BAD NAUHEIM, GERMANY--(Marketwire -05/21/12)- Joomla, one of the world's most popular content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announced the winners of the third annual Joomla Open Source Creative and Artistic Recognition Awards (J!OSCAR). The Joomla community, consisting of thousands of developers, voted on and handed out the awards at the 2012 J and Beyond Conference held May 18-20 2012 at the Dolce Hotel in Bad Nauheim, Germany. The J and Beyond Conference is the Joomla community's largest international conference.
The 2012 winners are:
"The J!OSCAR Awards are given to the very best talent in the Joomla community and we are proud to recognize more than a dozen companies and people this year," said Victor Drover, who oversaw this year's J!OSCAR awards and is part of the Joomla Events team. "Without their contribution, Joomla wouldn't be able to grow like it has."
About Joomla! Joomla is one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS). With 2.8 percent of the Web running on Joomla, it is used for everything from small personal websites and blogs to some of the largest enterprise, highest trafficked websites and Intranets including those operated by Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea, McDonald's, Sony, many large nations and more. Due to its power and elegance, the most inexperienced user to the most seasoned web developer can use it. Since its inception in 2005, Joomla has been 100 percent community owned and operated. The Joomla community is a true collaboration of thousands of open source developers and millions of everyday users who account for its software being downloaded more than 31 million times to date. For more information, visit http://www.joomla.org.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -05/08/12)- Joomla, one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announced students will contribute to the Joomla CMS core and platform this summer as part of the Google Summer of Code. In all, there are eight students that are working on eight separate projects that may eventually be used by Joomla. These assignments include creating Facebook, Google services and MediaWiki APIs, multi-language options for installation, and much more. The Google Summer of Code is a global program that runs until August 24, offering students 18 years and older stipends to write code for open source projects.
The students working on Joomla projects are from Brazil, France, Romania, Sri Lanka and the United States. One such student is Aaron Schmitz who at just 18 years old is finishing up his junior year at the University of Minnesota and was the top American finisher at the Google Code-in competition, an open source coding competition for 13 to 17 year-old students. "It's exciting to be able to contribute to code that may eventually be incorporated into the Joomla core code that is used by millions of people to manage content on more than a million websites," said Schmitz.
Some of the assignments the students will be working on include:
"We're excited to see what kind of code these students come up with, but we're equally as excited to have these students join the Joomla community," said Elin Waring of the Joomla Production Working Group who is co-administering the Google Summer of Code projects. "The end goal with Joomla developers is all about creating code that millions of people use, but it is the interaction and sharing of ideas in our community that makes Joomla tick."
Although the students' code won't all be immediately committed to the Joomla CMS core at the end of the summer, it will continue to be developed for the core and may be used by extension developers. Many of the Google Summer of Code projects are focused on the Joomla Platform which provides the infrastructure that future development in the Joomla CMS and other applications build on. The Joomla Platform enables developers to build multi-purpose, multi-device applications like mobile and cloud computing apps, and enterprise business systems that can run independent from the core CMS.
For the next three months, the eight students will be working on coding for their Joomla assignments. They will present their projects to the Joomla community in mid-August. On August 24, students will find out whether their code is acceptable. They have the potential to receive a $5000 stipend from Google for participating, to be paid out in installments. More information about Joomla's Google Summer of Code students and all of the projects they are working on, go to http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1571-were-off-to-the-races.html.
About Joomla! Joomla is one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS). With 2.7 percent of the Web running on Joomla, it is used for everything from small personal websites and blogs to some of the largest enterprise, highest trafficked websites and Intranets including those operated by Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea, McDonald's, Sony, many large nations and more. Due to its power and elegance, the most inexperienced user to the most seasoned web developer can use it. Since its inception in 2005, Joomla has been 100 percent community owned and operated. The Joomla community is a true collaboration of thousands of open source developers and millions of everyday users who account for its software being downloaded more than 31 million times to date. For more information, visit http://www.joomla.org.
TCWH releases Joomla web hosting tutorial for 2012 to help people find a reliable Joomla web hosting risk-free and worry-free.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 14, 2012
The leading web hosting review site Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com (TCWH) launches a new tutorial category for hosting Joomla with their Joomla web hosting review and rating page. The Joomla hosting tutorial is designed to help people find a reliable web host for Joomla by a series of introduction on Joomla shared web hosting prerequisite, Joomla installation, Joomla migration, and Joomla site SEO.
Joomla is the most popular software used to build weblog and large content based websites widely. The typical large sized clients include AOL Corporate, New York Observer, and Sony Music. Joomla is quite easy to create a website or blog because of the visual and easy-to-use user interface. Meanwhile, there are over thousands free Joomla themes, widgets and modules in the community that webmasters can customize their preferable websites easily.
