about Joomla.

I also talk about Joomla Day UK, and about some big news in the Joomla world: CCK (Custom Content Kit) has arrived in two forms with Zoo and K2. In a future episode I'll dive into these two really interesting components. Download Episode 15, or stream it:

Episode 14 - Advertising & Joomla - February 21, 2009

Saturday, 21 February 2009 17:56

Mike's back with a fresh new episode. This week he looks at:

• JXtended contributing ACL & comments to Joomla 1.6! Now when's the release date?
• Joomla Services Directory
• Advertising with Joomla: Mike looks at the different types of advertisng (flat rate, CPM, CPC) and three top tools to get the job done, including using the built-in Banner component, OpenX, and iJoomla Ad Agency.
• Mike's Extension Pick: JoomlaPack

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Episode 13 - January 13th, 2009

Tuesday, 13 January 2009 10:26

Sorry for the delay, but episode 13 is out! In this episode, Mike takes a look at:

• Joomla 1.5.9 released—fixes security issues and a bad bug where "Finish Publishing Date" was set the same as "Start Publishing" for articles created from the front end.

Big changes to the Joomla Extensions Directory:

• New look.
• This summer, will only be listing extensions for 1.5.
• Also this summer, will only be listing extensions that are non-encrypted and licensed under the GPL. What does this mean for users? For developers? Mike takes a look.

New Joomla Developers site is coming

Question of the month: How do you reset a Joomla password? Use phpMyAdmin. Would be nice if this tool was built into Joomla.

Episode 13 Top Extensions:

These both grant additional controls and features to modules that you already use, such as start and end dates, etc.

Metamod
Mod on any page

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Episode 12 - December 2nd, 2008

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 21:45

Mike's back from a little hiatus, doing some catchup with Joomla and focusing on:

• Joomla wins second place in the Packt Publishing "Overall Open Source CMS Award" and "Best Content Management System based on PHP/mySQL"
• Anyone going to CMSexpo? It's on Thursday and Friday.
• Read Jfoobar. Good blog about Joomla with posts about the upcoming ACL and Installer features in 1.6.
• Uploading & Flash 10 causing problems.

4 extensions to discuss:

• Jomsocial-New Joomla social networking king?
• jPress-Looks to be an exciting new set of blogging extensions for Joomla.
• J!Position-Great way to see modules on a page.
• Joomla Magic Updater-A great new way to update Joomla.

Rant of the week: why are there only two levels to organize content in Joomla?

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Episode 11 - October 20th, 2008

Monday, 20 October 2008 17:26

After a one week hiatus, Mike is back, and this week he looks at:

• 1.5.7 security issue?--Joomla responds
  
• Joomla forums matching new template
• Joomla events throughout Europe
• 1.6 development heating up
• 1.0 end-of-life date set
• Extension of the week: Mail2Joomla

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Episode 10 - Forms - October 4th, 2008

Saturday, 04 October 2008 15:29

This week Mike takes a look at:

• The Joomla Extensions Directory exploding with new additions
  
• Creating forms with Joomla, including a showdown between:
• Joomla's core Contact component-good only for basic contact forms
• Chronoforms-good for advanced users or those looking for something free. There's a gotcha though.
• Forms for Joomla 1.5-best UI, yet most expensive
• RSForm-probably the best for being inexpensive, powerful, and somewhat easy to use

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