sooodang polite.... honestly! They greet each other all the time, 'sawadekap' x 1000!. Anyway, I didn't take too many photos as Noon (the host) seems to enjoy taking tons of photos. But I manage to snap this 1 photos, Joomla Day Malaysia 2007 Host + Joomla Day

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It’s about five months since the renovations completed at our new office at Amcorp Mall. Take a look at how our office is, in it’s messiest state (when everyone’s busy with product release, with bug fixing, support e-mails and sales!)

This month’s budget includes… Decorating

Hooray! This month The Management allocates some fund in decorating our office space. We haven’t really decided on what to buy yet, but we’ve short-listed a few items that could find a place to call their new home here at the office. Unveiled in the list are:

-         mini-fridge

-         sofa set (more like a sofa-bed)

-         air-purifier

-         plasma TV *smiles* (not this month people!)

I personally opt for the mini-fridge, since I will be using it the most. But I don’t know if the rest care for a tub of Haagen Dazs once in a while? Hhhmmm…

What’s in Our Book List?

In case you don’t know, we also have a monthly budget for books. This month, we went out on a splurge for books. I personally got two books for the office, mainly in Graphic Design to help us out with the Website. Azrul got two, one’s on Ruby-on-Rails and the other’s a book highly recommended by Joel Spolsky in his blog. Here’s what we got from Kinokuniya the other rainy day:

The Little Book of Layouts – David E. Carter

www.Corporate Identity – Hector Guere

Ruby for Rails – David A. Black

Dreaming in Code – Scott Rosenberg

I got the Amazon link for the books just in case any of you like to check them out.

Everyone else in this team spend hours and hours a week scouring the Internet to search for ideas. I personally like them packed in a book. Instead of looking at a laptop screen getting lost in the process, I like to spend my time around the big bookshop at KLCC with chances of getting lost in the idea universe slimmed down in the process when looking at specialized books that capture specialized websites. Hmph.

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We have been working hard last week to move to a new support system, which is now live at http://support.azrul.com . I've transferred all your purchased record to the new system. You should be able to download all updates from your account page from now onwards.

We love to help you and we are dedicated in replying all emails, but we are hoping that you'll take advantage of the knowledge base. Do spend a few minutes browsing through it before sending us an email/ticket. You might be able to solve your issues faster than typing an email. The less email we receive the more time we have to focus on doing what we love most, coding and improving the components, which eventually means that you guys get a better components!

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I was shocked! AkoComment.com was bought by someone and they put a big Jom Comment product image and link back to us, with NO affiliates link!

Although it is a big compliment that someone has taken the trouble to spend a few bucks and some of their time doing this, I am extremely disturbed since it gives the impression that we are the one who did this on purpose.

So, for the record, neither me, my company, our staff, nor any living souls that I know purchased/own akocomment.com domain.  Heck, I don't even own jomcomment.com ! (ok, now, maybe I should do that fast!)  

 

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Starting from Jom Comment 1.8, we will be using a completely new template system. It is a super-fast, super efficient PHP-based template system. It doesn't do the typical 'search and replace' which most template does.

On top of that, we also have a new caching system in place.  We no longer have to rebuild the comment area at every page load. Of course, if you are already using Joomla built-in caching system, your content (along with Jom Comment)  are already cached in anyway.

I run some benchmark and building Jom Comment page now takes between 0.002 to 0. 005 seconds compared to non-cached time of 0.10 to o.15 seconds! That's 75x performance increase.

Anyway, as I said before, if your site already have Joomla caching turned on, this doesn't really mean much to you. 

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We have been experiencing some serious issues with our apache server. It keeps on dying and I have to bring it back every few hours or so. I am not an apache god, so this is a real problem. After a little digging, I found that our server have been chewing too much memory, with almost no free memory left. This all started with the release of our new products, Nice Talk and My Blog.

A quick check on server stat revealed that our site visitor has almost quadruple over the last few days. That is wonderful. But, I'd imagine that there are a lot of frustrated souls out there, those who hit a blank page on our website. You must be thinking that we're some dodgy "vapourware" developer. No, we are not!, and rest assured, our journey and partnership with Joomla! has just begun... and you will see lots of wonderful stuff from us in the future.

Anyway, I've made some changes to our apache setting and add some more RAM. That should take care of it for now. If you had some issues downloading our stuff before this, please try again now.

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