As introduced by TCWH, finding a trust-worth web hosting for Joomla is not easy as using it, even for some senior PHP and Joomla developers. The choice of web hosting based on the apparent features is not trust-worth. The handy tutorials from TCWH are all written based on the practical experience from their knowledgeable technicians, to help people select a proper domain name, find the best web host, create a Joomla site, customize Joomla site, manage site content, and promote site over the Internet.
By following the Joomla hosting tutorial, TCWH had also come out a sorted list of Top 10 Joomla Hosting based on the checkpoints as below. #1 - Joomla integration for how easy people can get start their website. #2 - Joomla themes, widgets and extended modules included with the Joomla web hosting plan. #3 - Joomla optimization features including GZIP, URL Rewrite, etc. #4 - Joomla web hosting performance and reliability. #5 - affordable Joomla web hosting price.
About Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com is an independent web hosting review website, rating web hosts based on their real experience and the real customer voice. The site is designed to help people find the best web hosting deal at an affordable rate.
In Part 1 of this series, I talked about the building blocks of delivering video across all major desktop and mobile platforms using HTML5 and Flash Player. I provided some simple examples of HTML5 markup, including a way to start with HTML5 and fall back to Flash, as well as an example that begins with Flash Player and falls back to HTML5.
A large part of the article, however, talked about the foundation of this process: the video containers, and audio and video codecs used therein. Unfortunately, the changing landscape of HTML5s journey to ratification, and the degree of the playback puzzle left up to each browser, made this depth helpful, if not necessary.
In this installment, Ill take a break from the heavy lifting and talk about existing players and services that can do the work for you. Then, in the coming weeks, Ill wrap up the final installment of the series with a return to the DIY mindset and provide an overview of a few encoding options, as well as a basic discussion about writing your own JavaScript player when custom solutions are required.
So, without further ado, here are my top five cross-platform video players.
Video for Everybody is one of the earliest solutions to support HTML5 and Flash video, and is also the simplest. It consists of a very basic set of markup that uses HTML5s ability to move to the next supported object if the prior object fails. That is, it uses the
Video for Everybody uses no JavaScript so its ideal for those wanting to include as few dependencies as possible in their markup. One drawback of this approach is that it wont work on Android operating systems prior to version 2.3 (Gingerbread). This technique was the basis for the markup described in Part 1 of this series so, in addition to soaking in the material found at the links herein, you can revisit that article for more information.
There are three niceties worthy of mention here. First is the Video For Everybody Generator, which assists you in putting the code together. Second is the fact that this player supports HTML5 audio playback the same way it handles video. Finally, the player site includes a fairly comprehensive description of problems you may face with HTML5 video use, as well as recommended solutions. I hope most of this material was covered in the prior installment of this series, but it wont hurt to look at the VfE Important Notes.
VideoJS is a free, open source HTML5 Video Player that falls back to Flash or the alternate video playback technology of your choice (such as Silverlight or QuickTime). It starts with embed code based on Video for Everybody, which includes basic playback functionality such as autoplay and preload. However, it also uses JavaScript to fix cross-browser inconsistencies, add support for the HTML5 tags in older versions of IE, and add features such as fullscreen display and subtitles. For the dependency-conscious, its use of JavaScript is library-independent, meaning it doesnt require packages such as jQuery or MooTools to operate.
Best of all, it provides a consistent application programming interface (API), and consistent user interface (UI), for JavaScript and Flash playback. The comprehensive API is easy to use and the UI is managed with easily edited HTML and CSS that affects not only JavaScript but also the lightweight Flash-based player provided.
As an open source player, anyone can alter the code and contribute updates to forks on GitHub. The main files are also hosted meaning that no downloads are required, the code is always updated when new features, devices, and platforms are supported, and the files may even already be cached on your visitors systems. And, unlike some hosted solutions, if you prefer to download a copy of the player, say for use without an internet connection (or to eliminate reliance on any server other than your own), you can do that, too.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), which oversees freedom of information and privacy for the federal government, is seeking to migrate to a new website based on the open source Joomla CMS.
Up to $145,000 is on the table for managing the migration from the current Oaic.gov.au flat-file setup created with Adobe Dreamweaver to a database driven site running on Joomla.
Tender documents state that the organisation is seeking migration to Joomla 2.5, though is open to moving to 1.7.5.
Privacy.gov.au, the website of the defunct Office of the Privacy Commissioner, which was integrated into the OAIC in late 2010, is currently published using Joomla 1.5.20.
The office envisages a setup closer to Privacy.gov.au than the current main OAIC site, but "must also incorporate the new functions/services that the OAIC was created to deliver", tender documents state.
The OAIC intends to sign a contract for the migration by the end of June, with tenders closing in mid-April.
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