Joomla.org announced the release today of Joomla 1.5.3 literally a month since 1.5.2 was released. I like how the releases are consistently being released and how the dev team are setting realistic bite sized goals for each release. Keep up the great work guys!

"The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.3 [Vahi]. This release is earlier than scheduled in order to correct a database name validation error introduced in

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Dear Mr. Architect:

Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.

Keep in mind

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I am absolutely thrilled to say that Magento production release is officially available for download!!! Whoopeeee!!! I have been waiting for this day for a long time, now we just need to find some excuse to use it for something ;0)

In case you don't already know, Magento is an enterprise open source ecommerce platform. I have used many different ecommerce systems over the years and i can safely say that there is absolutely nothing that i have ever tested that

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Going through my feeds this morning, i noticed that Wordpress 2.5 stable is official available! Not only that. but Wordpress.org has also received a much needed facelift. I think they have done a great job and i find the new site to be a lot more inviting than its predescessor. I guess at the end of the day it comes down to a matter of opinion though :0)

I downloaded a copy of the RC1 release last week and was pleasantly surprised. I was a bit put off at first

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I've just got a google alert saying that JoomlaJunkie has just been added to yet another CSS Showcase sites, CSSVault! We have received so many kind words and really positive feedback since the site went live and its great to see this kind of recognition! If you have a spare minute, please go and show your support by voting!

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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:

"TinyURL (tinyurl.com) is a web service created by Kevin Gilbertson that provides short aliases to redirect long URLs. Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 because he wanted to be

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Whilst doing my usual rounds on the web this morning, I stumbled across a real gem. This particular gem is a simple (yet incredibly powerful) Markup Editor. You may be thinking that this is another WYSIWYG Editor (What You See Is What You Get), but it is a bit different. With a true WYSIWYG Editor it is exactly that - what your seeing is how your content will look. You don't actually see the markup (code) that constructs the html output. In the case of a Markup

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For those of you have aren't already aware, Joomla! 1.5.2 was released on Sunday. Its nice to see the dev team are set on releasing frequent updates to address outstanding issues. Though it is only a maintenance release, it still takes us one step closer to 1.6!

From Joomla.org:

"The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.2 [Woi]. This is a normal maintenance update. It has been eight weeks since Joomla! 1.5.1 was

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