JomSocial Blog
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Farewell my dear friends!
It has been a while since I wrote a blog here because I was quite tied up with the development and support. When I initially joined the company, it was a pretty small development firm back in 2007. Slowly, it grew into a large team consisting of over 20 people. I am really happy to see such progress and looking at the growth of JomSocial since it's initial birth really gives me a great feeling of satisfaction. I have seen the ups and downs of the software but I must say that you guys are super amazing and wonderful customers! Never have I seen such great spirit, really!
Just like every plot, there is a happy ending to it. I am sad to say that I will be moving on and will be leaving the ever so wonderful team of JomSocial and Sookachat :(
This will be my final blog entry contributed in JomSocial's journal and I am very grateful to know and meet every single one of you. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to anyone if there are mistakes done on my end, or if I may have caused any dissatisfaction whilst I was here.
I guess some of you might be confused on how the development path might go on, not to worry of course, ROME wasn't built in a day and of course it isn't built by a single person. There are a huge number of great developers , moderators which will still be serving you, Jewei , Fazli , Neil , fuqaha , Lars , Brandon , John Gybels , Kai , Dimas , Johnny and so many others. They will still be regularly attending to your issues and I am very sure that they will perform their duty spectacularly!
To all customers, Thank you once again for all your great support and keep the spirit burning!
To the entire JomSocial team, Thank you very much for your great hospitality here!All the best in pursuing all your social networking needs with JomSocial!
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JomSocial 2.2 RC 1 Available for downloads now!
I am very excited to announce the new availability of JomSocial 2.2 RC1 which will also mark the end of the beta testing. I understand many customers are waiting patiently for Joomla 1.6 compatibility and we've worked very hard towards this for the new release. As updated on our development twitter account, http://twitter.com/jomsocialdev, the number of commits for 2.2 release was 3,000, more than double the commits for 1.8 and 2.0.
It is almost impossible to have all new updates for JomSocial 2.2 tested in all different environments. The RC release will ensure that all new updates are stable and that you will enjoy smooth experience with JomSocial 2.2. Once all errors are eliminated, we will then gear towards a final release.
Some of you who haven't noticed about the earlier beta releases yet, here's some of the many major features that will be included in JomSocial 2.2 RC1:
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Feedbacks on advance search
Do you want to be a part of the contributing community? Let us know what you think should be included or revamped in the upcoming Advance Search for JomSocial 2.2
When we first added Advance Search into JomSocial, our initial goal was to allow users to have more flexibility and control over their search results.
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Preview of upcoming JomSocial 2.0
Yes, you heard it right. This is a sneak preview of JomSocial 2.0. I know most of you have been waiting for this list and to be really honest with you, the list of changes is too long for me to blog about it. So here's what I am going to do, I will summarize it into some of the major features that will be incorporated with a couple of screen shots to go with it.
- Multiple profile system
This is one of the major feature that will be included in the next release. Yes, users can now select their profile types which the site admin has already predefined from the back end. As a site administrator, you can also restrict group creations by different profile types.
- Multiple profile system
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JomSocial Upgrader
We have been working on a new addon which will allow site administrators to easily upgrade without having the pain of making backups and searching for codes they have added / changed. This new addon will compare against the checksum of each files and based on the checksums generated, it will then make a backup for you! Yes, you no longer need to back them up yourself ;) However, this will only work with JomSocial 1.6 and above as the addon will need to compare against the checksum that is generated from each build.
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JomSocial User Management Coming Right Up
I've seen quite a number of users requesting this and have been working hard on the user management. Although it feels like this would be a duplicate of Joomla's user management, after testing our own dog food, we found out that proper user management is really needed. For an instance, for me to view another user's detail, I would need to do it on the front end by browsing / searching for them and it would not be possible to edit them. This feature might be included in the next build as it is pretty handy for site administrators.
Here's some teaser for you guys ;)
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PHP4 support officially dropped
Since the release of JomSocial 1.2, we have decided to officially drop the support for PHP4. Just for your information, PHP has already announced it's end of life for PHP4 and it will no longer be supported since 31/12/2007 .
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Operation aborted error messages in Joomla
If you are getting an error 'operation aborted' in Internet Explorer when viewing the videos page, this is most likely caused by the use of 'domready' in Joomla's tooltip library. The only quick work around right now is to edit the file JOOMLA/libraries/joomla/html/html/behavior.php and at line 109, look for the following block of codes,
$tooltipInit = ' window.addEvent('domready', function(){ var JTooltips = new Tips($$(''.$selector.''), '.$options.'); });';
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Add activities when user signs up on your site
Hey guys, Another small plugin that I have written which will add activity to your activity stream upon new sign ups. This will definitely add more interactions between your site members ;)
You can download it from http://bit.ly/gQraV
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Joomla article with JomSocial Activities
I was pretty bored over the weekends as internet connectivity at my home was cut off !@#!@#$%#$ . I've made a small little content plugin for Joomla which will allow newly created articles to add an activity into existing JomSocial's activities.
To download it, head on to http://www.jomsocial.com/webforum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4693&start=0
