Recently it came to my attention that someone copied one of my free and GPL components for Joomla, made cosmetic changes and started selling it. According to GPL there wouldn’t be anything wrong with that if they also didn’t change the license to a proprietary one (which text they also copied from my non-GPL products) and if they didn’t steal the component’s name as well. For this reason I am getting emails asking for relation with this site, even asking me for support.
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Why am I encoding my scripts
16.09.2009Integrating Twitter into your Joomla site
01.06.2009
Twitter is the new thing on the internet. With it you can leave short updates about what you are up to and your followers will be updated. If you have a Twitter account and a Joomla site you may want to show your latest Twitter updates on it. Using our product AJAX Scroller you can show not only your own updates, but also the updates of all of your friends. And all of them can be loaded and browsed with no extra overhead. Here is how you do it. (more…)
Package extensions for Joomla 1.5 and 1.0 together
30.05.2009
If you ever tried to write an extension for Joomla you probably know that old components, modules, plugins and templates, for Joomla version 1.0, are not compatible with version 1.5. With some minor tweaking, you could get old extensions to run quite nicely in Joomla 1.5 if you turned on the legacy mode plugin.
However, more and more Joomla users require native 1.5 extensions only and won’t bother turning on the legacy mode. The developers convert their old extensions to new ones but they are forced to distribute them separately for different Joomla versions. Here is how you can fit them together so that the same package can be installed both on Joomla 1.0 and 1.5, without legacy mode needed. (more…)
Emir is an Electrical Engineer turned web developer,
one of Joomla founders and a former member of the core development teams of Joomla and its predecessor Mambo.
