The release 2.0.4 of JoomFish targets several minor issues related handling and usability as well as one important security issue that was reported recently. This is why it is highly recommended to update all your Joomfish powered websites with this latest release.
For your upgrade process you can easily install the full distribution package of JoomFish over your existing installation. Alternatively we provide several patch packages which allow an easy upgrade using FTP or other file access methods. You can find all files as well as further information to the new release on your download page.
With the release of 2.0.4 the Joomfish team will set the support for PHP4 to a deprecated status. The next release 2.1 will only support PHP5 based servers and adds the capabilities to support PHP 5.3. The next release, which is already available as pre-release for JoomFish Club members, will include several changes for the optimization of your translation process as well as better in-component documentation.
It is always astonishing how time is flying if you work in a great team. The first version of Mambelfish was published back in 2004 and with the move to Joomla the JoomFish project was born. Already back at this time Robin Muilwijk helped the project in translation of our UI and testing the solution for various languages and server scenarios. Together we developed the next (now current) generation of Joom!Fish, version 2.0. Robin was testing a lot and gave us a very useful feedback from his perspective as user and website integrator. End of the this month now Robin will leave the JoomFish core team, to focus on his family and work. He will stay connected with the project as contributor and still be around in our community. The whole team likes to thank him for his work in the core team over the past 4 years. Thanks a lot and and farewell. We hopefully see you once again on one of the events here in Europe.
With the growing community the Joomfish project is happy to have members such as Harri Susi and Carolien de Groot who are helping as moderators in our forum. Beside answering questions they also help to improve our structure and documentation of the project in various fields. We are very fortunate to announce today that Carolien will join the JoomFish core team starting with November this year. Her main focus will stay on the forum moderation and support for our club members. Beside this she will work in the fields of documentation and try to help a more complete base of tutorials, documents and information around the Joomfish project. So in the next time you can expect a growing base of information about how to use Joomfish or how to integrate Joomfish in your web solutions. If there are any ideas, suggestions you have please feel free to post us a note in our forum.
Once a year the whole JoomFish team tries to meets in person to discuss the current status of the project and suggestions to improve. This year we took the opportunity to have the JoomlaDay Germany in the middle of Europe to get the team together. The event was great and we had a lot of people, users and customers talking to us during the various sessions. It was really impressive to see what some of our users have achieved with the JoomFish core extension. We will start to blog about these solutions and projects soon.
Results of the summit
The JoomFish summit itself was great too. We enjoyed a couple of more hours within Bad Nauheim and had quite some talks about the forum, project, development and other things. We had the great opportunity to meet in person what is always a good thing. I hope next time Robin can make it too.
Some of the results you might have seen already. We discussed a simplification of our forum structure which was already implemented beginning this week. Also we discussed about the development status for 2.1 and future versions. We agreed that 2.1 will be released very soon. The primary focus will be on a better user experience and documentation for the core extension pack. Therefore we are doing some changes to the default values and also make sure that the documentation is completely updated. An other part of our work has been the complete check of the code so that it is PHP 5.3 compatible. The versions 2.2 and other will include some more features as those listed on our feedback site.
Thinking about how you could contribute to Joom!Fish?
With the success of our online video tutorials we decided to do some more work in this direction. If you have suggestions or wishes please let us know about them in our forum. We are also actively searching for a contributor who is able to support us with creating video tutorials for the starting steps with JoomFish. Our vision is to have about 5-10 video tutorials each of max 5 minutes that explain the first essential steps with multilingual websites and the installation, configuration and usage of JoomFish. If you are intersted also please use our fourm and we will get in touch with you.
The Joomladay 2009 in Germany was a very successful and interesting event. We had a couple of presentations related Joomfish and also direct talks to our users and developers using Joomfish. We like to thank all of the participants, speakers and friends visiting the event and made it such a success.
One of the talks we had on Friday was the presentation of multilingual websites with Joomfish and which steps you need to get your multilingual site up and running. The presentation attached is the introduction with some general information (in German). Most of the setup and integration was discussed on a live demo based on our demo website. We will add some more information, videos and documentations to our system soon.
The discussion with the participants of the talk was great. The overall feedback extremely positive and we have seen examples of websites with more than 12 languages integrated by members of the audience. Their feedback and comments are very motivating and we will carefully consider all we have been said.
Thanks again for joining our talk, the overall JoomlaDay 2009 in Germany and looking forward meeting you again in 2010.
Next week the Joomla!Day Germany happens. This is going to be one of the most exciting events this year in Europe and the Joom!Fish team is proud to support this event financially and with most of our team members.
During the Community Day on Saturday 26th of September 2009 you will be able to meet our developers and moderators.On this day we will also have a very interesting discussion about multilingual websites and their integrations within Joomla. We are very happy that Johan Janssens from the Nooku project will also attend this session and we can discuss the complete picture of of multilingual solutions and may be a bit of their future within Joomla 1.6/1.7.
In order to support this unique opportunity we today start a "lucky draw" for one Community Day Pass within our forum. Check out the post and sent a reply until the official deadline. At this time we will do a draw from all forum members that replied (Membership in the forum is for free - so make sure you have registered your account ;-) ).
