Description of Talks at J and Beyond 2011
Complete Description of all the Talks at J and Beyond 2011

Contents

Extension Show Case based on Nooku...4 Changing the paradigm and making search meaningful..5 Cloud Management....6 Case Study - Improving Food grain warehouse management..7 REST API.....8 High Performance Joomla! websites....9 Better content management with K2 - the present and future.10 Easy Steps for Getting Involved in the Joomla Project's Development.12 Using Joomla to Save the World....13 CRM Integration Models...14 The State of OSM Address...15 Joomla leadership lessons learned....16 You only like me for my body...17 Earning respect and money with Joomla...18 Take control of Joomla 1.6 with Seblod 2.0...19 Build your Custom Community with SEBLOD 2.0 on Joomla 1.6..20 The Joomla! Community Magazine: If you want to build a ship..21 Caching workshop....22 Kunena Forum 2.0 - Communication Platform..23 Yeah, congurable ACL in Joomla 1.6! Or.?..24 jZenGarden, Molajo, and All Together, As A Whole...25 What is Molajo?....26 Cutting corners from a wheel - Introducing Molajo ACL..28 JavaScript MVC Architecture for Web Apps...29 How to Triforce (Working in 3 Places at Once)..30 Awesome Powers - Site population and content distribution..31
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"Hola mundo", or why should your Joomla extension/business 'speak' Spanish..32 Nooku Development Workshop....33 The Nooku Platform - From Vision to Code...34 Joomla - Project, Product or Both?...35 How to Build Native Web Apps with HTML5 & CSS3..36 Belgium Police - Building a Multi-site Platform with Joomla..37 Beez Features HTML5 and Wai Aria....38 "Multipurpose form component - The Form "library" swiss knife of Joomla"..39 Next Generation Webshop - Killing the ERP system and moving the platform to a Joomla webshop....40 The association system Choo built on Nooku...41 User interface: Ergonomics for web applications...42 Taking SEO seriously within a next generation Joomla Webshop component.42 Joomla Frameworks Kung Fu...44 Architecture of the Social Web: Nodes, Graphs and Stories...45 Developing for Community Builder....46 Community Builder Solutions and Development..47 A look at Community Builder 2.0...48 Building the next generation Event Management Platform (story of a swiss startup).49 Integrating Joomla with other web applications using Nooku Framework and OAuth.50 Building web applications with Joomla!...51 Ajax Madness and Joomla!....52 Case Study: Joomla in a non-prot missions organisation..53 Joomla rule engines and the joy of Meta...54 A love triangle: Joomla!, Google Maps and monetisation..55 Launch it right or prepare for a ght...56 Joomla admin for (dummies) your clients - the way it should be..57 Pimp your Joomla SEO...58 SEO Myths Busted....59 Monitoring solution : How to keep an eye on more than 50 websites ?..60 Take the CMS to the user via Email with J!MailAlerts. The Email Digest system for Joomla....61 Joomla - The inferior product? A critical developer review..62
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Molajo brings real SEO URLs to Joomla...63 Joomla Ecommerce done better....64 SEO? Why bother if your site is dead slow?...65 Next-level e-commerce with MageBridge..66 Exploring SobiPro....67 OSOR.eu An Open Source platform for Europe..68 Microsoft and the Joomla! community..69 IE6 R.I.P send owers!....70 Cloud on the Radar? What is it? Should you care?..71 Impact of Joomla on Developing Economies (Nigeria: A case study)..72 What's beyond Joomla!?...73 Establishing Highly Successful User Groups...75 Involving Women in Open Source and in Joomla..76 Tienda Development Workshop....77 Getting Involved in the Joomla Community: Where, How & Why..78 Choosing the *Right* Joomla Extensions...79 Building Joomla 1.6 Templates...80 Continuous Integration....81 Future of JandBeyond....82 Joomla! 1.6 support multiple databases...83 The Virtuemart 2 Workshop....85 The Virtuemart 2 Presentation...86 Advanced site transfers with Akeeba Backup..87 Joomla! Security 101...88 Joomla! 2.0 Architecture...90

