Blog Entries tagged 'cool services'

Get your fork out, Mambo did it again with MiaCMS.

Matt — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100

Those of you who have been around a while should rememeber Mambo, the CMS that our beloved Joomla is based off of. A few years back there was a bunch of bickering and discussion about how Mambo was to evolve and thus Joomla was spawned. Well, another fork of Mambo has popped out again, this time taking a bunch more developers and coders. This group has now created MiaCMS.

From the official MiaCMS website

The MiaCMS Story

MiaCMS is a fork of the Mambo CMS. W [...]

Flock. Get ready to meet your new favorite browser!

Matt — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100

http://flock.com/

Want a browser that is stable, functional, and incredibly useful? I think we all do. I have been using Camino for some time due to how fast it is but I have been using Firefox more and more due to me needing to do a lot more debugging and diagnosing of Web sites. The most recent versions have let me down a bit due to the betas being much crashier then I am accustomed to by Firefox.

Of course this isn't a post bashing Firefo [...]

Releasing a Joomla template is harder then you might imagine

Matt — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100

I have been on the front end of Joomla for years. Creating Web sites for clients, myself, friends, anybody who would pay, and even a few who wouldn't. I have always had a general idea of what it took for a template company to produce a template, but no real proof to validate my assumptions. JoomlaJunkie recently hired me on staff and gave me all the proof I needed to discover it is way more complicated then I ever dreamed.

Joomla templates are pretty straight forward. You come u [...]

Web 2.0 - what is it? And what does it mean for you and your business?

munaiba — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100

You may have heard the terms Web 2.0 and Social Networking bandied about more and more frequently. Do you know what they mean? More importantly, do you know what they mean for your business?

More interactive technology

Web 2.0 is the accepted term for the next generation of web technologies. These technologies provide a more interactive web experience and offer an immediacy that was lacking in static websites. Web 2.0 technologies allow visitors to your site to comment on your prod [...]

Fireboard 1.1.0 alpha

Matt — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100

A little under one year ago Joomlaboard announced it would merge with a new crew of developers and rebrand their popular forum component into Fireboard. Fireboard has dominated the category of self contained forum components ever since. Now, on it's one year anniversary they have announced a new version of Fireboard being developed to better cope with Joomla 1.5 and it's new structure.The new version will initially be built to adjust to changes to the Joomla core while still keeping [...]

Moourl - The web's cutest URL shortening service

stoker — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:00:00 +0100

Who's got a tiny what??

I'm talking about TINY URL's (universal resource locator). I am sure that many of you are familiar with the various url shortening services out there (such as the original tinyurl.com), but for those who don't here is a quick summary:

"TinyU [...]