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Baking Jom Comment 4.0

Mark — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:12 +0100

Yes, we've heard you and we are currently working hard on Jom Comment 4.0 . There will be drastic changes since Jom Comment 3.0.1 and one that you should take note of is that it will no longer support Joomla 1.0 since it is already deprecated. Other than that, threaded comments will be made possible and of course, pagination.

Trackbacks and comments are now treated as a 'response' towards an article instead of separating them. There is no release date scheduled yet curreRead More...

Joomla 1.5.12 release

Mark — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:16:48 +0100

The recent release of Joomla 1.5.12 includes an upgrade for TINYMCE and it may affect your current site if you are using older version prior to My Blog 3.0.327. If you are having issues with the editor, kindly please head on to http://www.azrul.com/download.html to download the most recent release.

New download method implemented!

Mark — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We have noticed a slight increase in issues with the downloads lately especially with certain users who did not receive the activation / registration email. We have introduced a new method of downloading instead to solve these issues. To access your downloads, simply click on the link at the footer of the site that says 'Download' or click here to access the downloads.

All you need to do is to provide the order reference number that you received and the email address used during the sigRead More...

My Blog 3.0 coming up sir!

Mark — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Hi guys, Merry Christmas and A Big Happy New Year 2009 to all of you! ;) It's the first day of 2009 and I am currently working on My Blog 3.0 right now. Most of the files / folder structures are now using the Joomla 1.5 format. After restructuring these, adding new features will be much faster / easier as we only need to cater / test for Joomla 1.5. Apart from the file / folder structure changes, codes are restructured massively as well. Which also means that you'll see better / more menu liRead More...

Nicetalk 1.0 ;)

Mark — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Most of you may have noticed that we have recently just released a new component, JomSocial. If you still have not heard about it yet, it is actually a social networking that sits on top of Joomla!. If you want to read more about it, just head on to JomSocial's website . I have personally received a couple of queries on whether the developments of our other components will be halted and the answer is a BIG NO.

We have been working on Nice Talk 1.0 right now and still undergoing Read More...

Google Gears for MyBlog

azrul — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I have been looking for ways to speed up MyBlog editor loading and Google Gears caught my attention. Google Gears is basically a browser plugin by Google that provide additional functionality to your browser, among other things, caching files locally! Bingo.

To get stright to the point, we have already implemented Google Gears support in our internal release. All javascript, including tinyMCE, css and images files will be loaded from your local cache. The editor now loads significantlyRead More...

See us in Denver in December

meriza — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

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 ExRead More...

My Blog 2.0.1 & Jom Comment 3.0.1 Released

Mark — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We have recently released My Blog 2.0.1 and Jom Comment 3.0.1 which includes pretty much of bug fixes since the initial beta release. Some of you might have been wondering why are there more bug fixes as opposed to new features. The main reason is because we are actually modifying the structure of both these components to have backward compatibilities where they both work on Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 with the same set of codes.

After making these structural changes, we should see some Read More...

Google Chrome launched!

azrul — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

By now, you should have heard it already. Google launched a new browser called Chrome, which is available for download from http://www.google.com/chrome . My first instinct is to run all our apps through the brand new browser. So, this post kinda act like a test post. And, congratulation to google, all our component works smoothly on Chrome!.

Having a new browser is always tricky, for web developer like us, yet another browser we need to test it against, and testing does take a lot of tRead More...

Joomla Training

meriza — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

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 liRead More...

Moving to members.azrul.com

azrul — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We are in the process of phasing out http://support.azrul.com site. Instead, we will launch a new members site at http://members.azrul.com . All existing users at our support site should be able to login to the new members site using their existing username(email) and password.

Why the move ?

Support.azrul.com is using Kayako software with limited customization ability. Even the download section is hacked in a way it is not meant to be. It works, but it become very hard for us to offRead More...

Joomla Day Malaysia is a SUCCESS!!!

meriza — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

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 meetinRead More...

Joomla! Day Malaysia 2008 preparation

azrul — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

This week is quite a hectic week for us. On top of working on JomComment 3.0 and MyBlog 2.0 , we are also in charge of organizing Joomla Daya Malaysia 2008. We are always committed to spread Joomla! love around, especially at our hometown, Malaysia. This would be our 2nd year organizing JoomlaDay as project manager, with help from Joomla-My community.

We actually have no idea that there are just so many Joomla user in Malaysia. We originally prepare the venue and the event for 150 partiRead More...

Automatic Drafting? What do you think?

Mark — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Recently, I was trying to write a blog entry here via My Blog and all of a sudden Firefox decided to CRASH itself @.@ and I can't restore the previous session for some reason. It's really a PITA when I have to re-write the blog entries :(

I think My Blog should have an auto drafting feature where it allows a blog entry to be automatically saved while you are typing or maybe when there is an idle activity of 5 seconds.

What do you think? Maybe it's just me beingRead More...

My Blog 2.0 & Jom Comment 3.0 =)

Mark — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

After a long wait, we finally released the beta versions of both My Blog 2.0 and Jom Comment 3.0 . You can actually access both these release in the following forums,

Jom Comment 3.0 - http://forum.azrul.com/index.php/topic,3066.0.html

My Blog 2.0 - http://forum.azrul.com/index.php/topic,3065.0.html

* You will have to be a valid user that owns a license to be in the beta users lists. If you are a license owner and if you are not registered yet in our forums, just register yoRead More...

Follow azrul and the team on twitter!

azrul — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Yes, you can now follow us on twitter now. If you already have twitter account, just head to http://twitter.com/azrul . This is rather experimental, but we will post updates and let you know what's going on around azrul.com office rather frequently.

So, if you havea twitter account? Why not join us? Maybe we'll have an integrated twitter support in MyBlog soon? :)

Joomla 1.5.4 new compatibility column

azrul — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Joomla! 1.5.4 was released yesterday and I have to say, Joomla! team has started to tighten things up. Besides the usual security fixes, bug fixes and some small, yet exciting changes under the hood, there is this new "compatibility" colum under Extension Manage that gets some people excited.

Jom Comment system bot and our ajax system plugin got a red dot there. A couple of our user email us, worried if our component are not compatible with Joomla 1.5.4 .

Relax, there iRead More...

CMS EXPO Chicago is a SUCCESS!!!

meriza — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

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 deveRead More...

A Fond Farewell.

Hazlan Zakaria — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I stand now upon the crossroads between the paths of dreams and newly acquired ambition. It was a tough struggle, but I have made my choice and put it into words, a delivered letter and now into this poignant blog post.

I shall be leaving Azrul.com after today, bidding a fond farewell to the kind folks at AzrulStudio, leaving the "Talk To Us" and support tickets, the many interesting interludes and memorable moments. No more shall I be dotting "i's " and crossinRead More...

A Break From Answering Support Tickets.

Hazlan Zakaria — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

While it has been a blast answering all the inquiries and issues from your support tickets. I have decided to take some time off this week to pursue my hidden passion, performing my poetry to a public audience! I have been writing poetry ever since I was in highschool, but mostly I am a closet poet-wannabee who hides his works in his back pocket, so to speak.

I have fallen in with some rowdy poetic types of late, folks from the "Poetry Underground" From the Read More...