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High Performance Joomla! websites
Friday, 11 March 2011 17:35 Written by Fotis Evangelou
Please note. This presentation is not for the faint hearted. Although primarily targeted for expert website developers, newbies to Joomla! development can still benet from the "best practices" presented in this session. Performance is a very crucial factor in modern website/web application development. Joomla! is an amazing platform to develop world class websites and applications, but the "ground is still very wet" on what's possible and at what cost. In this 45 min presentation, we will show you what to keep in mind when preparing to deploy a Joomla! website or application to potentially millions of visitors/users per month. We will show you the tools, the technlogies used and the web services to leverage for that goal. We'll even show you what you can do with Joomla! to make it perform a lot better. And best of all? We will provide you with the knowledge to feel condent when design you next big project, from the people that have deployed high traffic Joomla! websites like Gazzetta.gr, TNAWrestling.com, OnSports.gr, Queen.gr and a lot more. Topics covered in this presentation:
Optimal hosting platform for Joomla! with the lowest possible cost cPanel for performance hosting? Hell yeah! Hosting management doesn't have to be a PITA! Content delivery networks and how to deal with personalized content in Joomla! Joomla! website tweaks and extensions to use Tools for debugging, testing, checking
Don't forget to bring notepads :) All tools used will be provided as a digital download after the presentation.
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Better content management with K2 - the present and future
Friday, 11 March 2011 16:25 Written by Fotis Evangelou K2 is the popular powerful content component for Joomla! with CCK-like features developed by JoomlaWorks, and the rst component in the Joomla! community to have won the "Joomla! component of the year" award at J and Beyond 2010, the international Joomla! conference (http://bit.ly/k2atJOSCARs). So why all the fuss with K2? K2 provides an out-of-the box integrated solution featuring rich content forms for items (think of Joomla! articles with additional elds for article images, videos, image galleries and attachments), nested-level categories, tags, comments, a system to extend the item base form with additional elds (similar to CCK for those acquainted with Drupal), a powerful plugin API to extend item, category and user forms, ACL, frontend editing, sub-templates and a lot more! The opportunities that K2 presents for Joomla! are pretty incredible and given how easy the component is to use, it has opened the door to far more usage possibilities than were previously available for Joomla! itself. Using K2, you can transform your Joomla! website to a news/magazine site with author blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/document manager, directory listing, event listing and more, all this bundled under one package and without any programming knowledge. This year we will also take a different approach on re-introducing K2 to the Joomla! community, in a presentation suitable for both newcomers to K2 as well as experienced K2 users/developers. In just 45 mins, we will show you:

Cutting corners from a wheel - Introducing Molajo ACL
Friday, 04 March 2011 01:37 Written by Klas Berli Joomla 1.6. doesn't have a ACL. It has 2 ACL's. One for the views and another one for all other actions. It has user groups and it has groups of groups, called access levels. Or sometimes view levels. or sometimes just access. One acl has inheritance, the other does not. Want to give each of the 500 students ability to see his own papers (but only his)? Well.create 500 view levels. And so on. From multiple conceptual/logical aws and bad user interface, all the way to the coding. 17 get user groups queries all doing exactly the same thing. We just needed to do something about it. Introducing Molajo ACL
Unied ACL: view where it belongs - with other actions. 50% less ACL user has to deal with. User interface redone. One click to permission changes. Changed permissions inheritance logic: more detailed level always wins. Allow or deny on parent - doesn't matter. Explicitly assigned permission for the president. A lot more usable. Will show you why. Properly coded: KISS and DRY. No duplicate code. And much more
After the introduction to changes, Molajo team will present real life usage cases with direct Joomla to Molajo ACL comparisons that will demonstrate why the above changes were needed.
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JavaScript MVC Architecture for Web Apps
Friday, 04 March 2011 00:30 Written by Stian Didriksen MVC was invented to solve the problem on how to best organize your code so it is easier to maintain. There is less code and it keeps your code DRY. Nooku Framework is automatically doing the MVC implementation for you, even solving it on an architecture level. Nooku Framework has not implemented MVC on the client side in JavaScript yet, leaving you much on your own with how you organize the JS part of your application. In this talk, Stian will demonstrate, in very simple terms, how you can implement MVC in JavaScript in a way that benets from the server side conventions and design patterns. What value do you get when you do that? You save code, lots and lots of it. Less code means more time, and time is what you need to enjoy life.

