WordPress Integration for Joomla! 1.5

08Feb10

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Pure blogging power!

Imagine the best blogging platform in existence, powerfully integrated into the best Content Management System available. What you get is WordPress for Joomla!, now available through ‘corePHP’. Even the most powerful Joomla! blogging extensions on the market don’t come close to the raw power of WordPress. Enjoy the best of both worlds!

WordPress for Joomla! works on Joomla! 1.5 native mode and Joomla! 1.5 legacy mode. Simply install the component as you would any other extension, and you’re set. Want convenience? WordPress will sync the user’s data every time they load the component to make sure all of the user’s information is accurate and up-to-date. Want to drop an editor to an author, or make a contributor an administrator? There’s no need to do it twice – WordPress will update the change as soon as the user logs in. Finally, the fully integrated solution you were looking for!

For your users’ convenience, WordPress for Joomla! is fully compliant with W3C standards.

What does WordPress for Joomla! have to offer? Below is the list of features we’ve added that are unique to our Joomla! version, a list of the modules included in our package and a list of the standard features provided by WordPress that are also included in this Joomla! component.

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A CMS plus a framework built for Web Workers

21Jan10

Web Standards CMS

Match even the wildest and most creative HTML/CSS/JS template fast. Pixel for pixel. Without having to know PHP.

We think that what comes out of a CMS should be exactly what you want. Exactly. No compromises. No worries about hacking the core code to get it to do what you want. No cumbersome upgrade paths. With MODx, that’s what you get.

Probably the biggest reason MODx was started in 2004 was that it was next to impossible to build sites that supported the clear future of websites: XHTML, CSS and Javascript. The fact that you typically had to hack the core code just to create a site that supports web standards was ridiculous. Or for those that were able to output clean, semantic code required an equally insane learning curve. Honestly, we needed a tool that didn’t get in the way of our needing to build sites quickly.

The question we were repeatedly frustrated by pretty much became why can’t the dang template in [insert CMS here] just be plain old HTML, CSS and JS? We weren’t looking to have to buy 400+ pages of treeware to learn how to mix up PHP and HTML to make a decent site.

We definitely weren’t looking for something that forced a limited document hierarchy, or required learning about nodes, or systems that considered everything an article or story. More rhetorical questions surfaced. If most sites start as a list of pages in a site map, why couldn’t our site building tool do the same thing. And what if we don’t want three or two columns and blocks everywhere?

Then came the issue of private pages that needed a login. The ability to create protected content without having to author a user system over and over again was a common need.

Why can’t we decide what our sites look like and are structured, not the tool we build them in? No restrictions. No assumptions about content.

In the end, our frustrations got the better of us.

We gave up our search and resolved to do the right thing for us and for our clients. Some systems had parts but not all. Out of necessity, we built the tool we needed and decided to share it with the world. Based on the hundreds of thousands of downloads from all over the world, apparently we weren’t the only ones with the same frustrations.


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Merry Christmas Wishes

25Dec09

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Scripting and Ajax

09Dec09

While the most common scripting language ECMAscript (more widely known as JavaScript) is developed by Ecma, a great many of the APIs made available in browsers have been defined at W3C.

What is scripting?

A script is program code that doesn’t need pre-processing (e.g. compiling) before being run. In the context of a Web browser, scripting usually refers to program code written in JavaScript that is executed by the browser when a page is downloaded, or in response to an event triggered by the user.

Scripting can make Web pages more dynamic. For example, without reloading a new version of a page it may allow modifications to the content of that page, or allow content to be added to or sent from that page. The former has been called DHTML (Dynamic HTML), and the latter AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML).

Beyond this, scripts increasingly allow developers to create a bridge between the browser and the platform it is running on, making it possible, for example, to create Web pages that incorporate information from the user’s environment, such as current location, address book details, etc.

This additional interactivity makes Web pages behave like a traditional software application. These Web pages are often called Web applications and can be made available either directly in the browser as a Web page, or can be packaged and distributed as Widgets.

What scripting interfaces are available ?

The most basic scripting interface developed at W3C is the DOM, the Document Object Model which allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. DOM specifications form the core of DHTML.

