Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 35:
• The Guest User Group - Hiding menu items and module
• The 4 Pillars of Open Source Communities
• The VEL team is looking for new members.
• The birth of the Joomlerios Template and more importantly, community movement
• Emptying the trash in Joomla 1.7
• Tienda Joomla Templates Updated
• Our K2 Joomla Templates (updated)
• How To Build A Profitable Lifestyle Web App, Even If You’re Not A Developer – with Dane Maxwell
The Guest User Group - Hiding menu items and module
Written by Brian Teeman
A lot of work went in to preparing that presentation and I hope to be taking it around the world in the coming months. (If you can't wait to see it live or for the video you can see the slides now.) Reducing the "Hidden Secrets" to a 45 minute presentation sadly meant that some of them were dropped so I intend to write about them here instead.
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The 4 Pillars of Open Source Communities
Written by Steve Burge
In 2006 I quit my job to work full-time in open source. It was fortunate timing, because the years since then have seen extraordinary growth. What was once a hobby or a sideline has now taken over the web. It's almost certain that more than 20% of the web will run on either WordPress, Joomla or Drupal by the the end of 2011.
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The VEL team is looking for new members
Written by Mandville
An important part of the Joomla Community, the Vulnerable Extensions List team is looking for new members who can:
* Monitor security feeds and sites from various sources
* Identify greetz spam from real cases.
* Locate extension sites and developers from (sometimes) minimal information
* Are able to use the JED directory with confidence?
* Are able to follow simple rules and guidelines?
* Ideally be familiar with wiki (docs.joomla.org)
Read the complete post here...
The birth of the Joomlerios Template and more importantly, community movement
Written by Amy Stephen
Great video from Emerson Rocha Luiz as he builds the Joomlerios Template. The video covers creating a Template, Modules, positions, and so on, as Emerson integrates tools like 960 Grid System and Bootstrap into Joomla 1.7. It is a very helpful video for professional frontend devs to see the real power of Joomla for building professional websites.
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Emptying the trash in Joomla 1.7
Written by Matthew Hayashida
Joomla 1.7 has simplified much of the Joomla content workflow, making things easier and faster to do. However, one of the things that has gotten slightly more complicated is finding and emptying the trash.
In Joomla 1.5, I'm sure you know that the article trash can be easily managed and emptied by selecting Content > Article Trash from the main menu. In Joomla 1.7, that menu item is gone but the trash feature is still there.
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Tienda Joomla Templates Updated
Written by Anthony Olsen
Just a short note to let you know that the Shopfront, Zen Simpleshop and Shop Ignition Joomla templates have been updated to be compatible with the recently released Tienda v0.8.0.
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Our K2 Joomla Templates (updated)
Written by Anthony Olsen
Last week I posted how and where to check out which of our Joomla templates are compatible with Joomla 1.7 and today I thought I would point out that I have added a page where you can see which of our joomla templates are compatible with K2.