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How to Triforce (Working in 3 Places at Once)
Friday, 04 March 2011 00:23 Written by Stian Didriksen Stian Didriksen reveals how you can triforce; juggle 3 jobs on a daily long term basis. There are many secrets behind how you can stay sane doing this every day, and Stian will let you in on those secrets. Valuable insights on what actually works eliminates the need for trial and error. The 3 things he does the most are:
Ninjaboard, a Nooku Framework based forum component by NinjaForge. Morph Template framework by JoomlaJunkie (soon to be ProThemer), which is being ported to Nooku Framework. Make JavaScript magic happen at Timble on Nooku projects.
If you want the legendary power of the triforce, then you cannot afford to miss this talk.
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Awesome Powers - Site population and content distribution
Thursday, 03 March 2011 22:49 Written by Alexis Sotir A common misconception amongst people new to running their own website is that the actual development and building of the site is more time consuming than the population and actual maintenance. Populating your site can become a daunting and repetitive task, when underestimated can often cause missed deadlines or sleepless nights. Once you have your contents online, the fun starts with trying to gain a fellowship and distribute those contents to those interested. You want to keep them coming back. There are many ways to do this, RSS, twitter, facebook, etc but we will focus on probably the most complex and regulated way: Newsletters. We have created a couple of extensions during our pursuit of saving the maximum amount of time when performing routine tasks within Joomla!, which we will introduce to you. Our presentation will cover three major points: Site population (Free solutions for speedy population) Content distribution (MailChimp Integration for Joomla!) Timesavers (Increase you prot margins as a Joomla! Sitebuilder/Dev) Witness how you can populate your site and send a newsletter with your freshly created contents in minutes. But because this showcase would make for a rather short presentation, we will go in depth and explore several different scenarios for which the Content Uploader and MailChimp Integration for Joomla! save you tremendous amounts of time. You don't want to miss this session, if you're a web agency or running your own site as an individual. Learn how to upload dozens of articles into your Joomla! site with a click of a button and schedule their release. Explore the advantages of integrating Open Source platforms with enterpriselevel newsletter systems such as MailChimp. Introduction to a few more third party extensions and services that save you time and money when building and running your Joomla! website.

Nooku Framework drastically reduces the amount of code you need to write Joomla extensions. It helps you to create powerful components very quickly. The intuitive API, design pattern based architecture, and out-of-the-box security, give you time to focus on features. Find out about this very powerful web app platform and learn how you can start using it today to build your web apps in this presentation by Nooku Lead Developer and Project Manager, Johan Janssens.

Who is the session for?

Developers and integrators andproject managers interested in taking Joomla to a next level, moving from websites to web applications, from browsers to apps.
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Joomla - Project, Product or Both?
Thursday, 03 March 2011 18:27 Written by Johan Janssens A lot has been said about Joomla since the day it was born. The story goes back years, spans continents, and includes a cast of thousands. It is a fantastic story, with all of your standard themes greed, rage, turmoil, love lost. Its a story of dedicated people laboring to create something they truly believe in. The Joomla success represents the sum total of the energy expended by thousands of people around the world for almost a decade. But what is Joomla actually? Is it a project, or a product, or both? And more importantly, should Joomla be focusing on trying to be more a project or a product? In this session I will try to answer both questions. I will try to dene Joomla The Project and Joomla The Product. Based on that denition I will outline key differences in specic areas and try to draw some initial conclusions based on 5 years Joomla history.Finally trying to answer the question :
should Joomla try to be a project or a product ?
Who is the session for? Everyone in the Joomla community and beyond that isn't afraid to ask hard questions and doesn't want to look for easy answers. If you want to learn to better understand Joomla's history and help shape it's potential future don't miss this talk.
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How to Build Native Web Apps with HTML5 & CSS3
Thursday, 03 March 2011 18:27 Written by Tom Janssens We are moving towards a new era dominated by Web Apps instead of web sites. Web applications are moving out of the browser and onto the desktop. On top of that, tablets and other mobile devices are changing our world and the way we build web applications. Today, web developers are able to create web applications and make them available as a native desktop application requiring nothing more than existing web skills like Javascript, HTML, CSS and PHP. Traditionally, HTML & CSS have been quite nice for laying out documents but not so great for laying out user interfaces. CSS3 includes a new module called the 'Flexible Box Model' (aka Flexbox), which makes laying out user interfaces a far easier process. In this talk Tom Janssens & Stian Didriksen will show you how the best of the web meets the best of the desktop. How to access the latest capabilities in HTML5 and CSS3, without cross-browser issues, allowing you to build a killer user interface for your applications. Find out how to bring the Joomla backend to the desktop and learn how you can start building your own native web apps today.

