After staring in awe at Paul Irish’s HTML5 boilerplate, I quickly decided it was genius and wanted to get a starting point for any future Joomla projects where we at XID deem html5 ok to use (which from this point on should be most). I took a few minutes and redid / added some Joomla-esque [...]
I made a casual video this evening on converting a J! 1.5 template to J! 1.6. I hadn’t practiced or rehearsed this video at all before the recording because I wanted to see just how easy it would be and how much time it would take to get it done. Surprisingly, it took just a [...]
The Expo was the best technical conference I have attended to date. I have been to a few smaller, meet-up type conferences, FOWA (Future of Web Apps) Miami, and the CMS Expo ’09. Apart from last year’s CMS Expo (CMSX), the others I did not enjoy. You might think I am bias but I feel, [...]
Recently I was introduced to a new hosted shopping cart solution called ECWID. I played with it for about 10 minutes and really liked the idea behind it. I was also surprised how fast it loaded the hosted cart. I was able to whip out several extensions for Joomla that help integrate the cart…
A recent conversation with some developers brought up a question I’d never contemplated before: Can jQuery core methods be overridden? Well, in short: Easily, yes! From perusing the web, it looks like there are several approaches to doing this. Below is an example I wrote up quickly, to test out the concept.
I read a blog post yesterday that is a prime example of misunderstanding what Joomla is as a whole. The website in question tried to up sell their proprietary real estate management system over Joomla. Apart from the article being terribly misleading, the author himself and potentially the developers of the “ONE System Real Estate [...]