The Joomla School of Hospitable Technology

The Joomla School of Hospitable Technology

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring over 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We posted all of them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.

This presentation was from Joe LeBlanc. This was the final, the closing session of the event and I don't think we could've picked a more appropriate closing session. Joe is one of my oldest friends in the Joomla community. He wrote many of the first and most useful Joomla extensions tutorials. He certainly wrote the first Joomla development book. We still have some useful tutorials over here at Joomlashack that he wrote over a decade ago.

Joe used Joomla as the jumping off point for a full-stack web developer career. His career has taken him to Ruby-on-Rails, deep into JavaScript and all sorts of other coding skills, working for big e-commerce companies. Joe's topic today is on how you can do the same: how you can get skills you use in the Joomla environment and build a wide-ranging and successful web development career.

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Joomla System Plugins Explained

Joomla System Plugins Explained

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring over 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.

This presentation is from Randy Carey. I've known Randy for many years. I think he presented the last time we had a conference like this five years ago. Randy has a skill of presenting a technical topic in a way that even non-technical people like myself can understand and appreciate. Randy is a long-time member and volunteer of the Joomla community. He is going to be talking about the magic of Joomla system plugins.

They may look like one of a kind of plugin. If you go to your Joomla admin area, there are many different types: Content, Authentication, User. But System plugins are perhaps the most powerful of all. In this presentation, Randy is going to dig into what exactly makes them different and what you can do to power your Joomla site.

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Rapidly Building Semi-bespoke Joomla Templates

Rapidly Building Semi-bespoke Joomla Templates

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring over 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.

This presentation was from Eoin Oliver from London. He has been involved in several Joomla working groups for a few years now. When he first started with Joomla, he loved it. He could make any website look great by buying a template from a club and then putting his fee on top. Often it left him trying to fit the clients ideas into a pre-made solution.

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Yes, You Can Visually Design Websites Without Code

Yes, You Can Visually Design Websites Without Code

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring over 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.

This presentation was from Mike Demopoulos. Mike has been a friend of mine probably for a decade or so. He has been around the Joomla community in all sorts of roles. At the moment, he works for BoldGrid whose main product is a page-builder tool which allows you to do a lot of visual website design without any code. And page-builders are the focus of Mike's presentation.

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How to Rename Folders with the JCE File Browser

How to Rename Folders with JCE File Browser

JCE is a great alternative to the default Joomla editor. It offers tons of useful features, including a component to manage media files.

This is one of the main reasons we use JCE here at Joomlashack. In this short tutorial, we'll show you how to rename folders with the JCE File Browser.

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Building Award-winning eCommerce Sites with Joomla

Building Award-winning eCommerce Sites with Joomla

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring over 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.

This presentation was from Adam Melcher from Nashville, USA. He is going to take you through some advanced tips and tricks he has for building e-commerce sites with Joomla.

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A Fast and Secure Joomla Website

A Fast and Secure Joomla Website

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring over 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.

This presentation was from Victor Vogel. Victor works for Plesk, the company that is deep inside the hosting industry. Victor is deeply involved in Joomla as well. He has I think about one hundred and fifty extensions of the last count and has volunteered and helped out in just about every area of the Joomla project. Victor is a good friend and I am delighted to welcome him to present to us today.

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Automatic Updates are Coming to Joomla

Auto-updates Are Awesome for Joomla

Sometime in the next couple of years, your Joomla sites will be updating automatically.

I believe this is awesome news. I've been in favor of auto-updates since 2014 and finally they are here.

Many people will probably disagree, but we shouldn't be afraid of change. Auto-updates are a very helpful tool to keep sites safe and they're proven to be reliable.

Here's an introduction to why auto-updates are awesome, and how you can use them to protect your sites.

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Visualizing Data with Fabrik with Robbie Adair

Visualizing Data with Fabrik

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring over 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.

This presentation was from Robbie Adair. Robbie has been a good friend of mine for years. She has been heavily involved in Joomla community, including organizing Joomla Day Texas over years. She runs "Fabrik", which she will be talking about today. Robbie and I have partnered on several projects.

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Joomla Content Creating: Pro Tips & Power Tools

Joomla Content Creating: Pro Tips & Power Tools

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring over 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.

This presentation was from Joe Campbell. Joe is one of my oldest friends in Joomla, and is one of the most helpfull and enthusiastic people that I know. You will get a sense of it during his presentation.

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