Posted by: fuqaha
on Mar 2, 2012
We had the most pleasant surprise last weekend subsequently after the release of the first JomSocial 2.6 Release Candidate. Our development site and this particular blog were visited by thousands of visitors in a matter of hours, with a surge of download activity that almost choke the unoptimized secondary server for the development site. Luckily for us, the little server proved to be a tough nut.
Putting the features to the limit
We thought all was well, but we were wrong. Soon after the release of RC One was announced, we began to receive reports of download failures with no clear cause nor replicatable procedure for us to simulate the download error. Some were using Chrome, we were also using Chrome. Some were having problems with Firefox, we have none. Some say IE worked, while other browsers failed. Some say clearing the cache works, some say nada. Some say he's terrified of ducks, and his blood is blue.. but all we know is he's called the Stig. We were dumbfounded, especially realising the the new file upload is one of the most awaited features in JomSocial 2.6. We marched on, and did some more load test and boy it was fruitful. We found out that while the download feature works fine on an average community site, it however could fail should hundreds or thousands of users attempt to access the file simultenously.
Posted by: fuqaha
on Jan 27, 2012
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tutorials ,
support ,
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open source social networking software ,
migration to joomla 2.5 ,
Joomla 2.5 ,
jomsocial 2.6 ,
JomSocial 2.4 ,
development ,
community ,
announcement
Requirements
1. The website must be at least on Joomla 1.5.21 (the minimum version that JomSocial supports)
2. A running JomSocial 2.4.2 or above (optional, if you wish to migrate JomSocial data)
3. An instance of Apache running locally / in localhost. The easiest method would be having XAMPP installed.
Posted by: fuqaha
on Jan 27, 2012
Tagged in:
tutorials ,
support ,
site updates ,
open source social networking software ,
migration to joomla 2.5 ,
Joomla 2.5 ,
jomsocial 2.6 ,
JomSocial 2.4 ,
development ,
creating social networking sites ,
community
Once you are satisfied, and have verified that the migrated tables are in working order, follow these steps to replace the live Joomla 1.5 with the newly migrated Joomla 2.5 website.
Posted by: fuqaha
on Jan 10, 2012
New My Group Updates view to get users connected to updates from their participated groups. All in one place.
Posted by: jacq
on Sep 20, 2011
Hi, I’m Jac, the Social Media enthusiast of JomSocial. Today I will talk about how and why social networking will bring a change to your website and making it different amongst others. Here’s how social network will make your site stand out :
“The world wide web is constantly changing and interacting”
Posted by: irwan
on Aug 16, 2011
There are a lot of reasons to adopt your own social networking. Some of you do it to increase traffic, build a niche community for the business, or simply to keep in touch with your friends. No matter how you will use it, social network is the way of the future. There are a lot to think when it comes to building your own social network. Here we have 5 aspect in choosing the best social networking software for your community.
Social Network features
Each community has unique requirements that differentiate them from the rest. It is important for you to identify important features most suitable for your niche. For example, does it allow video sharing or video hosting? Do you need event management? How about groups feature? Does it respect your members’ privacy? You can usually find the answer by going to your social networking script's feature page.
Posted by: irwan
on May 20, 2011
Social media plays an important part for online community today. Here we will present to you a collection of tutorials to help you create your very own Facebook clone on your website.
Posted by: azrul
on Jul 5, 2010
Last Friday, we had the honor of having one of the Joomla! core developer, Sam Moffatt in our office. He spent a couple of hours with JomSocial team and gave us some personal insights into the upcoming Joomla! 1.6.
I can tell you that we are pretty excited with Joomla! 1.6 and what it offers. As far as JomSocial is concerned, we will certainly make our code runs smoothly with Joomla! 1.6, making JomSocial the best open source social networking software for Joomla! 1.6. Work on this has already begun and in fact other than some plugin issues, we are almost good to go.
Posted by: irwan
on May 12, 2010
We are happy to introduce a brand new way to enjoy JomSocial: JomSocial Hosted! JomSocial Hosted is an exciting new solution that combines the robustness of the Joomla CMS with the social networking power of JomSocial in an easy-to-set up, easy-to-use hosted solution.
We believe that Joomla and JomSocial, open source social networking software are a great team. And by offering them both as one hosted solution, there are lot of advantages for website owners--including a no-hassle/quick set-up time, award-winning hosting from Rackspace, exclusive JomSocial themes & extensions, and a great price, etc...but best of all, easy to use!
