It often happens that when you use a template, its structure is often standardized according to the traditional web standard : menu on the left, content on the right. However it can be interesting to know how to change this structure with the menu on the right and the contents on the left, without being an HTML and CSS Guru and especially without turning the template out.

A group of developers of the community have created a very good tutorial about the Joomla's MVC (model, view, controller). The mission of the Model View Controller Component Tutorial Collaboration (MVCCTC) is to create documentation describing how to create components for Joomla! 1.5 using the MVC pattern and other Joomla! 1.5 libraries.The MVCCTC promotes the production of complete and well formed Open Source components for the Joomla! 1.5

This tool could be very useful for every developers and it won't be surprising to see many good 1.5 extensions coming from it! 

You can access to the tutorial here :) 

Two members of the Joomla project were at the Googleplex the 21st Decembre 2006:

• Wilco Jansen, development coordinator and mentor for Joomla in the Google Summer of Code 2006
  
• Louis Landry, core team developer

The presentation is over 30 minutes but well worth watching. The first part concerns the organization and growth of the Joomla project. It was the same presentation given by Johan Janssens at Dutch Joomla Day.

All our team wish you an Happy New Year !

2007 will be a very promosing year for Joomla with the 1.5 but also thanks to a growing and dynamic community!

Concerning NeoJoomla and our first month, some statistics :

Since the 1st December we had 14 000 visitors and more then 1 200 registrations !

• 80% Men and 14% Women
• 65% English speaking and 35% french speaking people

Countries Top 5

1. France
2. Canada
3. Germany
4. Australia
5. USA

It's pretty cool for a beginning! At this occasion, we would like to thanks everybody for your support, because without NeoJoomla is nothing :)

One more time, happy new year!

I have discovered today "SimpleJS" which is a new and really cool JavaScript library that will allow you to create very good and Web 2.0 effects. This small project as mentionned by the author himself, isn't comparable to the big one as Prototype, Mootools or JQuery but it will permit to any developer to create small effects without difficulty. Moreover, it is very light, only 14ko and the official website proposes some examples.

It is compatible with IE7(Beta), Firefox 2.0 et Opera 2.0

The version 0.02.beta is available here : simpleJS002a.zip

Official website : http://simplejs.bleebot.com/

Since a few days, a “revolutionary” tool has been launched in the developers world. No, I'm not speaking of the NeoJoomlaBar ;) but of an extension for firefox which is FireBug 1.0 Beta.

This extension will be very helpful for all web developers, or at least with Firefox users.