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Joomla RubberDoc V0.9.5 has been released

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The new released contains a number of improvement and bug fixes based on all your valuable feedbacks. We would like to thank you for all the comments, star ratings, and reviews that you have posted. We couldn’t have done it without your help. Since the previous support post was getting too long, let’s use this blog post for the support purpose. Please post your concerns, questions, and feedbacks as comments.

Joomla RubberDoc has just been released

This project has been first inspired by our client Social Planning & Research Council of British Columbia (SPARC BC) you can see RubberDoc being used to manage more than 140 documents on their website. We have just launched their Joomla powered website few days ago.

Updates

11-July-2008
# the bug preventing a direct link to doc menuitem has been resolved.
# download links generated by the search plugin are now fixed

08-July-2008
# The corrupted file download issue in a number of browsers has been resolved
# Documents with filesize = 0 are excluded from the list of displayed documents in the front-end

03-July-2008
# {docs}alias{/docs} was not working in the rubberdoc plugin. the bug has been fixed.

Please Feel free to improve the code

The source code is released under the GPL license, so feel free to read through it and improve it if you liked and in that case please give us a copy too. You will get credit for your contribution on the “About” section of the component.

Credits

RubberDoc is a collaborative project done by:

If you find this extension useful, we would really appreciate it if you leave positive ratings and reviews here on this page

[tags]rubberdoc, joomla, extension, document, asset management, content management, cms[/tags]

Joomla RubberDoc 0.9.4 simple bug patches

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July 9th 2008: The html list of links generated by the RubberDoc plugin does not close properly . To fix this issue:

  1. go to plugins/content/rubberdoc.php line 111
  2. replace <ul> with </ul>

July 8th 2008: there is a bug which results into downloaded files with corrupted data. To fix this issue:

  1. go to the components/com_rubberdoc/views/doc/view.raw.php
  2. replace the line 57 to 59 with the following code

$doc =& JFactory::getDocument();
$doc->setMimeEncoding( $mime );
$doc->setModifiedDate( $data->get(‘modified’) );
$doc->render();

header(‘Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”‘.$fileName.’” ‘);
header(‘Content-Length: ‘. $fileSize);

July 3rd 2008: There is a bug which prevents {docs}doc-alias{/docs} tags to work properly within a Joomla article. This only happens when there is only one alias within the tags.

To fix this bug:

  1. go to the plugins/content/rubberdoc.php
  2. on line 149 replace all the instances of $doc[0]->id with $docs[0]->id and $doc[0]->title with $docs[0]->title
  3. save the file

[tags]rubberdoc, bug, patch, joomla, document manager, extension, plugin[/tags]

RubberDoc 0.9.4 has been released

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Joomla! CMSI would like to thank all Joomla community members (Robyn, Jeannette, Marc, Robbie, Saulo, Bridgette, Ryan, Bica, Yvonne, Wade, Tony, Dave, Len, and Jack) who have kindly tested the RubberDoc extension and provide valuable suggestions and bug reports. Ash and I have been busy during the weekend fixing numerous bugs and making improvements to the Document Manager Joomla! extension.

  • You can download the latest relase of RubberDoc here
  • Please post your suggestions, questions, and bug reports here

Private messages are welcome too, but there will be a consulting fee involved.

Thank you :)

[tags]joomla, rubberdoc, extension, document manager, cms, opensource[/tags]

We are at the Vancouver Joomla Day

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We have around 120+ people in the room which is more than the number of people who attended the Tazzu WordPress Camp. Who thought that Joomla! is not as well known as Drupal or WordPress in Vancouver? We proved them all wrong!

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Please tag all your uploaded content relating to this event (youtube, flickr, twitter):

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[tags]vanjoomladay, joomla, vancouver, event, opensource, community[/tags]

Open Source developers aren’t free or cheap either

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Just heard from a friend that a client looking for a “Joomla Expert” hung up on them after hearing their rates. Apparently some people still think that just because they can go and download a free copy of Joomla, Drupal, or WordPress that means any service provided in that domain should be cheap or free as well.

Reality is that Free in open source mostly refers to freedom to read and change the code to make it suit your project goals.

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