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Belgium Police - Building a Multi-site Platform with Joomla
Thursday, 03 March 2011 18:11 Written by Tom Janssens Belgium, being the small country that it is, counts no less than 190 police zones. Each of those 190 police zones had its own website running different (proprietary) systems. After the release of Joomla 1.5 in 2008 most zones took the plunge and migrated their sites to Joomla 1.5. At the moment 120 zones are using Joomla. Until recently, all of those installations were hosted separately on one dedicated server. To increase the usability, ease of maintenance and continued growth, the Belgian Police asked us to help them build a multi-site platform. And of course we said yes! This creates some challenging problems: How to maintain these sites? How to create consistency, yet allow for the required exibility for each autonomous zone? How do you train and support your users? During this case study, you will get a unique insight into the project, the challenges we encountered, and solutions we implemented.
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Beez Features HTML5 and Wai Aria
Thursday, 03 March 2011 12:17 Written by Angie Radtke A short introduction into HTML5 and Wai Aria (more details to come)
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"Multipurpose form component - The Form "library" swiss knife of Joomla"
Thursday, 03 March 2011 02:09 Written by Michael Madsen A case study on how we utilize redFORM with multiple other components and how you can use redFORM in your component. Forms are used on almost every website in the world. The standard elds under contact is almost inevitable. What started as a simple form component is today more a form library, where you can implement it in other components, using its forms for their purpose. With this component you don't need to create input elds from scratch like in the old days using html tags.redFORM allows you to create all the forms and elds you like, and integrate them to regular Joomla articles. Create simple or advanced forms for signups, ordering etc. We will demonstrate how to:
Create different types of input elds Integrate redFORM in other components. Look at examples where redFORM is used in live sites in different components.
In this session there will be some demonstration, talks about possibilities with this component and a dive into the code.
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Next Generation Webshop - Killing the ERP system and moving the platform to a Joomla webshop.
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 23:27 Written by Nikolaj Grundtvig Or the case study on How we saved the client 20.000 euros per year in running costs while moving almost all of the company management and processes into a Joomla based webshop with redSHOP. In this case study we will be looking closer into a customer solution developed by redWEB.dk utilizing the components from redCOMPONENT.com to park the clients old accounting system, ERP system, biz talkin business platform integrated solution and moving it all to Joomla + redSHOP + redCRM (not currently publicly released) with a live integration to e-conomic.com as a slave accounting system for the accounting company for verication of system data and numbers. In other words this is how to make a fully business intelligence optimized solution with full company process integration and implementation of the companys needs and workows into the Joomla redSHOP powered solution. In this presentation we will be going through some of the preliminary requests from the client and how we planned ahead with the development of a new component for an upper control center for redSHOP with the purpose of allowing for individualized analytics, reporting, stock room ows, packaging ows, printing of packaging notes, debtor handling, delivery statistics, cost price calculations etc. or in other words a fully blown solution that is actually able to take over from the companys existing accounting and ERP systems by showing the solution hands on throughout the presentation. The presentation will be led by Nikolaj Emil Grundtvig who is the lead project leader of redCRM and also one of the main wireframe- and interface designers of redCOMPONENT.com and Ronni K. G. Christiansen who is the manager and lead visionary of redCOMPONENT.com as well as the main architect behind redSHOP.