We are looking forward meeting you in Bad Nauheim next week
The Joom!Fish Team
PS: If you don't have you tickets yet, there are very less still available. Make sure to crap them before the event is sold out.
There is a new site ranking Joomla based websites based on their traffic and some other criteria. Among those sites listed - currently the top 500 sites based on Alexa - Joomfish.net is the middle field with rank 275.
I think this is already a great success and would like to encourage the Joom!Fish community to rank our site there too. Lets see if they run second test if we can improve our site and the usage of the project within the Joomla sphere.
After two years without a Joomla!Day in Germany this year the event comes back with an ambitious lineup. Today the Joom!Fish team is honored to announce that we are officially sponsoring the whole event and will be present on all three days.
The event starts with the Virtuemart Day 2009 on Thursday 24th of September. This day promises to be the e-commerce information buster for everybody involved in the shopping sites based on Joomla. And I know that the virtuemart team is working on some very, very cool presentations. The Joom!Fish core developers Geraint Edwards and Alex Kempkens will be there as well and answer questions on how to integrate virtuemart with Joom!Fish to make your whole shop multilingual or even setup country specific shops with a lot of different tweeks, concepts and information.
On the Joomla! Business Day (25th of September) the Joom!Fish project will present the most recent version of the project and give a talk about the integration of multilingual websites. Geraint and Alex will be there to answer your questions and give you specific insides of issues related the project. During the whole day you can meet a lineup of Joomla and 3rd Party developers that will be outstanding. People claimed other Joomla!Days to be special because of their speakers - I would argue this Joomla!Day becomes special and outstanding because of the combination of speakers, developers and you!
For the Joomla! Community Day (26th of September) the Joom!Fish team is very honored that all our moderators (Carolien <aka caro86g> and Harri <aka Tassu>) as well as the rest of the Joom!Fish Core team will join in. On this day you can join in for a great discussion about multilingual websites and the solutions in general. We will have an open round to discuss solutions, concepts and related ideas for the future.
The list of people attending the event grows every day. And we highly suggest you make your final decision before the summer holidays - otherwise you never know if there is still a possible ticket available. Check out the Joomla!Day website and tell us if you come. Comments with - yes I'll be there are very welcome.
Looking forward meeting you in Bad Nauheim 24th to 26th of September 2009
This demo is a 8 language site using the Joomla sample data (and others are being worked on). We'd like to add more languages to the demo so if you know of another language where the Joomla sample data has been translated then please let us know in the forum.
On the demo site you can try out the Gold Member frontend translation addon (Joomfish Plus). Before you do so you should take a look at the demo video that shows how it is used. For the demo you can login as a German translator. The username and password combination is german/german.
As soon as you login you will be able redirected to Joomfish Plus and can start translating. Remember to set the source language for your translation from the language icons at the top of the page.
If you return to the mainsite you can always return to the translation via the "translate" menu item in the main menu on the left of the home page.
Are you already following? Yes Joom!Fish also posts it's most recent news, information on twitter. At http://twitter.com/joomfish. As we are even answering some support questions via this forum it might be a good idea to follow us there. It can also be that we are going post some other pretty interesting infos there - why only blog?
Beside twitter you can also find information about the Joom!Fish project on various other platforms and web portals. If you are missing us on one of them, let us know. If it makes sense for us we will try to provide you more information about the project in your preferred environment as well.
It didn't happened with a big bang, nor did I heard a lot of people screaming about it recently. The Joomla 1.0.x series served a lot of people for a huge number of websites. Some of these websites are already migrated to Joomla 1.5.x series but I assume many of them are not yet. So what are we going to do with them?
With the definition of the end of life the Joomla development team will no longer support this code. This means that security issues or other fixes are not being released anymore. In general this doesn't affect an existing site as long as there is no new issue - but who knows? Actually this means you need to upgrade now! There is no excuse that the migration costs time and effort, or that the extension you like to use doesn't exist yet. All major extensions are meanwhile converted to Joomla 1.5 and they run either in legacy or even in native mode within the new framework. The migration path is possible even for quite complex and big sites. Yes it takes time and effort, but this is less than any hack or security related issue.
For the Joom!Fish project the Joomla 1.0.x EOL means we are no longer supporting our Joom!Fish 1.x versions. We will keep these files available on joomlacode but we highly recommend everybody using the Joom!Fish 2.x series. Within our forum we have moved the 1.x related forums and will close them for read only access pretty soon. Joom!Fish 1.8 was a great extension and it also serves a lot of people on a lot of websites. The latest 1.8 package was downloaded nearly 124.185 times which is an impressive number.
We like to take this opportunity to thank all our contributors, customers, users and friends for their commitment to the project and the ongoing support. The whole Joom!Fish team is focusing at the moment on the release of the up-coming version 2.1 which will may be sometimes reach these high numbers of downloads of one single file.
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After two years without a Joomla!Day in Germany this year the event comes back with an ambitious lineup. Today the Joom!Fish team is honored to announce that we are officially sponsoring the whole event and will be present on all three days.
