Month: March 2006

Where can You download my components?

 I receive a lot of email request asking where all my components can be downloaded, since I have now enough bandwidth on the new server (1000 Gb monthly). I have decide to install the latest Docman and propose them in the download section…they should appear in some hours…by the way I filled the #Joomla Gallery with screenshots of each components...

Just remember that the development effort (CVS, release) will still be hosted on Joomla forge

Give spammers their money back!

 Hello spammers, just to tell You that I NEVER publish a guestbook entry or comment without trying to search first in google if You are not a possible spammer!

Example: someone has posted in my guestbook the following "thanks you for such a nice website" with his homepage and email. I copy the url of that person in google and finds 100 results, the same comments, the same rating 5/5 given to 100 sites…Hello I am not naive -> entry deleted

I wish everyone is doing the same, be really cautious!  A lot of people only want to increase their ranking in Google!

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Status of JoomlaCloud

The code is now working with an advance caching mechanism (a recommended feature since TagCloud can be overkill on big site).

I also wrote:

  • A mambot: joomlacloudbot.php which is activated onContent and scan scan onDemandyour articles, site.
  • A module mod_joomlacloud.php displaying onDemand a site wide tag cloud or only a section, category, item

Dont ask for a release,

  • It will be out when it is ready!
  • I am doing this on my spare night time 😉
  • The principle of tagCloud is quite easy, can be done in 20 lines of php BUT I wrote my component by keeping in mind the word extensibility!

Some words on architecture:

  • Analyser classes are responsible for tokenizing text using different strategies, removing certain words based on dictionary, words length too small…etc
  • Scanner classes are responsible for giving back a subset of data of your site
  • Limiter classes are cutting the collection of tokenized words, for example you only want the tag cloud of the most 100 words, or only the least used words or …
  • Cache classes are storing TagCloud result in Database for efficiency, but using file datastore is also possible, or no cache
  • Engine classes are of 3 Types:
  • SuperCloudEngine is giving some basic functionalities for creating a TagCloud
  • PluginsCloudEngine can customized the way links are created in the cloud
  • LazyCloudEngine is using a PluginsCloudEngine and a … cache for efficiency, creating cloud onDemand and saving them to database

and for a total of 80 files ….

Right now, what is still open:

  • Testing administrator panel, I assume it is 70% correct
  • Testing installer -> only boring, modifying XML by hand
  • Testing module and mambots, maybe some more code to write

Everything is checked daily in CVS

For a planning point of view, I will deliver first #JoomlaCloud since it has never been released in the wild, then finishing migration of OpenComment to #Joomla 1.1 API

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And How they operate

Microsoft Vista: Not ‘People Ready’

Forbes is hosting an opinion which is nothing more than a virulent view of the current state of M$ Vista.

The new version of Microsoft Windows, called Vista, has slipped again. It was originally going to ship in 2003. Then 2005. Then 2006. Now in early 2007. I’m not surprised, having seen a demo of Microsoft’s new programs at an "event" for tech buyers in New York last week
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Worse yet was the grumbling afterward in the press room. Why the hell did they drag us here? we wondered. We’d been promised big news and some earth-shattering announcements by Microsoft flacks who insisted this was something we shouldn’t miss. Instead, we got a demo that was about as compelling as a root canal followed by a 15-minute press conference with Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive who seems incapable of speaking at any level softer than a bellow. Ballmer took a few potshots at IBM (nyse: IBM – news – people ), claiming the computer giant doesn’t innovate anymore.
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Given Microsoft’s delays I can’t believe open-source stuff still hasn’t caught on for desktop computers. It’s amazing, but people will wait months and months for products that are so complicated that no ordinary person can figure out how to use them. read MORE HERE

On other sites, a rumour state that a big part of the Vista code has to be rewritten before shipping, let’s wait for an official position before propagating sch rumours 😉

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Converting your component from Joomla 1.0.8 to Joomla 1.1.X

  I am  currently in the process of  moving all my open source project (7!) in CVS Head to the latest #Joomla API 1.1.X. I’ve tried to summarize in the following table some conversion rules

In #Joomla 1.0.X has to be converted in #Joomla 1.1.X Where
mosMenuBar::startTable(); JMenuBar::startTable(); PHP code
defined(‘_VALID_MOS’) or die(‘Direct Access to this location is not allowed.’); defined( ‘_JEXEC’ ) or die( ‘Restricted access’ ); PHP code
require_once( $mainframe->getPath( ‘toolbar_html’ ) ); require_once( JApplicationHelper::getPath( ‘toolbar_html’ ) ); PHP code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<mosinstall type="component" version="1.0.0">
….		 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<install type="component" version="1.0.0">
….		 Installer XML file
More to come…

Bad news

  • New code wont work in #Joomla 1.0.X or latest
  • New code wont work in Mambo 4.X or latest

Some links which may help also Help You:

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Freedom: GPL wins in court battle

Some people are trying to redefine freedom, and limit our liberty; but  they loose miserably…

A US federal judge has ruled against antitrust claims that the General Public Licence promotes unfair competition, and in doing so has promoted its cause.

On Monday, US Federal Judge John Daniel Tinder, dismissed the Sherman Act antitrust claims brought against the Free Software Foundation.

The claims made by Plaintiff Daniel Wallace included: that the General Public License (GPL) constituted a contract, combination or conspiracy; that it created an unreasonable restraint of trade; and that the FSF conspired with IBM, Red Hat, Novell and other individuals to pool and cross-license their copyrighted intellectual property in a predatory price fixing scheme.

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Read more here