Archive for the ‘Joomla’ Category
Jupgrade: fixing migration errors
Last week I challenged my first migration from Joomla 1.5 to 1.7. Jupgrade is a wonderful tool, it worked pretty well but leaved the categories tree in an unuseable state and made a big mess in the article’s ACL. The symptoms of the two problems are: some categories (non only in articles but also in [...]
2011-12-16
Joomla FAP accessible template ready for 1.7
Today I released the first public version of Jooma! FAP 1.7, the accessible suite for Joomla! which I’m developing since 2008. The suite was born to comply with the Italian regulation regarding web sites managed by public administrations, they must be not only accessible but also follow other technical requirements (like doctype XHTML 1.0 strict, [...]
Category: Joomla , Accessibility
2011-12-06
Corso introduttivo Joomla! a pinerolo
Un corso su Joomla! nell’ambito delle iniziative per il Linux Day 2011, organizzato dall’associazione SLiP (Software Libero Pinerolo).
Category: Joomla
2011-09-20
GeoContent Joomla component ready for 1.7, 2.5 and newer
GeoContent Plus is a Joomla! 1.7.x and 2.5.x component that let you easily embed beautiful Google Maps or OpenLayers Maps into your Joomla! 1.7.x and 2.5.x website.
GeoContent gives a geographical dimension to your Joomla! website.
Category: GIS , Joomla , WebGis
2011-09-09
Joomla 1.6 development: meaningful debugging
Hi there, just a quick note about how to stop the nightmare of Joomla 1.6 lack of debugging output. First, you should install Firebug for Joomla 1.6 plugin : now you can use fb() function to log variables directly in the Firefox firebug panel. Another nice trick I use is to put a vardie() function [...]
2011-07-15
Joomla FAP news
Finalmente, dopo un lungo periodo di inattività, sono riuscito a tornare a lavorare su Joomla FAP, il progetto che porto avanti da diversi anni per consentire a chi lo desidera di usare una versione accessibile di Joomla conforme alla legislazione vigente in Italia. In questi utimi mesi ho lavorato su diversi progetti, alcuni dei quali [...]
Category: Joomla , Accessibility
2011-04-29
Simple ACL ready for Joomla 1.5
Simple ACL SimpleACL for Joomla helps you to restrict front-end access to particular user/section combinations. You can independently set permission to read, insert and update content items based on the section they belongs to. The component does not override default Joomla roles, those roles are always checked first. SimpleACL plays only with default com_content component [...]
Category: Joomla
2010-09-24
Joomla Simple ACL recipes
This page is a collection of small recipes and hints about Simple ACL Joomla component. Note: this article is still a work in progress, please leave a message if you find errors, typos or if you have any suggestion or proposal. Abbreviations in the recipes: UX = “User X” where X is a number (for example U1 = User 1, [...]
Category: Joomla
2010-03-13
Serving Joomla static content from a different domain
Recently, we have been asked by a customer to perform some speed optimization on a heavy traffic Joomla website. After further investigations we came into the conclusion that routing all static content (images, CSS, Js) through apache webserver was opening too many connections and was one of the major causes of the website’s slowness . [...]
Category: Joomla
2009-09-24
GeoContent: a new Google Maps Joomla! component
I’m proud to announce the immediate availability of my new Google Maps Joomla component com GeoContent. This component is for Joomla! 1.5. Please check also the new GeoContentPlus component for Joomla! 1.7+ GeoContentis a new Joomla! 1.5 component that allows embedding Google Maps into a Joomla! website. Standard Joomla Articles, can be bound to geographic [...]
2009-05-11
