Compass Designs

Over at Copyblogger, Sonia Simone made a recent post about Getting Naked. No, it wasn't a college party, but rather the concept of being honest, sometimes painfully so in your blog. Current wisdom among bloggers is that this is a good standard to follow, you'll see popular bloggers ranging from Dooce, SEOMoz and even Joomla's Alledia sharing things that traditionally would be thought of as perhaps private. In each case, the sharing has been well received, and all importantly, worthy of traffic.

Due to demands we have been able to add another class at our Joomla University training event on the 17th may in Chicago -  "Building a Joomla site from Scratch in 3 hours". The Class will be taught by Brian Teeman.

Co-Founder of Joomla & Open Source Matters Inc, Brian was honored to receive the 2005 award for best UK contribution to Open Source software for his work. He has been working with faith based and voluntary sector organizations for over 25 years helping them to take advantage of the latest IT trends. (Yes he is older than he looks).

I am sure this class will fill up fast, so head to www.compassdesigns.net/training.html and sign up if you are interested.

We are proud to announce the beta release of our newest application to the Joomlashack product family.

The Joomlashack Template Builder 

Last week, the Joomla Extensions Team made a welcome change in how they are asking third party developers to post their extensions to extensions.joomla.org.

Previously, you could search for extensions that work with 1.5, but the results would include many (if not most) that only worked in legacy mode.

Well, that's been solved. 

What will be in Joomla 1.6?

As Joomla 1.5 was in development, a clear path was outlined that described much more frequent milstones in terms of development. This basically meant faster progression to add features as Joomla moved from 1.5 to 1.6 etc.

I came across a recent forum post by Andrew Eddie that stated we might see Joomla 1.6 as early as August!

Joomlashack is proud to release Jamba is our latest free template for Joomla!

You can use it for Joomla! 1.0 or Joomla! 1.5. Feel free to give it a whirl.

You may have visited one of the other popular blogs about Joomla at alledia.com. It's written by a fellow Brit living in the US, Steve Burge (he is going to be a fellow instructor at the upcoming Joomla University in Chicago). He recently wrote a post phpBB3 Integration Can Be The Joomla 1.5 Killer App. As we often seem to do, he scooped me on a post I had started to write about the exact same topic, thinking about what Joomla 1.5's Killer "must have" application might be.

I think I might offer some different answers than his thoughts about forums though.