Posted by: Mark in myblog, jom comment on
Jul 17, 2008
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 yourself and send a private message to 'Mark' or 'azrul' with the 'Beta tester request' as the title.
I bet that many of you are wondering what changes are there in both these releases. While I can list some of the changes, I can't really list them all as there are too many to remember and I have a pretty bad memory. ;( Anyway, here are some of the changes in both these new versions
Jom Comment 3.0
- Multi lingual support (Quite a popular one ;] )
- New comment templates (The new template is really sweet)
- Importing utilities from MXComments (Doesn't support special encoded characters yet)
- Reduced server loads by minimizing the scripts that is loaded.
- Recaptcha support
.... and many more
My Blog 2.0
- New intuitive dashboard design (Glossy look yeaha!!)
- Meta options are now added in the dashboard
- Tag slugs (Customize what you want the URL to look like for tags)
- Trackbacks support.
- Email notification when user creates a new blog!
.... and many more
Enjoy yourselves with this new beta release and PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL IT ON A LIVE SITE. ;)
====== Just another great production from Azrul.com======
Posted by: azrul in jom comment, development on
Feb 06, 2008
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.
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.
Posted by: Mark in jom comment, development on
Nov 02, 2007
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!
Posted by: azrul in release, jom comment on
Oct 05, 2007
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' .
Posted by: azrul in jom comment, development on
Jan 31, 2007
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.
