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Montag, 23. April 2007 um 10:41
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Ivo Apostolov

Ivo Apostolov, living in Sofia, Bulgaria and I'm 25 years old.

Beside the work for the Joomla! (Translation Workgroup, Q&T Workgroup) and the Joom!Fish and Joomlaboard extensions (as well as some other not so popular extensions I am involved or managing) I'm a Senior Auditor (Financial Auditor) at Ernst & Young ( http://www.ey.com ). There I am in charge for clients like HP, Oracle, News Corporation etc. My free time I spend with as many girls as possible (still single).

About the Fish:

I didn't invented the fish as Alex did, I even didn't make it work with Joomla! (like Geraint did in the early times of Joomla!). Actually, I was invited to join the project due to the fact that I read careful the forums, think and put all the knowledge I gained into the so called "Multilanguage Joomla!" (before Joom!Fish 1.7 was published).

Basically, I put all the hacks of Alex and Geraint to e bundled Joomla! package, that was fully multilanguage (at least it was possible to be). After that I made the things even more complicated with combining packages that were miltilanguage and were supporting some key extensions ( i.e. VirtueMart - thanks Geraint and Soeren, and EstateAgent - thanks Darko).
Actually the first version of the so called "Multilanguage Joomla!" was fully in Bulgarian (including the whole backend) and I hade no ambition to make an English version, till the moment I started recieving 2-3 emails per day (mainly from Russians), to addapt the package for international usage. :)
And I did it.

My future steps for the project are:

  • 1.8 with pushing Alex and Geraint to fix all bugs and mainly to add some important missing functionalities. Also to provide a solid documentation and close the Joomla! 1.0.x support.
  • 2.0 mainly to implement some new logic in language detection and especially to solve as much as possible all issues uprising due to missunderstanding of "How Joom!Fish interpratetes the default language". Almost impossible all this to happend in 2.0, but still ... :)