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The association system Choo built on Nooku
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 23:24 Written by Emilie Lindqvist Who is the session for? All developers, designers and project managers interested in how to create a multifunctional application in Joomla and Nooku. Main subject: We have built a complex and unique Joomla! application for over 30.000 members and want to share our knowledge. Watch the rst public demo of Choo here at JAB2011 Already On and MindK have built a system for managing members, divisions, reports, newsletters, SMS-communications, course registrations and much more. This project is developed for the Norwegian Choir Association that has members in choirs.
In this session development leader Oleg Nesterov and designer Emilie Lindqvist will present the process.
It all begins with the users, Emilie
Emilie will describe the study of the end users tasks and routines in the system. When knowing how the users were working we created the user interface with ribbons, listing views and predictive searching.
. and it ends with the code, Oleg
Oleg will continue with explaining the development of the applications in Nooku. He will show the approach his team had to develop the system not a single Joomla component which handles lists with complex ltering and robust form validation, and a framework they developed for member systems on top of Joomla and Nooku. Oleg will give his suggestions to developers who are building or going to build large projects with Joomla. At the end of the session, the rst public demo of the system will take place!
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User interface: Ergonomics for web applications
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 23:08 Written by Emilie Lindqvist How do you create a user-friendly interface and how do you make users understand where to click as fast as lightning? Dont make me think! User interface is the interaction between a human and a machine. We all know that most of the It doesnt work! comes because the user dont know how it works or they think they know how it works, but do it the wrong way. This is a result of crappy user interfaces. Steve Krug wrote the book Dont make me think about user interface. In this session we will study Krug and other known authors ideas of top notch user interface. We will give you real examples from our projects and discuss typical users and how to make them do what we want them to. Apple got it right with iPhone, Google with android. How can you create application built on their knowledge? Some of the benets of a good user interface:

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Fewer support issues Better marketing values Happy customers Be a part of making the web a better and more friendly place

Already On is a company based in Norway that works with developing web applications in Joomla. Our goal is to be innovative and user specic, and thereby create the best applications and sites on the market. Who is the session for? Designers and other interesting in building user friendly applications in Joomla!
Taking SEO seriously within a next generation Joomla Webshop component.
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 22:51 Written by Ronni K. G. Christiansen
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Or the - how we decided to utilize a 3rd party component and fully build SEO support into our 3rd generation ecommerce component redSHOP to make it easy and available for all to work with. Today you will see more than 100.000 webshops based on Joomla Quite a lot of these, not to say by far the most, do not utilize the options or possibilities given for running a search engine optimized Joomla based webshop.The competition however, between webshops, on the net has never been stronger and in more and more markets, especially on the global market, you will have to take SEO seriously to become a contender on attracting the masses to your online store. However you can spend ages optimizing your webshop for the search engines and as such it very quickly becomes a matter of utilizing the right strategy, identifying the lowest hanging fruits and not least to use the right tools for the job. In this presentation Ronni will do a basic presentation on the strategic SEO of your website / webshop to lay the foundation while focusing on concrete examples on how we decided to do all of our SEO features in redSHOP based on optimal results utilizing SH404sef as the undelaying engine and with the goal of allowing to optimize the automatically generated SEO affecting parameters while allowing for individual user overrides and custom rule sets created or optimized by the developer, frontender or webshop owner themselves. In the end of this presentation there will be rich chance to ask questions about Joomla SEO and SEO in a webshop setting.This presentation / talk will go from the basic coverage of a full image of what SEO is and how to work with it into the debt of the concretely applied rule sets on an example redSHOPJoomla Webshop and how we manipulate the SEO settings of redSHOP through SH404sef.Notice a larger part of the presentation / talk will also be applicable for users of alternative SEO/SEF componentsor, in part, people utilizing the native Joomla SEF support. Beyond being the main architect of redSHOP, visionary of redWEB.dk & redCOMPONENT.com and a long time practitioner of SEO and technical SEO Ronni also teaches Joomla SEO Strategy at International Business Collage in Denmark four times a year, where the audience typically consist, in larger parts, of attendees from the advertising-, web- and design agencies in Denmark working with Joomla while also leaving room for hobby users and do-ityourselfers through a strong cooperation with International Business Collage who has clearly placed themselves as Denmarks leading course center for Joomla courses and educations. Ronni has worked with SEO in some of the areas and branches with the strongest competition, primarily in Denmark, and has a wide range of