Modifications of the content using the DOM by the user and by scripts trigger events that developers can make use of to build rich user interfaces.

A number of more advanced interfaces are being standardized, for instance:

  • XMLHttpRequest makes it possible to load additional content from the Web without loading a new document, a core component of AJAX,
  • the Geolocation API makes the user’s current location available to browser-based applications,
  • several APIs make the integration of Web applications with the local file system and storage seamless.

WAI ARIA offers mechanisms to ensure that this additional interactivity remains usable independent of devices and disabilities. Additional considerations apply to the development of Web applications for mobile devices.


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Our Company celebrates its 10th Anniversary

03Nov09

a_logoMindfire Solutions celebrates its 10th Anniversary. A fun filled evening with all the employees riding on a great sense of nostalgia and success, brimming with confidence, took on the stage. The stage was on rock and roll and there was a sense of joy in the atmosphere. More to come up in our upcoming newsletter.IMG_4619


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Origo – Distributed Software Development

19Aug09

Origo is an open, modular and extensible software development, management and distribution platform. Aimed at software developers, Origo provides a set of services for combining, integrating and facilitating the development process over a network. Origo provides services like source control management, issue tracking, statistics, release hosting, wiki, blog and features for communicating and networking with other developers. An extensive API can be used to integrate Origo into other applications and development processes.

Origo was conceived as a research project of the Software Engineering chair at ETH Zürich, and has resulted in several theses. Recently ownership was transferred into an ETH spinoff, Oriact.

Released in August 2007, the platform as of August 2009 hosts 3,000 projects with over 6,500 developers worldwide.

Origo’s Features

Origo provides all the common features of a source control platform:

  • Source Control Management & hosting using Subversion
  • Release Hosting
  • Both open- and closed source projects
  • A wiki for presentation and documentation
  • Blogs and Forums
  • Bugtracker (“Issue Tracker”)
  • Community wiki pages
  • Jabber server
  • Networking by befriending other users
  • Process tracking through workitems

A user can own or be a member of any number of projects. While all projects are separate, the user can conveniently track the progress of the projects centrally, as all actions (source commits, wiki-edits, etc.) are tracked by Origo as “workitems”. Email notification for each project and each action can be configured. The concept of “simultaneous separation while centrally tracked” projects posed the biggest challenge for this site.


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Chrome OS Partners: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments

29Jul09

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Google is starting to respond to questions about the just announced Chrome operating system. In a short FAQ today they talked about cost and initial partners.

First of all, the software will be free, which was an easy assumption to make since it will be open source. Like Android, Google will not charge users or device manufacturers to use the Chrome OS.

Yesterday Google said they were already working with device manufacturers to roll out Chrome OS devices late next year. Today they announced at least some of those partners: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments.

Acer and ASUS are the no. 1 and no. 2 netbook manufacturers worldwide. HP and Lenovo are also large netbook manufacturers. Freescale, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments are chip companies that Google is likely working with to ensure a good user experience. What I’d really like to know is if Google is working with these or any other partners to release products off the ARM or Atom processors. A desktop or even dual core laptop running Chrome OS would be a compelling device too.

Google is clearly aiming Chrome at Windows, and focusing less on battery management (Android’s strength) to focus on robust driver support. Users will not be happy unless they can plug any printer, camera, or other peripheral device into these computers and have them work properly.

The other focus is on speed, which is why Google is working so closely with the chip guys. This isn’t going to just be Linux with a browser bolted on. It will be (or should be) a compelling user experience with super fast boot and web surfing times.


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Google’s Chrome OS: what it means, why it matters

14Jul09

Well, that didn’t take long. Last night, we reported that sources inside and outside Google were su

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ggesting that the company would announce a Chrome-centered OS within a matter of days. It turned out to be a matter of hours. Late Tuesday night, the Google Blog officially announced that the Google Chrome OS was a reality and would appear on netbooks some time later next year.

The announcement contained a thesis statement that is a bit more significant than it might appear at first: “It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.” That statement has both strategic and practical implications, which we’ll consider in turn.

