Archive for October, 2007

Joomla! 1.5 components on hold

Posted October 24, 2007 * Comments(1)

In light of this announcement, I’m going to hold off on doing any more development work on 1.5 versions of my Joomla! extensions. I will look at them again after 1.5 is out of Release Candidate.

Daily Message 1.5 breaks in RC3

Posted October 14, 2007 * Comments(2)

The Daily Message Joomla! component tutorial breaks in Release Candidate 3. I’m going to release a fixed copy soon. In the meantime, you should be able to fix it by replacing these lines…

$menu =& JMenu::getInstance();
$item = $menu->getActive();
$params =& $menu->getParams($item->id);

…with these:

global $mainframe;
$params = &$mainframe->getParams();

jQuery presentation

Posted October 12, 2007 * Comments(0)

This past Wednesday, I did a presentation on jQuery at the DCPHP Developers Group. The presentation content (which is written in jQuery) is available here.

Designed by Apple in California

Posted October 8, 2007 * Comments(0)

Joel reflects on some of Apple’s subtle marketing and Microsoft’s lame attempt at copying it.