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Archive for September, 2009

CMS Weekly Episode 34

CMSW2009-09-14

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Lovin’ what the folks at Arc did for Jelly Telly with Joomla CMS
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-08-24

One of the more popular presentations at the CMS Expo in Chicago was the show and tell by Arc Technology Group of the project they did for Jelly Telly. John Coonen tweeted about it this week, directing folks to jellytelly.com and arctg.com.Jellytelly was created by the same guy who created the wildly popular Veggie Tales children’s television to keep pace with the trends in technology that kids are following. JellyTelly is a commercial producer of family videos, made famous by the VeggieTales series that have been incredibly popular among families around the world for the past fifteen years – first on VHS and later on DVD. Arc Technology Group worked with them in a total revamp of their production and distribution process, and the resultant management system, built as Joomla extensions allows for a far deeper user experience than ever before. To provide an engaging user experience, the 3 or 4 minute videos are seamlessly built by background logic, ensuring a variation of content with every reload, and providing contextual links that pull the reader fur ther into the site. The component will be released in the near future – for general use – as a “video content manager for Joomla” component. We can expect it to be released under appropriate open source license by the end of 2009. If you have video management requirements on your Joomla site, this component will provide the content management that you need.

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46 Joomla Questions Answered
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-08-24

Barrie North has put up the transcripts. He held a highly successful free webinar on Joomla as part of promoting the second edition of my book on Safari Books Online. Ably assisted By Steve Burge of Alledia.com, we gave an hour long intro to Joomla, and were also able to answer many questions. 46 of them to be exact; here are the answers. —-Newbie questions included, what do you recommend for a forum that’s simple to administrate for a newbie? How about a community? A lot of questions on the 1.5 to 1.6. For instance, there are a lot of 1.5 extensions that rely on section category in the backend to display there content, will they work on 1.6?

His book got a strong review on Slashdot.org from Michael J. Ross. “There are countless content management systems (CMSs) available for building websites, and they offer varying levels of built-in functionality. But once a site developer has successfully installed any given CMS, a critical form of help (or hindrance) is the CMS’s documentation, which for some CMSs is quite impressive, and for others absolutely atrocious. Joomla is a powerful and popular choice for Web developers, but can be daunting to newbies confused by its non-intuitive menu structure and restrictive content hierarchy. The documentation for Joomla is frequently criticized, for various reasons, and that may largely account for the popularity of third-party books, such as Barrie M. North’s Joomla! 1.5: A User’s Guide, now in its second edition.”

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World of Twit: Apps and MashUps

Volacci – Ben Finklea

The Drupal Based

Introducing Open Atrium from Development Seed on Vimeo.

What to Expect in Joomla 1.6

Lifting The Lid on Joomla 1.6 from Andrew Smith on Vimeo.

Drupalcamp Colorado Summary Wrap-Up

Video referenced in Episode 23

Video Referenced in Episode 24

Guest: Tiffany Farriss

Founding Partner, Palantir, Inc.

Interviewer: Andy McCaskey

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