Joomla Powers the Web in Chicago and Beyond: August 10 - 11, 2012 2 full days of Joomla Content Management System fun and excitement. This event is the LARGEST  Joomla Day conference in the United States. Connect with Entrepreneurs, Business Leaders, Industry Experts, and Visionaries to Learn New Sales, Growth, and Marketing Techniques.

The Problem: Testing software has been a huge challenge as long as software has been around. A big part of this is the simple mathematics of if / then statements.

It seems the Joomla community has embraced Twitter as a social hub for communication and content distribution, making Twiter the most active social network for Joomla users. With so much activity about Joomla on twitter, how can you effectively grow your Twitter following? In this article we will be examining six creative ways to boost your Twitter followers.

Volunteering to help with Joomla! is fun! Check here for listings of current volunteer openings throughout the Joomla! project that have been posted in the "Help wanted in the community” forum.

Since March 2007, over 30 million copies of the Joomla software have been downloaded according to Joomla.org. Joomla is the world's most popular full-featured Content Management System (CMS) and powers approximately 2.7% of the 1,000,000 largest websites in the world. These websites are in a variety of fields, such as education, arts, media, sports, business, science, technology, health, etc.

It is clear that Joomla is becoming more and more popular and reliable. There are many well-known labels or brands which are using this free CMS to build their own website. I'm sure that you know at least some of Joomla showcases. Thus, in this article, I will introduce you to a mini showcase of 10 of the most popular websites using Joomla.

Joomla! We have a problem! It is accepted that the documentation of Joomla! could be improved. We need not dwell on the shortcomings. We would prefer to write about our plan for a new approach and, as we describe the benefits, lightly touch on those difficulties which the proposal addresses. 

In the July 2012 Happy Birthday issue of the JCM, it's up, up and away with another month of Joomla! leadership updates!

As web developers our projects are complex and Project Management Systems (PMS) are essential to our success. A great PMS has many benefits but if you're using one that is under powered or isn't a good fit you can really be hindering your team's productivity and workflow. Modern PMS' offer more complete business solutions bundling CRM, invoicing, time tracking and more. Below we will explore some of today's best PMS' so you can determine which would be the best fit for your organization.

Hello everybody, I’m Aaron Schmitz – an open source software developer and senior in the mechanical engineering program at the University of Minnesota. I’ve been using open source software for as long as I can remember, and this summer my project for Google Summer of Code is to create a JGoogle Package that will allow easy interaction with the Google APIs from within the Joomla Platform.

Level of Difficulty:Advanced I am Florian Voutzinos, a 22 year old Frenchman living in Toulouse. I've studied engineering in Aeronautics during three years, now student in fundamental Physics, I would like to join a school or University of Informatics. The Google Summer of Code project I am working on is the Workflow engine for the Joomla core.

A Workflow is a sequence of steps that can be for example, performed by a user, and formally represented as a Petri Net or an oriented graph.

Let’s start with a simple example of an e-commerce software checkout workflow:

Level of Difficulty:Beginner  Hi, my name is Javier Gómez and I've been elected to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2012 program.

The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) helps support students who get the opportunity to work with mentors on a variety of coding projects that will all be contributed back to the student's mentoring organization, in my case the Joomla! Project.

This year's Joomla! GSoC application was led by Chad Windnagle (Primary Administrator), Andrea Tarr (Secondary Administrator), and Elin Waring. Key supporters and contributors to the application process include Michael Babker, Robert Deutz, Andrew Eddie, Louis Landry, Jacques Rentzke, and Matt Thomas.

This summer I will be creating a Language Installer Tool for Joomla! CMS. The mentors of the project are Jeremy Wilken, Jean-Marie Simonet, Marijke Stuivenberg. And the documentation for all the project is avaliable at http://languageinstaller.blogspot.com.es/

Please check the following video to see the presentation of the project:

"Open Innovation is a phenomenon that has become increasingly important for both practice and theory over the last few years. The reasons are to be found in shorter innovation cycles, industrial research and development’s escalating costs as well as in the dearth of resources."

As web developers we have all dealt with the decision of how to best provide website hosting for our clients. It can be a great source of passive income if you make the right decisions or it can be your worst nightmare losing you precious time and coveted client relationships. In this article we will analyze the different hosting methodologies and what to look out for to make sure a hosting company is the right fit for your business.

It is great to see that Joomla is accepted as a mentoring organization on this year’s Google summer of code. Joomla accepted eight amazing projects this year. I am really excited to work with Joomla this summer and my project is JMediawiki package.

Mediawiki is a free and open source web based wiki software which is popularly know for running wikipeida and all other sites by Wikimedia foundation. It offers a RESTful web service to access and modify the contents hosted in mediawiki. This project intend to build a library to interact with mediawiki based websites.

The goal of this project is to come up with a library for Joomla Platform which will facilitate compressing and combining of JavaScript and CSS files before they are sent to the client browsers.