Michiel Bijland

The dust is settling and I feel quite at home in my new place and Joomla! 1.5 is getting closer and closer. It’s time to get busy again with some projects. Languages files are different and my last approach for multi languages support was not a very good one. So first in business I have nearly completed a translation program which fetches the current svn languages files and lets anybody submit a translation for any of my projects. It’s based on the roundcube translator but modified for Joomla! languages ini files.
Hope it’s ease of use and the integration with svn will draw some translators.

I have written 2 new plugins for Joomla! 1.5 today, Widont and Nofollow.
Widont based on a excellent plugin by Shaun Inman for wordpress, but I needed it’s functionality for Joomla! so ported it for Joomla! 1.5. It makes sure your content title or heading don’t have a single word on the next line.

The second is plugin just makes sure every outgoing link in your content has the link attribute “nofollow”. Some Joomla! sites might needed it with a lot of user generated content.

Both can be found on the Joomla! project page, enjoy.

Gallery 2 Bridge component for Joomla was released and we are at version 2.0.14. This version now uses Joomlalib for configuration and caching, but this will grow with the next release. The major change between last release and this one is I have trimmed down many option and made it more user friendly, hopefully this will reduce support request and overall stability.

After some pain stacking moments and some adjusting of our goals we got the trac/svn server working. We are not finished yet as we need a good access model and move all the documentation from the wiki into trac wiki pages.

The access model is going to be based on the vBulletin forum login and passwords, we are still debating on how to handle this correct way, but Brent will write the trac side and I will write forum site of identification process. For now the only once that can really do anything interesting are Brent and I.

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After a week of getting all the pieces to gether and going from xen to VMware. I finally setup a virtual server for http://trac.4theweb.nl. Brent and I just have to install trac and get subversion running and we are good to go.