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Submit Your Idea for Google Summer of Code 2015

Believe it or not, Summer is on it’s way, and with it comes Google’s summer of code 2015. It’s the 11th year of Google’s project, designed to help student developers learn about and contribute to open source code.

As in many previous years Joomla is participating and our CEO Soren will be a mentor for the program again this year.

Upgrade your Joomla 2.5 Component to Joomla 3 Using the SQL Import

 Because Joomla is no longer providing support for Joomla 2.5, it recommends that you upgrade your old 2.5 components to 3.0. This is easy to do using our Component Creator SQL Import tool. It can save you around 80% of the work of upgrading manually. And to make things even easier we have a walkthrough video tutorial you can watch.

List of Joomla Contributors (Joomlers) On Twitter

A “Joomler” is a person who actively contributes to make Joomla awesome. It is not only developers but designers, translators, organizers, advisors and volunteers etc.

Featured user: Randy Carey

Starting today, every month, we sit down and talk to one of our users and feature their story on our blog. This month we talked with Randy Carey, web architect and owner of Careytech Studios LLC.

Error 500 Everywhere

There is a common issue that sometimes occurs when building your first component with Component Creator: receiving a 500 error when you try to access the front-end view of your newly installed component.

Many users think this is some kind of bug and I have lost count of how many times we have solved this issue via tickets, forum threads or chats. [...]

What’s the coolest thing you could do with 2 extra hours?

One of the main benefits of using Component Creator is the amount of time you save. Why spend time creating tables and fields when you could be doing something more interesting?

This got us thinking. We calculated that on average each Component Creator user saves at least two hours of work on every component made. So what could you do with those two hours instead? Soon the challenge was on and everyone at the JCC office was hard at work trying to come up with the craziest way to spend two hours. 

New Feature: Calendar Filters in Front-End Views

We have just uploaded to Component Creator a new feature: Calendar filters are now shown in your front-end view in the same way as they are in your administration area.