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Student Developers Try to Crack Joomla’s Core
posted by Michael Garrity @ 12:00 PM
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The widely used open-source content management system (CMS) Joomla will be participating in the Google Summer of Code program to allow students 18 and older to contribute to the company’s CMS core.
Google Summer of Code is an international program that gives students stipends (up to $5,000) to write code for open-source projects.
Eight different students will each be working on a separate project, and when they’re finished their work will be considered by Joomla for inclusion in its platform. Among the assignments are creating APIs for integrating Facebook and Google services onto a Joomla-powered website, MediaWiki APIs and multi-language options for Joomla installation.
Summer of Code ends on August 24, but the codes won’t be moved immediately into the Joomla CMS core; rather, they will continue to be developed, and may even be used by extension developers. Many of the projects involved in the program are focused on the Joomla platform, providing the infrastructure for the future development of the CMS and other applications that build upon it.
The Joomla platform generously allows developers to create multi-purpose and multi-device apps (including mobile and cloud computing applications) and enterprise systems that can be run independently of its core CMS offering.
Students working on Joomla projects span the globe, coming from Brazil, Sri Lanka, the United States, Romania and France.
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Open-source content management system Joomla has released version 2.5. Joomla has adopted a six-month release cycle recently so expect future developments (and coverage) to come more often.
Several new features have been released in this version including advanced search functionality (including natural language search, auto-complete and stemming), automatic notification of Joomla core and extension updates from the control panel, and most importantly, the CMS now includes multi-database support with the addition of Microsoft SQL Server (previous versions were compatible only with MySQL databases).
“Multi-database support is a huge step forward for Joomla, which is already powering more than 1.6 million websites worldwide. It ensures companies and organization, both large and small, will save even more money and time by adopting Joomla,” said Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters.
“No longer will Joomla developers be tied down to a particular database or have to spend more money and time integrating other software to get Joomla to communicate with their database. This enhances Joomla’s scalability immensely.”
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Best of 2011 – Content Management Systems
posted by Michael Garrity @ 4:00 PM
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The right content management system (CMS) can make all the
difference in the world when it comes to Web success, especially for small
businesses without big budgets to dedicate to IT and Web development
(although some of the largest brands in the world utilize content management
systems as well, so it’s hard not to stress their importance).
If you’re not already using a CMS, you probably should be
(considering it, at least); and if you are, are you sure that it’s the best
option? Here are five CMS companies who had great years in 2011, and could be
your saving grace in 2012.
Joomla
You’ve probably at least heard of Joomla before. Because it
is a free open source website creation tool, it often gets compared to Drupal
as a sort of WordPress.org knockoff, but in reality it is a much better system.
Like both WordPress and Drupal, Joomla allows you to build websites and Web
applications, and you can increase their functionality and flexibility by adding
“extensions” (feature add-ons similar to WordPress plugins). As a plus, the
most updated version of Joomla is even easier for new users to manage thanks in
part to refined admin panel, which makes it ideal for some not-so-savvy
business owners looking to make it big on the Web.
concrete5
Though aimed at marketers, this free open source CMS is a
useful tool for any Web professional, specifically because users are able to
edit content on the site directly from the page. This primary feature provides
“blocks” that can contain text, images or more complicated content like image
slideshows, comments systems, file lists, maps and more. The CMS also allows
users to connect their websites to the concrete5 Marketplace to automatically
upgrade software and downloaded or purchased add-ons.
ImpressCMS
This simple, secure and flexible community-developed CMS is
a great fit for businesses of any size. It is database-driven and fully
modularized so that users can install the modules that possess the features
they need and don’t have to bother with those that they don’t. It also features
multi-byte language support, a theme-based skinnable interface and worldwide
support through the ImpressCMS community.
CMS MadeSimple
CMS MadeSimple is a free, lightweight content management
solution that is especially applicable for smaller sites. Its robust user
interface includes a Web-based administration section for theme, template and
stylesheet development, the installation (and updating) of add-on modules,
configuring blocks of content on a page and managing user groups and permissions.
Etomite
For those who need to bolster their SEO practices, Etomite
is the ideal CMS. Because it allows the end user to control almost everything
about a website, from layout to meta tag generation, users can more easily
optimize their sites for search engine results pages. Some of the key features
include: Word processor-like (WYSIWYG) document editing to add tables, images and formated text to a page without HTML knowledge, a modern and intuitive interface, template-driven page design and free support. In addition, this CMS can also be incorporated with AJAX functionality without any AJAX system knowledge through a backend
editor.
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Open source content management system Joomla has had quite the year, announcing today that downloads have risen 38 percent from December 2010 to December 2011, brining the total number of downloads to a whopping 27 million.
It's not just the downloads, the rest of the Joomla ecosystem seems pretty healthy too. Joomla extensions developed by outside vendors increased by 41 percent annually to 8,475 as of October 31, 2011, and the number of forum users jumped 23 percent annually as of October 31, 2011, meaning more and more people are interacting to help shape Joomla.
"We've seen double and in some cases triple digit growth in Joomla's adoption since 2007," said Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, the not-for-profit created to provide organizational, legal and financial support to the Joomla project. "Part of what's driven this massive number of downloads is an explosion of community involvement in the project."
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