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the latest code from our svn, copy everything into a temporary file, rebuild the professional and standard edition and archive every single build. It is pretty neat (if I may say so myself) and saves us tons of time.

 

Good news is, I have just finish updating our build script. Our script now will also output, not only standard and professional edition, but also native installer for both Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 . In the next release, you will be able to download the component file that match your Joomla installation. This allow much smoother installation without having to ever turned on the legacy mode. Yes, My Blog will receive similar treatment very soon.


PayPal option at Plimus

Posted by: azrul in plimuspayment on

However, from our experience, there is hardly any fraudulent transaction from PayPal. If anything, PayPal are overly aggressive is approving new sales.

I have send Plimus an email and waiting for their response in this issues. I hope this is just a temporary issue and hopefully, PayPal payment option will be made available soon. At the mean time, if you guys prefer to pay using PayPal, please email support@azrul.com and we will give you the info required.  


Whats Up With 2008?

Posted by: Hazlan Zakaria in development2008 on

 

For the development team, the priority task at hand is probably getting our components fully Joomla 1.5 compatible. We have got Jom Comment to run on Joomla 1.5 RC4 but there are still some wrinkles to iron out. My Blog and Nice Talk is next on the list. Though this process will take time as we think it best to wait until Joomla 1.5 itself is stable.

As usual Mark is standing by to squash all bugs and soothe the savage Joomla beast with the clickity-clack of his keyboard and the melodic lines of his codes, coaxing our components ever closer to 1.5 compatibility.

We will also be looking at rolling out several new products to the Joomla community this new year. While actual details of the new component roll outs are still hush hush and confidential, I am allowed to say that we may be seeing a better way to put up forms and job listings on Joomla soon. Building a better mouse trap so to speak.

Newcomer Eddy Yanto is currently in the thick of the action, as the newest developer at Azrul.com. The first one of many more that we will be recruiting all through the year. Part and parcel of our planned expansion. As Wil Schroter is fond of saying ,"Go Big or Go Home". We have big plans for 2008! Though we do plan to still keep things cozy. Where are we heading? Well let's just say into another blue ocean.

This is what I will be spending most of my time on this first quarter, weeding out the wheat from the chaffs, screening applicants and looking for those few, those happy few, those band of developers that eat, sleep, drink and excrete verified codes. If you have what it takes to be the best or ARE the best do drop me your resume and a note on why we should hire you at hazlan@azrul.com.

Azrul has got himself a new toy this year. After the iphone from last year, Azrul is now all crazy about VPS and virtualization. He has cobbled together a web server and is experimenting with XEN VPS like some Dr. Frankenstein and his stitched up corpse. When he is not spearheading the development team's coding forays he can be found by the side of his newest toy.{mospagebreak}

Much to the chagrin of Meriza, who nevertheless is keeping busy with our many planned community and public relations activities. We are also looking at expanding our market outreach this year. So if there are any interested potential affiliates and partners, do give us a buzz. We would love to hear from you. We are looking for affiliates to market our products as well as partnerships with template producers, 3rd party components developers as well as hosting providers. Interested parties can contact me.

Speaking of community activities, we will be supporting the upcoming Joomla Day Melbourne 2008 where limited FREE COPIES of our standard edition components will be up for grabs. If you are organizing a Joomla Day do let me know and we will see what we can do to support and celebrate your Joomla day with you.

Well that is all thats up with 2008 for now. I hope this will be a good year for us here at Azrul.com as well as for all our friends, affiliates, partners and customers out there. Till later, I bid all a good day and a spectacular year ahead!


My Blog beta v1.0 build 75 released!

Posted by: Mark in Untagged  on

users simply want us to drop the "Lightbox / Thickbox" feature. Therefore, we have made the decision to strip out the "Lightbox / Thickbox" feature and instead insert our own little editor window. Apart from the window changes, the blogging tool now comes with an elegant design and much richer user interface. ;)

Along with the beta versions, a video mambot/plugin for My Blog is now available automatically. The documentations / how-to will come shortly.

More features to come as My Blog matures..

To apply for a beta account, kindly please visit our support forums at http://forum.azrul.com and send a private message to azrul himself or mark.


1.5 compatibility! The king of kings for the day was the jubilant Mr. Azrul himself whose last minute spurt of creativity managed to secure the breakthrough that the whole team has been working towards for the last few days. Coding team newcomer Edwin who was plunged headlong into the compatibility project on his first day, had to be rushed to the pantry for an emergency coffee infusion as he nearly collapsed from the strenous nature of the ordeal. According to coding team veteran Mark, the Edwin debacle is a common sight amongst newer members of the team before they got used to the whirlwind pace and turbulent episodes at Azrul Studio. Meriza, the solitary rose amongst the thorns at the office was just glad this whole thing is over so that the coding team can finally go home to rest, shower and shave. Finally, she can call in housekeeping to take care of the mess that the office has become after days of office-camping by the coding team. While the compatibility issue has been handled, it will still take some time for the kinks to be worked out of the code and for it to be integrated into Azrul Studio's component products. As such, we will only be seeing the compatibility updates out latest by December of this year. For those interested in the development of the 1.5 compatibility project, please tune your browser to our website and watch out for it on our news page, forum or developer blogs. You can also catch the news on the Azrul Studio newsletter. A temporary hotfix will be available soon for testing by our beta testers, those interested can sign up now.


soon alongwith our all new Jom Comment version 2.0 which will include a much richer interface, many more functionalities and also the support for Joomla! 1.5

User's that are awaiting for the support for Joomla 1.5, please be rest assured that we will send everyone a newsletter regarding this, when the time comes and for future customer's, kindly please get ready for a rocking Jom Comment installation with your Joomla! 1.5 RC3 site.

At the mean time, please do visit our support forums to check out on the latest updates of our components.

Have a nice day!


Coming up, Jom Comment 1.9

Posted by: azrul in releasejom comment on

mainly to help us port all our apps across J1.0 , J1.5 and possibly Mambo as well.

1.9 is a pretty significant release. You can look forward to some major new features, such as reworked backend interface, support for social bookmarking, voting features, report comment to admin, email subscription, favorite article and many more.

If you are interested to test the beta, just head to the forum at http://forum.azrul.com sign up as a member and request to be a member by writing a pm to 'mark' . 


Moving forward: PHP and MySQL requirements

Posted by: azrul in Untagged  on

minimum requirement for all our component. Don't panic! We will still support php 4, but a minimum version of 4.3 will be required. This helps us greatly as it allows us to focus on coding and not too worry too much about working around php bugs. Regardless of the announcement by php developers to discontinue php4 by year end, we have no such plan. We do understand that lots of our user still uses php4 and sometimes have no control over the server. (Although, it would be nice if everyone just upgrade to php 5!)

As for MySQL, at the very least, we would require version 4.0. Those of you still running on MySQL 3, please, take a moment to uprade. If you are on a shared hosting runnng MySQL 3, you ought to start looking for a new hosting server. 


Joomla Day Thailand 2007

Posted by: azrul in Untagged  on

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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This is an example of trackback for My Blog

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