From a strategic perspective, “what operating systems should be” clearly involves a heavy dose of Google-driven Web apps, from e-mail to spreadsheets. The entire OS will be focused on getting users into a Web browser as quickly as possible; any other applications will be secondary and probably not provided by Google. Instead, once the browser launches, users can do their computing via online applications, saving their data in the cloud (think of all those “gDrive” rumors from the last few years).

Google views this as computing nirvana for users, saying, “[Users] want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files.”

But there are still a variety of applications that simply can’t be replicated within a browser, and consumers have had a mixed reaction to Google’s own apps, embracing Gmail but finding its presentation software to be severely limited compared to its desktop app counterparts. But the Chrome OS will be appearing first on netbooks, which can’t handle some of the more heavyweight desktop applications in the first place. And the new offering has the potential to drive users to rely on Google’s online offerings, which certainly would further the company’s goals.

Of course, the cloud is only useful if it’s accessible, and staying online isn’t always convenient or cheap at this stage. The new offline storage capabilities in the latest Web standards certainly limit the impact of temporary disconnection and, by controlling the whole software stack, Google has the opportunity to make sure its applications play nicely when the computer happens to be offline.

From a technological perspective, there appear to be some interesting aspects to rethinking the operating system. For one, by having an extremely narrow focus—bringing up a networking stack and browser as quickly as possible—Chrome OS has the ability to cut down on the hassles related to restarting and hibernating computers. And, aside from the browser, all of the key applications will reside online, security and other software updates won’t happen on the computer itself, which should also improve the user experience.

From a security perspective, Google claims that it will be “completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS” in a way that eliminates virus and malware worries. The sandboxing and process isolation that Google has built into the Chrome browser undoubtedly provide much of that security, so it’s unclear what will have to happen at the OS level; it’s possible that Google will be looking at ways to extend this level of security to third party apps.

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Google Chrome, Next OS?

13Jul09

Google announced on it’s official blog that CHROME is the next OS for netbooks.

After I went through their announcement, I found that they’re more focused on speed,simplicity and security. They’re working with big names like Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. I’ve not read a single word on multimedia. Operating System, as a definitive term, is evolving or being changed by group of people. Anyone expecting to play around with fullblown content on Google OS, forget about it. Speed, simplicity and security has lots of restrictions being put up.

Google Chrome sounds good for people on the go, who need nothing more than information real quick, be able to communicate faster than ever and has nothing to do with gaming and multimedia rich stuff like that.

On top of that Google Chrome(Browser turned/termed OS) is being built on Linux kernel. So, it’ll be the one of those Linux variations. It’s just to see how Google would end up making it up hasslefree.

And, I’m one of those guys who extremely hate Linux for desktop use. Google might change that view towards Linux. Time will tell.

Granted, It’s Free and open source project, there is no harm trying it next year. You’ve no moral rights to file complain if anything went wrong while using free OS albeit there is wide array of community based support which I again think sucks. But, what this also means the affordability. You might end up paying 20%-30% less on the same computer.

For now, I’m holding on to Windows 7, waiting for it to be released on Oct 22nd, no matter what.

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Joomla Team Launches Joomla Resources Directory

19Jun09

Calling all Joomla (news, site) fans! Back in January of this year, a seed was planted. That is, Joomla core team member Sam Moffat posted a blog entry that spawned comments around the desire for a better way to connect the Joomla community—specifically, users and developers.

A handful of similar posts followed on the Joomla blog, and the response from the community went from seemingly mild to “overwhelming,” as their website states. The result? The brand spankin’ new Joomla Resource Directory (JRD), which was pre-launched in May and finally went live earlier this month.

Bringing their new offering to the table along with much enthusiasm, the team claims that there’s no easier way to find developers, service providers, and other valuable resources.

“We think this will be a great way to connect end-users and service providers in the Joomla Community,” said Wendy Robinson of the JRD Team.”Most small businesses can’t afford to advertise on the Joomla.org sites and this will provide them wide exposure. With close to a million visitors and 14 million page views a month, the JED has proven that there is wide interest in products related to Joomla.”

So far it looks like the majority of Joomla fans are pleased with the new directory, if only, perhaps, because they now have something to tide them over until the much anticipated release of Joomla 1.6.

Interested? Head on over to www.resources.joomla.org.


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