It's Friday - what a day to visit jfoobar!

Not Too Late To Register For CMS Expo

Written by Wilco Jansen Monday, 26 April 2010 21:09

CMS Expo expects approximately 300 attendees to attend its 4th conference for web businesspeople, users and designers. To be held for three days, May 3rd through 5th, the CMS Expo will feature Joomla! along with three other CMSes - Drupal, Plone and WordPress.

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

Comments 0

eZ Publish design contest for the community portal

Written by Robin Muilwijk Thursday, 22 April 2010 19:00

With the recent launch of eZ Publish's new Community Portal, it is time to call for all designers to take out their pencils and paper. It is time for a design contest!

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

Comments 0

Profilers, profiles and profiling

Written by Wilco Jansen Saturday, 03 April 2010 14:22

It has been a while since I have been able to write any kind of blog due to insane busy schedule and lots of travel (almost Platinum member in less then 4 months :-D). Having some days off (and with that time to start writing) I ran into a discussion on the Joomla CMS development mailing list talking about the performance of Joomla 1.6 compared to Joomla 1.5. I replied with a very short hierarchical map of a basic page view that was created with Xdebug for profiling a simple profile snapshot.

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.

Comments 0

Merry Christmas from the JFoobar team

Written by Angie Radtke Wednesday, 23 December 2009 00:00

Comments 0

Mister Joomla turns 40...happy birthday Robin from the JFoobar team!

Written by Wilco Jansen Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:00

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

Comments 5

What if your buttons don' t work in Eclipse?

Written by Wilco Jansen Monday, 21 December 2009 18:14

Some time ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 64bits so I can use all 8Gb of RAM on board. All my applications work like a charm, the new Virtualbox 3.1 is even nicer but when I installed Eclipse PDT I noticed a problem with the buttons in screens after I tried to get the Subclipse application installed in the PDT installation...nothing worked!

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

Comments 1