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Developing for Community Builder
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 15:55 Written by Kyle LaRose The Community Builder API framework can be used to extend or add functionality to your CB powered website. Developing beyond the prole get a comprehensive overview of the application framework and see how it can be leveraged by developing CB plugins. Learn about CB triggers, component plugins, and how to use CB API to make your plugins cross Joomla compatible avoiding the hurdles of CMS dependancy. Many CB plugin use cases will be presented and explained. Who should attend? Anyone interested in extending existing CB functionality or developing new applications using the CB API framework.
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Community Builder Solutions and Development
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 15:41 Written by Nick A. The Community Builder environment provides a wide-range of tools that can support many different use case. It can also be extended easily using the powerful API layer.Social networking, membership management, subscriptions based, community websites can be created using CB environment and congured to meet your specic needs.This in-depth feature-packed presentation will describe existing solutions and use case scenarios. Key tools presented will also contain source code discussions from the CB developers. Learn about all the great features that exist in Community Builder and see what CB Add-ons are available and how they were developed. See how these can be used and combined to power specic scenarios. The CB framework and the existing tools provide the basic building blocks learn whats available and see how the environment can be used to support diversely different use case scenarios. Who should attend? Administrators, Integrators and developers that wish to leverage the power and exibility of existing Community Builder tools to fulll their needs. Anyone interested in learning about Community Builder components and building blocks. Presenters:

Nick A. Kyle L.

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A look at Community Builder 2.0
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 15:29 Written by Beat B. Community Builder (CB) is one of the most popular Joomla extensions around and has been powering millions of Joomla based social websites since before the birth of Joomla. After many years of internal research and development, the CB Team at Joomlapolis will be exclusively presenting Community Builder 2.0 for the rst time at J and Beyond 2011. Learn about the powerful API and framework that is under the CB 2.0 hood and see how its functionality can transform any Joomla based CMS installation into a powerful social networking solution that can be tailored to support many different use cases and social environments. Who should attend: Anyone that has ever used CB, as an administrator or developer, will benet from this presentation. The presentation is also of interest for persons that didn't use CB yet and want to give a next-generation social look and feel to their joomla website. This is the rst of a series of three talks from the leading social networking joomla extension maker, Joomlapolis, gold sponsor of J and Beyond.

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Building the next generation Event Management Platform (story of a swiss startup)
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 13:30 Written by Romano Sensibile
How the project of an event management platform comes to life and takes shape out of the hands and souls of a swiss startup company. A look into the event's market, discovering what are the needs and problems to solve of the events organizers world. Building the right solution for them, considering the problematics that a small start up has to face: economical, practical and technical aspects analysis for setting up a road map to achieve such goals. Status ,development and future milestones of the project.
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Integrating Joomla with other web applications using Nooku Framework and OAuth
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 12:53 Written by Flavio Copes A Joomla website can be integrated with a lot of services found on the internet: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and so on. Something that's making all this very simple is OAuth, a standard that lets people login with the service in a very simple and safe way, without having you to take the responsibility to store their usernames and passwords. This workshop describes from zero how to talk to the Foursquare APIs using Nooku Framework and an OAuth open source component published on GitHub (https://github.com/beyounic/com_oauth) Audience: technical folks, developers
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Building web applications with Joomla!
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 12:43 Written by Nick Balestra Building web applications is a completely different story than building websites. How does Joomla! t in a world where sites and web apps tend to merge and fuse?What can joomla offer us as a web platform and what not? How to solve this problem? This presentation os for everybody involved or thinking about building a web application using Joomla.
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Ajax Madness and Joomla!

Monday, 28 February 2011 15:59 Written by Azrul Rahim Some appropriate form of ajax interaction are pretty much expected in most modern web application. In Joomla! however, there is no standardized way of calling an ajax method. Almost all developers have their own ideas how it should be done, often causing all sorts of conicts. I would like to look into these various ajax methods employed by various components and analyse them. I would also like to start a discussion on these various methods and have developers share their experience deploying ajax in their application. Perhaps at the end of the session, we would have better understanding how Joomla! developer community can move forward when it comes to handling ajax calls.

