The GFU Cyrus AG is very successfully running a "creating webpages with JOOMLA" workshop for almost a year now!

As this course is highly frequented GFU is now searching for more ambitioned and experienced trainers to be able to offer more courses and to extend the agenda!

If you are interested and skilled please check out our Jobboard: www.gfu.net/jobs

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Toronto, ON – March 24 – Joomla! User Group Toronto, Toronto’s premier forum for Joomla! users and developers, announced today that it will participate with the Joomla! Project in IT360° Conference and Expo 2008, Canada’s leading information technology event.

With an objective of helping web developers and webmasters to better leverage the Joomla! CMS platform, Joomla! User Group Toronto, or JUG-T as they are often referred to, is mobilizing its membership to help staff Booth 531 at the upcoming conference, to be held April 7-9, 2008, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building.

The Web is more and more going semantics (cf. the recent announcements of Yahoo! and e.g. the Drupal Semantic Web initiative). Yesterday a new technology called Triplify (http://triplify.org) was released, which provides a building block for the “semantification” of Web applications in particular Joomla!. Triplify is a small plugin for Web applications, which reveals the semantic structures encoded in relational databases by making database content available as RDF, JSON or Linked Data.

Triplify is very light weight: It consists just of few files with less than 500 lines of code. For Joomla a configuration for Triplify can be probably be created in less than 2 hours and the configuration can be reused without modifications on all Joomla installations. Triplify would make Joomla! easier mashable and lays the foundation for next generation, semantics based Web searches.

On February 24, March 1 and March 2 2008, we had three Joomla! community party in Taipei (the north of Taiwan), Taichung (the central of Taiwan) and Kaohsiung (the south of Taiwan). More than 150 people came to join our party. Taiwan Joomla team members demonstrated the Joomla! 1.5 new user interface and application framework to the audience. Taiwan Joomla also released the traditional chinese language package (for frontend and backend) at the same time.

More informations can be find at TaiwanJoomla website.

The Art of Joomla (www.theartofjoomla.com ) is a free, online magazine all about Joomla! version 1.5 (and beyond).

Issue 2 covers the continuing saga of converting an old component so that it doesn't have to run in Legacy Mode; it looks at the new built-in Split Menu technique as well as easy Popup images.

I also go over some of the history of Joomla! and include some nostalgic screenshots of all the versions of Mambo (except the latest - I tried hard but it refused run) and Joomla!

The Art of Joomla site also hosts an Artisan's Directory so if you provide a service in any shape or form based on Joomla! please contact me for a listing (yes, it's free too).

The Joomla! Tools Suite Team are pleased to announce the immediate release of the Joomla! Tools Suite -post Assistant : Problem post generation script.

JTS-post is a standalone, single script utility designed to assist end-users to provide accurate and useful configuration and diagnostic information within Joomla! Forum posts. Simply upload the single file to the Joomla! "/" directory and open in a browser. Once loaded, select the level of detail that you wish to provide in the post, optionally enter details of the problem observed, any error messages and corrective actions already taken, select "GENERATE POST" and pre-formated forum post content will be generated ready for you to Copy and Paste into a forum post.

If any of you have a Joomla website or domain to sell, Alledia.com have just opened up a new, free classified ads section to help you.

Their Joomla Marketplace is somewhere you can sell Joomla websites, domains and pretty much anything else thats Joomla-related. 

The ever popular www.joomlatutorials.com has been updated to now include both Joomla 1.0.x as well as the new Joomla 1.5 animated tutorials. As well as the animated tutorials, we also have a number of downloadable pdf manuals that we link to.

Be sure to use and recommend our site to all new Joomla users. It's an invaluable resource that will save you time and headaches, especially as it takes care of all the Joomla basics.

Friday, April 4th and Saturday, April 5th 2008, the annual Dutch Joomladays (Joomladagen) will be organized in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The main theme of this Dutch (but also internationally orientated) conference is "Building Bridges".

Friday is a Business day, and Saturday is a Community day.