Compass Designs

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!