JomSocial Blog
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JomSocial Translation Project
Putrajaya Hot Air Balloon Festival, Malaysia. Photo by Kevin Poh.
This is an open secret. We have an international translation project hosted at Transifex.org. The project, though has been mooted for over a year can only be announced today as we were pretty much occupied with development of the newest JomSocial 2.6.
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JomSocial 2.6, performance is our top priority
fuqaha on Mar 20, 2012
Tagged in: updates, joomla social networking site, Joomla 2.5, jomsocial 2.6, creating social networking sites, community
The release of JomSocial 2.6 has been rescheduled to be on 26th of March 2012, Monday.
This decision has been made as we found out that certain parts of JomSocial 2.6 should be much faster than it currently is.
Balancing performance and features is always a delicate matter, most especially in an organic community deployed using JomSocial because we have to consider a multitude of possible system setups and configurations that JomSocial runs on. There are a lot of cases whereby requested features are simply way to advance to be handled by a shared or VPS environment. Apart from performance, scalability is also high in the equation. -
Download JomSocial 2.6 Release Candidate Two for free!
fuqaha on Mar 2, 2012
Tagged in: updates, open source social networking software, Joomla 2.5, jomsocial 2.6, development, creating social networking sites, community, announcement
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.
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Updated JomSocial templates are on the way!
fuqaha on Feb 13, 2012
Tagged in: updates, support, showcase, preview, Joomla 2.5, Joomla, JomSocial template, jomsocial 2.6, development, community, announcement
We are honored to be part of the Joomla ecosystem, a shining beacon of light in mostly disorganized domain of Content Management Systems. All good criteria people most associate in a good system is there, speed, reliability, security, extensibility and community.
Community is the keyword. While some other open source management systems may boast some of the criteria, little actually have a well-organized and strong community behind it. The Joomla ecosystem is a robust network of code contributors, extension developers, users, and template developers who have colored and shaped this once a reborn of Mambo CMS into a now highly successful and most used CMS on the planet. Joomla, we love you!
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Preparing Joomla 1.5 site for Joomla 2.5 migration
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, 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.
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Comparison of Joomla 2.5 Migrators. In review: jUpgrade
fuqaha on Jan 27, 2012
Tagged in: tutorials, top social networking software, support, site updates, migration to joomla 2.5, Joomla 2.5, jomsocial 2.6, JomSocial 2.4, development, community, announcement
We initiate this migration experiment by utilizing jUpgrade. jUpgrade is a popular migrator which has helped many to move from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.6/1.7 not so long ago. It is frequently mentioned in numerous Joomla migration articles, in the Joomla Community blog, and also within the official Joomla Wiki.
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Joomla 2.5 Migrator Review J2XML Importer
fuqaha on Jan 27, 2012
Tagged in: tutorials, support, site updates, migration to joomla 2.5, Joomla 2.5, jomsocial 2.6, JomSocial 2.4, development, community
J2XML seems to be the cleanest way to migrate users and content in Joomla 2.5 with the use of XML files. I was almost led to believe this little component should be the focus of this migration tutorial, but I was disappointed at the end of my experiment to find out it has one very serious omission that may cause other migrated components to fail.
If you wish to simply migrate Joomla Users and Content, and to start clean on Joomla 2.5 with new components (these components having fresh data), then this is the quickest path to achieve it. But if you wish to migrate data from other components such as JomSocial, Kunena, jReviews or others, you might want to avoid this migrator and rely on either jUpgrade or SP Upgrade instead.
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Joomla 2.5 Migrator Review SP Upgrade
fuqaha on Jan 27, 2012
Tagged in: tutorials, support, site updates, migration to joomla 2.5, joomla social networking site, Joomla 2.5, Joomla, jomsocial 2.6, JomSocial 2.4, development, community
Ok, remember when I said J2XML seems to be the cleanest? Well, SP Upgrade on the other hand seems to be the easiest. I was first reluctant to try this migrator given its cost (Euro 25), even more so when I notice how tiny the migrator is. At 13kb, it is certainly the smallest migrator, and component that I have ever encountered! Boy I was fooled. It packs a punch for its size. If you are willing to spend a bit, this migrator is certainly the one.
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Moving Joomla 2.5 from localhost to live site
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. -
Migrating JomSocial Data into Joomla 2.5
fuqaha on Jan 27, 2012
Tagged in: tutorials, support, migration to joomla 2.5, Joomla 2.5, JomSocial 2.4, development, community
At this stage, it is assumed that Joomla User information has been successfully migrated to Joomla 2.5, and their information such as userid, username, password and email are intact. Again, userid MUST be intact! If your Administrator userid was 62 in Joomla 1.5, it has to be 62 in Joomla 2.5. This is the point where J2XML failed in our previous migration attempt. What a pity since it could have been one perfectly suited component for our needs.
Before we get started, the first thing that you will need to do on the newly migrated Joomla 2.5 is to install JomSocial. Yes, that’s right. This step is important for Joomla to capture JomSocial as an installed component, and for JomSocial to generate JomSocial Toolbar in the menu system.
