News and blog posts from Anything Digital, the home of the Joomla calendar, JCal Pro. http://dev.anything-digital.com Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://dev.anything-digital.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://dev.anything-digital.com News and blog posts from Anything Digital, the home of the Joomla calendar, JCal Pro. http://dev.anything-digital.com/Blog/jcal-pro-stable-for-joomla-1.5.html We are proud to announce that the first stable version of JCal Pro for Joomla 1.5 is now available. With almost 200 resolved bugs on the tracker, JCal Pro 1.5.13 Stable (Build 414) is a milestone for the development team, testers and community at large. We have also begun work on JCal Pro 2.0. The first new features will include an improved database structure which will make recurring events much more flexible. Multi-calendar support and improved menu selections are also planned for the initial release which has been tentatively scheduled for Dec. 31, 2008. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:07:54 +0100 http://dev.anything-digital.com/Blog/JCal-Pro-1.5.12-RC2-build-394-now-available-for-Joomla-1.5.html Just a quick note to inform you all that Release Candidate 2 of JCal Pro for Joomla 1.5 is now available in the downloads area. This release includes a number of important bug fixes including recurrence dates showing one day early on event details view, toggling time display on the various calendar views and annual recurrences showing only for first occurrence. The complete changelog is available on the forum. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:07:40 +0100 http://dev.anything-digital.com/Blog/Time-zone-and-permission-bugs-fixed-in-build-384.html JCal Pro MVC for Joomla 1.5 took a big step forward in the last few days as we released version 1.5.9 (build 383 and then build 384). Together, these back-to-back releases contain fixes for what appear to be the last major bugs in the new Joomla 1.5-native codebase. These bugs deal with time zone managment for event display on the calendar as well as event submission/edition/deletion permissions on non-english sites as well as english-only sites running on PHP4. While these issues are not security related, we recommend that all users upgrade to the most recent build. We are hoping to squash any remaining bugs in the next few weeks so the codebase can be stabilized. Discuss this item on the forum (index.php?option=com_smf Itemid=71 lang=en topic=3354.0) Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:59:07 +0100 http://dev.anything-digital.com/Blog/revision-control-arrives-for-joomla.html As Joomla 1.5 continues to add new features and bug fixes to the codebase, it gets closer and closer to becoming a true, enterprise-class content management system. However, there are still some features absent from the core functionality which limit the widespread adoption of Joomla in large-scale, mission-critical environments. Perhaps the most obvious of these ‘killer features' are customizable access controls (i.e. advanced user/usergroup permissioning), nested content categories, customizable user registration and revision control. The latter is the management of multiple revisions or ‘versions' of the same unit of information. In colaborative environments, revision control is a mustr but even for the lone editor or content provider, revision control provides a very convenient content back-up solution for those times when you accidentally delete a few... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:53:49 +0100 http://dev.anything-digital.com/Blog/hidden-dangers-of-affiliate-programs.html As a software developer, one way in which we promote our products if through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketting is esentially a link exchange program where the people who post links to your products (on their web sites or in their blogs, newsletters, etc...) get a commission of the sales generated from those links. In fact, you'll notice some of our own affiliate links on the left-hand side of this page under Recommended Vendors . Of course, a software package tracks the affiliate traffic and a very popular version is called iDevAffiliate (http://www.idevdirect.com/). While recently configuring and testing iDevAffiliate for this web site (details coming soon), we noticed something peculiar. When an affiliate signs up for an account, they must provide a username and password and... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:38:05 +0100 http://dev.anything-digital.com/Blog/JCal-Pro-v1.6.x-deprecated.html It is my duty to announce that JCal Pro v1.6.x has been officially deprecated. This Joomla! 1.0/1.5 hybrid was simply too unweildly and overly complicated, especially as we poured more-and-more resources into JCal Pro 1.5.x MVC. However, we are committed to re-engineering many of the features in JCal Pro 1.6 into JCal Pro 1.5.x MVC for Joomla! 1.5.x. Our first priority will be to improve recurring event options and add recurring event exceptions. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:18:07 +0100 http://dev.anything-digital.com/Blog/Forum-reorganization-complete.html In our ongoing efforts to make the forum more intuitive and easy to use, we have recently completed a major reshuffling of the Forums. The most striking difference is that a number of JCal Pro boards have been locked and archived. All active threads for JCal Pro are now restricted to 2 tracks: Joomla 1.0! and Joomla! 1.5. We get many enquiries regarding how to stay up-to-date with JCal Pro and our other extensions at dev.Anything-Digital.com. Besides this newsletter, we recommend subscribing to a board on the Forum. To subscribe for board notifications, simply select a board on the forum such as the Announcements board (Forum/1-Announcements/) and click the ‘Notify’ button at the top-right of the board index. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:17:16 +0100 http://dev.anything-digital.com/Blog/Security-patch-available-for-JCal-Pro-Joomla-1.0-only.html Through the persistence of users ‘sirwiz (Forum/User-profile.html?u=48991)’ and ‘MRJIT (Forum/User-profile.html?u=36248)’, we identified a few low-level security issues affecting JCal Pro for Joomla! 1.0.x (versions 1.5.3, 1.5.3.1 and 1.5.3.2 only). A free patch is available (Downloads/Download-document/62-Security-patch-for-JCal-1.5.3-1.5.3.1-and-1.5.3.2-Joomla-1.0-only.html) to fix these bugs (login required), though we recommend that all users of JCal Pro for Joomla! 1.0.x upgrade to the latest version, 1.5.3.5 (Downloads/Version-1.5.x/View-category.html). Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:16:23 +0100 http://dev.anything-digital.com/Blog/Theme-club-for-JCal-Pro-launches-for-Joomla-1.5.html Back when JCal Pro was born from the ashes of its predecessor, we built an infrastructure to support the installation and usage of themes. However, we soon found out that JCal Pro themes were unnecessarily complicated with poor separation of style and content. Today we solve many of these problems with the official launch the JCal Pro Theme Club (JPTC), the first theme club dedicated to a Joomla! extension. Our initial offering includes 4 themes for Joomla 1.5.x designed by the renowned Joomla! template designed Casey Lee; Fire, Leaf, Ocean and Tree. Until the live demo is ready, you can view previews of the themes (JCal-Client/Theme-Club/Available-Themes.html), become a member of the JPTC (Subscriptions/add.html) and immediately download these original Casey Lees (Downloads/Theme-Club-Downloads/View-category.html). Please be sure to read... Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:13:23 +0100 http://dev.anything-digital.com/Blog/JCal-Pro-MVC-Release-Candidate-now-available.html After about 2 months of furious development and 8 beta versions, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate of JCal Pro for Joomla! 1.5 (index.php?option=com_docman Itemid=53 gid=61 lang=en task=cat_view). This version includes a totally re-vamped scheduling system for events and numerous bug fixes (way too many to list here) including issues with inserting images into the event description. A complete list of changes can be found on the Announcements board of the Forum (index.php?option=com_smf Itemid=71 lang=en topic=3100.0 ). Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:11:13 +0100