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Following the adventures of Nicholas as he continues to use Joomla!® to develop Artist Run Initative website Crawl.net.au

Top 10 Joomla! 1.6 White Papers!

This is cool, recently Andrew Eddie posted the Top 10 Joomla! 1.6 White Papers on the Joomla Developers Discussion Google Group. Here it is (links to the Joomla! forum page on the particular white paper):

10 Regarding ‘phoning home’ and PHP4/5 requirements
9 User Accounts extensible by Plugins
8 Save Triggers for Core Components
7 Modified Help System
6 Publishing dates handling improvement

Click on for the Final Five!

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Community Builder 1.2 coming this month, 2.0 coming this year!

Many people have probably read that Joomla! stalwart Community Builder is being updated to run natively on Joomla 1.5. You can read the announcement here.

But if you have been reading the CB forum thread on the announcement, you might have even seen this post from Beat (CB Developer):

Regarding roadmap: following releases are currently planed for 2008, with work already advanced quite well for all of them:

CB 1.2
CB 1.3
CB 2.0

Exciting stuff to be sure. Here’s hoping that the CB team can make their tight schedule. I’m also hoping that a 2.0 CB would entail a major design overhaul. It would be great to see the CB Profile page become properly modular, with plugins having much more freedom.

From what I have read, to achieve real flexibility in an elegant design, users need to purchase additional software. I am a supporter of professional developers, and I can understand why some developers make commercial products for open source projects. However, to sell a product which customizes an open source extension for an open source CMS, seems to going against the ecosystem slightly.

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This blog follows my experiences using the Joomla!® CMS as I continue to develop the website Crawl.net.au. This is an unofficial Joomla!® news blog run by a fan of the Joomla! project. Here you will find news and updates about future Joomla! releases as well as third party addons. The Joomla!® name is used under a limited license from Open Source Matters the worldwide trademark holder.

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