Posted by: meriza
on Sep 30, 2008
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Last May we were in Chicago for the CMS Expo organized by the good people at Coffee Group, USA, who happens to also organize events for Joomla Chicago user group. At the event, a lot of knowledge was exchanged about Joomla in a highly interactive environment. Many went home, having lots of fun, their questions answered and knowledge gained! The event was highly successful, and due to more than encouraging response, the good guys at Coffee Group decided to hold another CMS Expo, this time, BIGGER with 17 presenters and 26 learning sessions in two days - more talks, more fun! Winter CMS Expo will be held in Denver, Colorado on December 4th and 5th. And we’re going to be there! Azrul will be talking about Advanced Components and Blogging with Joomla. Be sure you’ll be there and don’t miss out on this great event. Check out the details of the Winter CMS Expo here
Posted by: meriza
on Aug 27, 2008
We’ve actually been thinking about this for some time already, but never came around to it until very recently. Yeah, blame it all on work. We’re so busy developing, answering support tickets, having lunch meetings that we never worked on it, until we organized Joomla Day Malaysia 2008. Joomla Day was a fun community event meant for us all Joomla lovers to gather around and talk about Joomla and share our experiences with Joomla. But during the sessions, we found out that many people would like to know more about the technical know-how of Joomla and building Joomla components.
Last year, we made a mock Joomla Advance User training for the IT department at a local university. What initially started as a 20 participant signed in for the training ended up having doubled the number of participants. We didn’t know that many people wanted to learn more about Joomla! So this year, after considering some requests e-mailed to us for Joomla training, we decided to give it a try to offer the training to Joomla users in Malaysia. The Joomla Training will be run by our very own Azrul Rahim and Toby Patterson from Joomla.org. There will be two types of courses that is one Joomla Advance Users Training and another is Joomla Development Training. We will commence training after September and we’re taking up bookings for the training now. First, if you like, take a look at our Joomla Training Page . If you’d like to book a place, you know where to find us!
Posted by: meriza
on Aug 6, 2008
Thanks to all the participants of Joomla Day and all those who helped out – the team at Azrul.com, Toby Patterson from Joomla.org and the crew from Joomla-my.org. Without the long days and nights from all, we couldn’t have pulled off the day’s event! Anyway you guys and gals, the day was a fun filled event and it was a day where those in the Joomla community finally get to meet each other and get to know each one another better and have something fruitful came out of the meeting! During the day, we had Toby Patterson, our own residents, Mark Lee and Azrul Rahim, Lee CY, Syed Fuqaha and Shaiffulnizam take turns to talk about Joomla! Food was abundant, we were served with buffet for breakfast, lunch and tea! The environment was relaxed as we spent getting to know each other, learning more about Joomla and exchanging information on how we could use Joomla in enhancing our website and achieve what we want on the Internet. Our sponsors were generous in sponsoring for the t-shirts and other prizes for the event. Thanks to iJoomla, Joomlart, Packt Publishing and many others (forgive me, the list is just too long!), not forgetting MDeC and the friendly people at Exabytes. For us, it was a great experience in organizing an event and it broaden our experience in meeting more people and getting to know them. Here’s to our next event next year! Don’t forget to take a sneak at our photo’s for the event at
our Picasa Album .
Posted by: meriza
on May 22, 2008
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We travelled half way around the world just to attend CMS Expo in Chicago on May 16, 2008 (formerly known as Joomla Expo). Little that we know, the Expo has attracted over 250 participants from all of USA and some from around the world gathered at the swanky Renaissance O'Hare Chicago Hotel. The expo was a success as it was highly interactive, everybody participated in the talks and we even had a raffle.
What made it even more fun event was that we get to meet other third party developers like Barrie North and the rest of the JoomlaShack team, Merav Knafo from iJoomla, Tom Canavan, Steve Burge, Joe LeBlanc and not forgetting we the warmth given by our most gracious hosts, John And Linda Coonen and Mike and Mrs Carson. Other local Chicago's like Robert Jacoby and Robert Scarry made great new friends! Azrul also managed to entertain us with his highly informative talk on Joomla SEF as one of the talks at the Expo.
The good people at Chicago has taken loads of photo's from the event. Take a look at them here.
Posted by: meriza
on Apr 16, 2008
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We’re off to Chicago in the month of May to join other fellow Joomla! Developers for the big event, Joomla! Expo 2008 that will be held on the 16th May, 2008. This big event will be held at Renaissance Chicago O-Hare Hotel. At the J! Expo, you have the chance to meet and mingle, brainstorm your brilliant ideas with fellow Joomla! developers. We’re hoping to meet up with other Joomla! users in the States that is interested in joining Joomla! Expo on the 16th May.
Reserve your tickets here before seats run out!
Posted by: meriza
on Mar 22, 2007
Hey all, I've been seeing that you guys are not happy at first when My Blog brings you out of your site to post entries? Well, just to make it known to all, The Dashboard in Thickbox allows you to write your blog entries in the Dashboard without bringing you out of your site. Go on, try it!
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