Do you want to learn how to become a "Rock Star" at Joomla development?. "Do The webinar" will teach you how do just that. Are you new programmer to Joomla? Do you want to grow your skills as a PHP Joomla developer? After this class you will be considering yourself as a pro. Join us today to learn from Daniel Dimitrov, Yves Hoppe on how to become that expert coder. This 2 day special webinar is one of a kind developer class that is built on the fundamentals of programming ... Read More...

We're really excited to present our newest Joomla 2.5 Extension - Matukio. Matukio is a very advanced Events Manger based on the well known extension com_seminar by Dirk Vollmar. We are putting much effort into transforming Matukio into an modern MVC Extension - in the last couple of month we ported and polished it for Joomla 2.5, added new features and fixed a bunch of bugs. Take a look at the Matukio - Detail page for an overview. We choose Seminar, because of its functionality, it... Read More...

Few days ago I decided to help Yves with a datetime bug in Matukio (dating back to its "Seminar" roots). Everything seemed to be straight forward. I've worked with JDate in the past and had some experience with timezones. So I took the challenge thinking that I'll spend 2h and everything would be fine. Well, as it often happens a 2h job turned to be a one and a half day job... (this could make a very good blog post about estimates, but I'll do that another time...) Le... Read More...

Today we present you another new Joomla 2.5 extension - Tiles. Tiles is a new way to present your content. You can use Tiles to show photos, present products or display news in an modern and unique way. Take a look at the Tiles - Detail page for an overview. You can see it live at the demo site or at the Compojoom Startsite. Tiles comes with three different Templates (simple, modern and compojoom) and many different scrolling effects, like Transitions or Scroll on Mouseover. You can style eve... Read More...

3 inShare In the beginning of the month Mailchimp unveiled a new service called Mandrill. Mandrill is a service that allows you to send transactional emails. The core features of it can be summarized in the following lines: Uses MailChimp's awesome email delivery engine Tracks opens and clicks Automatically adds Google Analytics tracking data to the URLs in the mail Has pretty, visual reports of the email results Allows you to tag the emails and see your st... Read More...