CMS Expo started just three years ago in Chicago. It grew from one day of Joomla training in 2008 to two days; and this year, they've grown again to a three full days of Joomla! training! That's 12 sessions of Joomla, for users of all levels, in addition to several sessions on extensions and add-ons such as FlexiContent, Tienda, RocketTheme's Gantry Framework and more.

This year, CMS Expo will feature OSM Board President Ryan Ozimek, who has been invited to keynote the CMS Expo, as well as present a Joomla! Roadmap Session. Ryan will join leaders from other major OS CMSes, including Drupal's Dries Buytaert, and Plone's Alex Limi and Alan Runyan. Founders and leaders from other major CMSes will be on-hand as well, including eZ Systems, Hippo CMS, Alfresco and ImpressCMS.

The four featured Learning Tracks for CMS Expo in 2010 are Joomal! Drupal, Plone and WordPress.

CMS Expo is a great place to meet over 50 CMS experts from around the world, all in a business casual atmosphere, in the spirit of open source, presenting on a multitude of relevant and timely subjects. See the CMS Expo website for the long list of learning sessions and speakers. It's amazing!

It's truly an intellectual braintrust you won't find anywhere else in the world. You're invited to be an important part of it, and join the CMS Community at CMS Expo.

It's not too late to register for CMS Expo! Tickets are just $279 / day or $779 for all 3 days.

Details:

CMS Expo Learning and Business Conference
When: May 3rd, 4th and 5th 2010
Where: Evanston, Illinois
Web Site: http://CMSExpo.net
Tickets: http://cmsx.us/tix
Phone: (815) 455-2900

If you have creativity running through your veins, and want to see your design applied to the new community portal at http://share.ez.no, do not wait any longer, participate, have fun and as a result get your creativity exposed to the broad audience of the eZ Publish Community and... get rewarded for your work :)

The eZ Publish community portal is where 35000+ members are registered, a fair amount of them stepping by daily to share ideas, experiences, code, translations, knowledge, tips & tricks and fun around eZ Publish. How about all of them seeing, every day, a "Designed by " plastered on all pages ?

The full description of the contest conditions, the functional brief and the wireframes are presented here : http://share.ez.no/design-contest While the 3 best designs are rewarded, the winner will receive :

• A Wacom Intuos Medium design tablet
• A free entry to the eZ Conference in june in Berlin

Robin Muilwijk,
Member of the community-driven share.ez.no team

In this article I want to explain the basics of profiling and profiling tools available in Joomla and PHP. In follow up articles I will explain the usage of the tools presented in this blog. I will also try to set up a performance analyses so we can see what the state of Joomla 1.6 is, but that is also for later concern. This article is based on tools that are freely available for almost all platforms.

For me it is still amazing to see this guy going strong after 4 years running around as Robin Hood of the Joomla project. Today is a special day; Robin Muilwijk former forum moderator and all times top poster (15.107 posts) has turned 40. Congratulations Robin with reaching this milestone and that new suit looks pretty awesome, hope it is not the new EzPublish power-suit because then the other CMS projects are in deep trouble :-D

So I needed to move to command line Subversion management since that doesn't come out of the box with Eclipse PDT. Very annoying, because I use the Subclipse add-on not only for committing, exporting or merging, I also use it to check certain commits with the history option, and most important I am lazy by nature (all coders seem to suffer from that habit). Posted a question on the Eclipse forum and sadly got no reply, but today I found the answer to my problems from which obviously more people suffer.

Create the shell script below, and this problem is fixed.

#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
{path to you eclipse install}/eclipse

Back to coding :-D

I want to present you a proposal which is based on a template and on a module which shows arcticles from your Joomla! website.

The template itself is made up of iPhone-optimized code including the iUI-Library of Joe Hewitt.This library helps the website to emulate a native iPhone App by using Javascript and CSS. Its goal is simply to turn ordinary standards-based HTML into a polished, usable interface that maps to iPhone interface conventions. You know from standard Apps the sliding pages, a header with Back-button and a menu, which is able to reload items using AJAX.

The big advantage is to load several iPhone pages at the same time so you have no delay when you navigate from page to page. This gives you a better useability especially when you are using EDGE connections. With not more than 16k the template is lightweight and fast.

I've been involved in serious e-commerce quite a bit at a company that ran a whole portfolio of large stores with many millions of revenue and have learned that e-commerce isn't just simply putting some products online and wait for customers to come by. E-commerce is a very active task and requires dedication and active marketing efforts to get the most out of your sales process. An important part of this overall active store management are the tools you have available to run your store, the e-commerce platform.

Dioscouri is a well established name in the Joomla! world for delivering great products and with those products a very solid support process. They've taken up the task to build the first Joomla! native full featured e-commerce platform and I've been talking to Rafael and Vika who lead Dioscouri about this platform extensively and I'm very exited about it.