embedding Joomla sites in Facebook applications, dynamically switching template according to context branding sites for affiliates using GeoIP and location-aware templates and banners dynamically changing menu structures depending on context (user information, location, URL/referrer) templating and module-ing VirtueMart according to complex criteria such as sub-page within the component, entry URL (e.g. affiliate links), shopper group and and cart contents notifying Google Analytics of certain variables and actions on the site in order to have a better understanding of site usage patterns
All of this is done without hacking any core Joomla les or modifying 3rd-party extensions. In the second part of the session I would like to open the oor for discussion on how to move forward with Rule Chains in Joomla. Drupal has good support for rule chains, but we should be able to do even better in Joomla!
What are the minimum requirements for a rule chain engine for Joomla? How best to encourage developers to provide dynamic information (for use in business logic) and actions that can be triggered in their extension, for use in a rule chain engine?
I may be in a position to demonstrate a new software project that combines the best bits of MetaTemplate and MetaMod and an API for micro-integrations. stay tuned! Greetings from a shaky New Zealand I look forward to meeting you all in Kerkrade!
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A love triangle: Joomla!, Google Maps and monetisation
Friday, 25 February 2011 19:44 Written by Jack Bremer As a busy London agency, we've always found it fascinating to talk with other web developers about how they solved particular problems, acheived certain aims and launched winning websites. Since J and Beyond 2010 we've been involved in some fantastic projects (all involving Joomla! of course!) and we'll be presenting some of these during our presentation. Firstly, the geotagging tool which we showed at JAB10, and was aimed purely at K2 has been expanded to cover any type of content, from any Joomla! component - if it's in your Joomla site you can now geocode its location, display it within an interactive map and provide your audience with a new way to browse content. We've learnt lessons from some of the best content display sites out there, liaised with clients on requirements, designed it with aesthetics and usability in mind, and launched it recently for you to see at fespa.com/map - we'll soon be releasing the component into the community via the JED. We've also been getting into the game that many describe as the perfect way to ruin a good walk - golf - not in the playing sense though. We helped relaunch a golf brand, Leaderboard Golf, which was previously purely the owner of 5 top golf resorts in the south of England. This continues, and their golf centres enjoy increased exposure and new memberships as a result, but what's exciting here is the entirely new business model presented to them. Leaderboard are now media owners and publishers, with a team of copywriters, SEOs, social media footsoldiers, designers and developers - the revenue streams are agile, numerous and potentially very lucrative. We're establishing them as "the authority for golf online" and have employed state-of-the-art third-party tools to automate certain parts of the site, achieving huge search ranking jumps in a very short period of time - thanks to the hard work of the teams involved and the powers of Joomla and K2. We'll bring the designs, code, success stories and stats to J and Beyond 2011 you just bring your eyes, ears and any questions. We look forward to seeing you there and hope that what we've learned will help you in your future projects. Speakers: Jack & Alex Bremer

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SEO Myths Busted

Friday, 25 February 2011 16:56 Written by Theo van der Zee Almost daily I hear and read about people talking on the (Joomla!) forums that are saying how important they think high rankings in the search engines are. However, the strategy they use for their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is mostly based on guessing, outdated knowledge, advice from 'gurus' and random results in the past. In this presentation a series of popular myths will be discussed and busted. Armed with this knowledge you'll be able to gain high rankings easier and more targeted!
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Monitoring solution : How to keep an eye on more than 50 websites ?
Friday, 25 February 2011 16:06 Written by Pierre-Andr Vullioud Pierre-Andr Vullioud will lead a session focusing on the development of an efficient monitoring strategy. There will be a real example based on JMonitoring. JMonitoring helps you to keep an eye on every Joomla websites you manage: it detects errors and automatically lets you know if they have been hacked. The monitoring system is based on webservices XML-RPC. A master component checks every X hours all the slave websites
The second part of the talk is dedicated to the future version of Jmonitoring planned for Summer 2011. JMonitoring will :
use Joomla 1.6 native but keeps the monitoring ability for J1.0, J1.5 move from a component to a monitoring framework allow third party monitoring plugins (virtuemart, CB, mail server.) allow third party alert plugins (mail, sms, webservice)
If you care about the security of your websites and if you look for tips about monitoring strategy this session is for you.
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Take the CMS to the user via Email with J!MailAlerts. The Email Digest system for Joomla
Friday, 25 February 2011 09:31 Written by Parth Lawate Tired of the low return rate of your Joomla Users ? Worried on how to get users to keep coming back ? The answer to all your worries is here with J!MailAlerts The free periodic Email Digest system for Joomla. J!MailAlerts allows you too setup daily/weekly/Monthly email alerts for your Joomla users with any content from your Joomla CMS. Whats more users can chose exactly what alerts they want, what content they want in each alert & more via an easy to use dashboard. The system already has over 20 plugins for various components & they are increasing everyday. All you need to do is setup the system & forget about it. Users will manage what content they want & how frequently they want it themselves ! J!MailAlerts is. in effect an Email CMS with a huge amount of control with the end user. We hope to take you through a detailed presentation of this system & present a few case studies of sites where JMA has helped admins & end users in a great way. This talk will show you how you can keep those users coming back for more !

