My Joomla News

Recently in the Joomla! Forums, user dping28 mentioned that there is a beta version of Community Builder 1.2 (current stable version is 1.1):

And just a FYI Community Builder they currently have a beta ver 1.2 that we are testing and its in the process of becomming 1.5 native so legacy mode wont be needed.. Hope this helps..

The Joomla! community has come to rely on certain CB features and plugins, that it will be a welcome relief when CB goes 1.5 native.

In other Social Networking news in Joomla!, the occasionally whispered CB alternative Anahita was mentioned again recently on the J! Forums, this is from Rastin Mehr, of rmd studio inc:

“The GPL version of Anahita is on the way, we are working on it every week, but please be patient we do need some time to coordinate things, for example the fact that Joomla 1.5 is finally stable has helped a lot. “ (Read Full Thread)

For an idea of the software philosophy behind the folks at rmd, you can see their article on Social Networking technology which they have named a Social Network Management System (SMS).

Fans of Anahita could be in an awkward position. Many Joomla! users (including myself) have benefited from years of using Community Builder, many are frustrated with the difficulty of using CB, as well as the clunky and old fashioned appearance of the component.

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Big update here. 121 fixes including 6 Security fixes. The CHANGELOG.php file labells them as Critical. Check out the update to check if they could fix any of your issues.

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Recently I posted about the Best of Joomla! team relaunching their new website. I speculated that it may involve a new Fireboard version, and boy was I wrong. The new website is now live. Check it out here.

Instead, we can see that the fruit of their work is a new community website that showcases the new template work from users, and a very elegant view into the user community of Fireboard users.

But if you view the forum, you will see a very slick new forum template, very slick. I don’t know how long they have been working on it, and if it has some design choices for their core template for future versions of Fireboard, but it is amazing. I really hope that it does not turn out to be a killer app that the BOJ team keep to themselves.

Here we go, another massive update to the CHANGELOG.PHP file. And what a beautiful sight. Here is my favourite:

23-Nov-2007 Sam Moffatt
^ Changed type=”module” to type=”modules” for admin back end menu area

What can I say, I’m a big fan of pluralism. Click on for the full update.

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