We are very excited to announce that our first alpha release of JomSocial REST server is available for testing from the development forum. This early build is of course, still minimal in features and serves only public data at the moment. Future builds with proper authentication system are being developed as we speak.
But, what is a "REST" server? Well, it doesn't actually mean that your server can take a rest and process less data. It is simply a new way to represent your content to the rest of the world. A REST server implementation opens many new possibilites for you to serve your content. For example, developing a widget based on your existing photo gallery would be a lot easier.
You may also allow your data to be streamed from other sites, or even on mobile devices. You may create a native iPhone apps that allow users to interact with your content. Someone might be interested in building a mobile application that allows status update from a mobile device. Perhaps a desktop application that allow your to manage your photos online better. All of these will be made possible with our REST server implementation.
I just wanted to share with you some of our ideas that didn't make it to the final build. We have tons of ideas and out talented designer occasionally come up with some ideas just for fun. Many of these work never get out of our hard-disk, but I think, what the heck, lets just show them to everyone.
Malaysian office is getting ready to celebrate yet another New Year...just on a different calendar! We will be celebrating Chinese New Year in a few days. It's one of the biggest holidays in Malaysia, and in observance of this Holiday, most of our staff will be taking a few days off.
Our support access will be limited from Friday, February 12 to February 22. Our US office will still be open and the team there will be responding to your sales & billings tickets, but if you are planning to do a major modification and/or installation, we suggest that you hold off until our entire tech support team are all back from the holiday break. We don't want to leave you hanging there all alone!
JomSocial team will be at the upcoming Joomla Day Melbourne 2010, in... well, Melbourne!. We'll be giving a short presentation on JomSocial and will be there to answer your questions. Say hi to us and a limited edition, highly sought after JomSocial t-shirt will be yours!
As many of you would already know, Joomla has a long and deep history with Australia in particular, going all the way back to the Mambo days. In fact, some of Joomla core developers and co-founders are from Australia. For this Joomla Day, Andrew Eddie, Sam Moffatt and Brad Baker, names that should be very familiar with the Joomla community, will be there to share their knowledge.
JomSocial 1.6 codename Brillo is finally here!. We've worked long and hard on this release, adding new features and refining the product to make a faster, streamlined... just plain better JomSocial. And we think you will agree, this version rocks!
So what's new about JomSocial 1.6, erm, Brillo? Well, for starters, we have resolved over 170 minor issues that were logged in our internal issue tracking system. You can view the complete change log here, but let me briefly highlight some of JomSocial Brillo's exciting new features:
I want to talk about 1 particular trigger point that we added to JomSocial 1.6, that is so simple, yet massively powerful.
We are talking about "onBeforeControllerCreate" trigger point. This trigger allows any plugins to override the controller object creation with any other object type. To put it simply, plugins now have the ability to redraw or control access to any JomSocial page easily, without hacking any of our core files.
Let me perhaps paint a picture of what is possible.
In case you haven't heard about it, let me announce it properly. JomSocial 1.6 will have a powerful, seamless support for Amazon S3 storage. For now, the support includes both videos and photos, where you can serve the files directly from Amazon's servers, bypassing your servers, thus reducing site load and bandwidth consumption.
When we started thinking about support for remote storage, there are a couple of ideas that we considered. For the technically inclined, providing a virtualized file system, where local file and remote file looks exactly the same, seems like a good idea. However, to ignore latency issues would be a huge mistake. Access to local files are FAST and accessing remote file is orders or magnitude slower. That is a fact.
It has come to our attention that some JomSocial users have been receiving emails from a solicitor seeking validation of their JomSocial license. We would like to assure you that we do not engage any solicitor to perform such validation and we believe this is a phishing attempt. There is no security breach that might have exposed your data or privacy. Your purchase data is safely protected by Plimus.com
As always, exercise extreme cautious when someone is asking for money via email. If you are a paid customer, please ignore the email. If you are currently using an unlicensed copy, we would appreciate it if you could send the payment to us, instead of those bogus lawyer.
We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We are investigating this further and in the meantime, you can safely ignore such email and continue using JomSocial on your sites. We would appreciate if you could also report such doubtful emails to abuse@jomsocial.com . Until the technology that allow us to block email sent to you is available, please be careful with all the emails that you received.
We have an important message to our valued affiliated and customers regarding JomSocial’s name and logo usage policy.
The name “JomSocial” is a trademark owned by JomSocial’s founding company, Slashes & Dots Sdn Bhd. Having said that, we permit you the use of “JomSocial” name without prior permission from us under the following conditions.
1.You may use the name and logo in any copy as long as it doesn’t imply ownership of the name or logo, or endorsement from our end. In other words, as long as you’re not trying to pretend to be us, you’re ok.
