Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and his digital playground.

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It's happen before and it's happen again... Another fork of Mambo CMS.

Couple of years ago, there was a split due to some disagreements between the Mambo committee and core developers, and the core developers along with some of the working group members decided to walk out on the Mambo project. A week later they formed their own open source project named Joomla. Joomla is a fork of Mambo as it uses the existing codebase from the Mambo CMS.  read more »

After one year of research, the biggest Latin America university moves to Joomla! 1.5.

229 courses in 40 different places, five thousand teachers and more than 56 thousand students make the USP – Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo University) in Brazil is the number one in Latin America and one of the 100 most important in the world. Since 1997 in the Internet, the university conduct a research on the last year with the visitors of USP Portal (www.usp.br) about changes and new features on this gate with intent to support the desires and requests of national and international users. The result was a set of new websites with a new navigation system, news and events channels, maps, informations to foreigners in four different languages and a new design.

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After releasing Joomla! 1.5 stable we have discovered a high priority security issue. The vulnerability has been discovered in XML-RPC in combination with the blogger API. There is a security problem in this code that makes it possible to alter the articles on your site (including removal). This problems has been fixed currently by members of the development team and the Joomla! bug squad, solution is now available from Subversion. So what do you need to do until we release Joomla! 1.5.1?

Joomla!  read more »

Great news for all you Joomla users out there. The long awaited stable release is finally here for download after almost 2 and a half year in the making. This marks a complete shift away from Mambo and now Joomla can proudly stand up and say 'Joomla/Mambo' is definitely a thing of the past.

A big thanks to the core team and community for 'making it happen'.

Official Announcement: Ladies and Gentlemen...  read more »

Out of a request from a user to allow 1pixelout player to be rendered in Virtuemart product description, I have created a hack. This was only way to load mambots into VM. The great thing about this hack is that it not only allow you to load 1pixelout into description but also any other mambots you have installed.

This hack was created for use with Joomla! 1.0.x & Virtuemart 1.0.12 & 1.0.13a only.

Credits to Greg Perkins.

Installation:

• Backup your files
• Unzip the file and replace your old files in /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/

UPDATE as of 31 Jan 2008

Added Load Mambot for Virtuemart 1.0.14 (For Joomla 1.0.x)

This is a Wordpress template called Dropshadow 1.0 and is a minimalist modern design for blog sites. I really liked it and thought it would be nice to share it with other communities. So i ported it over to work with a8eJoomla (it may also work on Joomla! though i haven't tested it). Many thanks to Brian Gardner the original designer for his permission to allow me to port the theme to another CMS. This template was released last year.

You'll find the installation and setup notes in the zip file.

Enjoy,

--- UPDATE: 16th Jan 2008 ---

I have updated this player which fixed a couple of small minor issues. Also added a CSS class in case you may want to style it. The CSS class is: span.1pixelout {}

Please re-download it. Thanks,

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This is a Flash audio player originally for Wordpress that i ported over for use with Joomla! and a8e.

This is a demo of 1pixelout player. The track being used is by Zoot Woman - The Model. Taken from their LP - Living in a magazine.

Download: 1pixelout player BOT
Released back in May 2007

Works with web browser:

• Firefox 1/2
• IE 6/7
• Safari
• Opera

Requirements:

• Joomla or a8eJoomla
• Flash plugin
• PHP 4/5

Installation:

• Install it as a mambot (plugin)
• Go to mambot manager and activate the 1pixelout player

Upgrade from previous version:

• Uninstall 1pixelout mambot (plugin)
• Then follow the installation steps from above

Usage

• Create a folder called mp3 in /images/stories/ or where ever you like. This folder will be used to store and play your mp3 from. Upload your mp files using FTP program.
• To link to mp3 file type this in your content item (Note, a forward slash at the beginning of the path is not required): {audio}images/stories/mp3/your_mp3_file{/audio}
• It is now possible to stream mp3 hosted from an external server. To do this, just use a full URL to where the mp3 is hosted: {audio}http://domain-name.com/mp3/file_name.mp3{/audio}
• You can also change the colour of your player, see mambot manager's page for 1pixelout player.
• WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT USE BOLD on the {audio} {/audio}

Preventing double click on Flash in IE

If you are experiencing having to click twice to play an mp3 in IE, then install this mambot: bot_gznoclicktoactivate_1_01.zip. It is by Gerozahn.de

Be sure to place gzNoClickToActivate at the lower end of the mambot list as it has to modify any applet/object embeddings, both hand-coded or script-generated.

JCE Editor plugin for 1pixelout player

If you are using JCE Editor, you might want to include a button to your editor to add 1pixelout player (download it here or get it from below. Credits and thanks to filmanleitungen.de for creating this JCE plugin.

This JCE plugin was developed for JCE Editor 1.1.x

Installation:

• Download the file jce.v1.1.0.plugin.1pixelaudioplayer.zip
• This plugin requires JCE Editor component and mambot
• See 'JCE Plugin Installer' for help on installing a JCE plugin

I recieved an email from a user requesting for a Wordpress RSS Footer plugin by Joost De Valk to be ported to Joomla!

After having installed it on Wordpress to see what it was, it seems to be just a simple insert of a line of text that appears on each feed's description. So it didn't seem to be of any significant to port the plugin. Also, it would only require one line of code to be added.  read more »

The Joomla! team has released a security update for Joomla 1.0.x versions. You can help by downloading the patch or full version and submit any bugs you have encountered.

NOTE: Patch packages for 1.0.14 RC1 only exist going back to Joomla! version 1.0.12. If you need to upgrade from an earlier version you will need to first upgrade to 1.0.13 then upgrade to 1.0.14 RC1  read more »