The 2nd Vancouver Facebook Developer Garage

Vancouver Facebook Developers' GarageOur good friend Gerald Bauer is organizing the 2nd Vancouver’s Facebook Developers (& Designers) Garage event at the Vancouver’s film school. The event will take place in Theatre 1 accessible from the main foyer. Reception will be in place to assist all guests.

When: Monday, January 28, 2008 5:30 PM

Where:
Vancouver Film School
420 Homer Street
Vancouver, British Columbia

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I attended the previous event and after viewing few quite amazing (and not so amazing) presentations I got to meet some really wonderful people such as Boris Mann, Roland Tanglao, Miss 604, my great business associate Ash Sanieyan, and of course Gerald himself. So this event will not only contribute to your development knowledge, but also a great opportunity to meet some really good people in the Vancouver’s technology and business community.

I will be there taking some pictures and blogging. Let’s see what our town’s developers have been cooking up lately.

Facebook probably has more than 60 million users by now. Some of us spend at least 15 minutes or more there, so it is part of our everyday life. Facebook is also a neat framework for developing web applications, and I know quite a number of developers who develop for Facebook including Gerald, Ash and myself (shameless self promotion!)

Btw: this is Gerald’s website. He is a very experienced Ruby on Rails developer and he has been very active brining the community of Ruby developers together.

Facebook Developer Garage Vancouver

Photography by KK+

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Happy New Year to you all

To our blog readers, clients, and friends!

I wish everyone a peaceful, happy, healthy, and wealthy new year in 2008!

May all of your websites run on content management systems and all of your social networks and online communities become populated with large numbers of active users. May open source and open standards liberate your businesses and bring you peace, security, and growth.

Happy New Year

[tags]newyear, rmdstudio, open source, content management, cms, happy, wishes, 2008[/tags]

Did I hear a code freeze?

Last Friday, Wilco Jansen the Joomla!’s Development Coordinator announced a code freeze. That’s usually a good news. A code freeze means another Joomla! release is on the way, and this time perhaps we are looking at a stable release, or is it? let’s wait and see …

Yes we are excited. Joomla! CMS version 1.5 is finally mature enough to become the framework for many future web projects. Joomla! CMS 1.5 has been written from scratch based on a Model View Controller architecture and it is very modular. An ideal framework for building content management driven websites, Intranet solutions, and Social Networking websites.

Our friend Amy Stephen on OpenSourceCommunity.org has already started a party!

[tags]joomla, codefreeze, amy stephen, community, open source, cms, content management, web application development, framework[/tags]

Register here for the First Vancouver Joomla DocCamp

We have already made the announcement here on the rmd Studio website. We are getting together on January 19th 2008 at the Network Hub to write documentation for the new Joomla! 1.5 content management system.

Please Announce your availability by registering here.

January 19th 2008 Vancouver Joomla! DocCamp

We would like to thank Minna and Robert at the Networkhub who have given us their beautiful work space including free Wi-Fi access.

The Network Hub

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Joomla! 1.5 RC4 (code Karibu) has been released

Joomla! CMSFollowing the last week’s public bug squashing event that we did ( part 1 – part 2 ) with other 5 other major cities in the world, 100 commits were made and 88 bugs have been fixed by 52 of community members who have participated in the process.

Today we are proud to announce that Joomla! CMS version 1.5 Release Candidate 4 has been publicly released, and we are already looking forward to the next major release of our beloved content management system which will be the stable version.

Joomla! CMS 1.5 is the world’s best open source content management system and web application framework which has been rewritten from scratch based on a new Model View Controller (MVC) architecture and it is going to become the foundation for many next generation CMS based web applications, Intranets, and Social Media frameworks.

Joomla! CMS is especially well known for it’s intuitive and easy to use User Interface, and very modular software architecture.

[tags]joomla, open source, collaboration, cms, content management, rmdstudio, web application[/tags]