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Future of JandBeyond

Wednesday, 26 January 2011 10:08 Written by Robert Deutz In my welcome presentation at JAB10 in Wiesbaden I explained the history and the long way we walked to make JAB happen. Now we are doing it again and I would like to discuss the future of this event in a round table discussion. Some question to talk about:
Should we move the event to other continents? Is the focus on developers/site builders/administrators good? What can we do to make the event better?.
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Joomla! 1.6 support multiple databases
Tuesday, 25 January 2011 19:19 Written by Sudhi Seshachala Joomla! Is one of the most powerful CMS that runs on any OS but only supports MySQL database. We have ported Joomla to support SQLServer 2008, SQLAzure and Oracle. Enterprise companies do not have to be hesitant any more to adopt Joomla just because it does not support database of their choice. The concern is valid since along with Joomla, comes the additional overhead of buying licensing/support and maintenance for MySQL database, the default database supported by Joomla and many other open source CMS. The session tries to showcase the versatility and exibility of Joomla Framework - specically Database framework. The paper would cover
Technical details Business advantages of a portable Joomla! What portable Joomla means to OS Community at large, extension developers, businesses and solution providers? Need for Joomla to be portable! Business Advantages & Community dis-advantages of Joomla! Supporting commercial databases. Distributions the Linux way Branch Flexible and extensible Joomla framework and database framework supporting Joomla on multiple databases including SQLAzure, SQLServer and Oracle. Recommendation/best practices to support multiple databases. CMS on SQLServer/SQLAzure and Windows Azure- - Demo Techno/business professionals Functional experts Folks who want to leverage more from existing DB resources and skills within IT organization.

Agenda

Session is targeted towards
Prerequisite: 1. Existence of Joomla! And it only supports MySQL database on any operating systems. 2. Limitations of systems not being portable.
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Making Joomla's Admin Interface Awesome
Friday, 21 January 2011 23:27 Written by Kyle Ledbetter I'd love to discuss the current state of Joomla's administrator site, where we've been and where we're going. The Joomla administrator template industry is ourishing, and Joomla 1.6 opens many new doors and possibilities. Devs like myself, Anthony Olsen and Marco Barbosa are pushing innovations and working hard to push some of these innovations back to the core to bring Joomla's UI and UX up to modern standards.

Joomla! CCK's

Who is this guy?
Author Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development (Wrox 2009)
What is he talking about?
What is a CCK? Why do we need it? Joomla! CCK's Popular CCK's

Flexicontent K2 Zoo

What is a CCK?

Content Construction Kit

Extendable/configurable content management Custom article/item types Custom fields Granular (per category/per type) template control

Why do we need it?

com_content is terrible (ok, it's not that bad, but it's limited) Easier management of custom content types Easier customization for front-end presentation More flexibility Etc, etc, etc.

Joomla CCK's

Flexicontent K2 Zoo jSeblod Mosets Tree
Pages & Items Form2Content Resources Catalog SOBI2

Popular CCK's

Flexicontent Features
Nested categories Multi mapping Tags Version control Content types Custom fields

K2 Features

Nested categories Extra fields Tags Comments Images and galleries Attachments Videos Plugin API

Zoo Features

App and template engines Nested categories Multi mapping Custom types Custom elements Comments Tags

Questions?

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