About Me
Basic Information
- Personal Website
- http://www.theartofjoomla.com
- Gender
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Male
- About me
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I'm a co-founder of the Joomla project and was with the Mambo project before that since Feb 2003. I contribute to the core code of Joomla and also speak at many Joomla Days and conferences around the world.
I was a civil engineer for 10 years before moving into IT in 2000, finally starting my own Joomla-based consultancy in 2005.
My company web site can be found at www.newlifeinit.com and my technical Joomla blog can be found at www.theartofjoomla.com for all to enjoy.
Ohloh:
http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/eddieajau
Contact Information
- City / Town
- Toowoomba
- State/Province
- Queensland
- Country
- Australia
- Company Website
- www.theartofjoomla.com
Education
- Degree
- Bachelor of Civil Engineering, 1st Class Honours; Graduate Diploma in Structural Timber Technology
- College / University
- University College of Southern Queensland; University of Central Queensland
- Graduation Year
- 1990
Joomla! Cred
- JED Profile
- http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/owner/eddieajau
- Resource Directory Listing
- http://resources.joomla.org/directory/other-services/consulting/newlifeinit.html
- Forum Profile Link
- http://forum.joomla.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=7
- Years of experience
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More than 3 years
Social Media
- http://twitter.com/AndrewEddie
- http://www.facebook.com/eddieajau
Groups
- Karma
- Member since
- Thursday, 22 April 2010 23:07
- Last online
- 4 weeks ago
- Profile views
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Guys, if you want to debate the relative merits of reviews (thrashed to death already on the JED forum where the bottom line is there is no definitive answer and everyone has a different opinion), please start a new thread. If you successfully mount
26 days ago
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COI can never be eliminated, but is a tension that can be managed. One such tension that exists in the JED at the moment is where extension developers in the JED team are approving listings or reviews. One way to manage this is such people to excus ...
27 days ago
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Blast. Cut off. Here's part 2: I think reviews dot points can be consolidate as follows: * Reviews are open to all except the listing owner, their family and/or employees or contractors. * Reviews are the opinions of the respective authors and not
28 days ago
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@Beat, I agree with inflecting to a positive tone (where possible, like how do you frame "no sexually explicit stuff" in a white list format), however, I think the rules are fairly simplistic as is. Can you give me an example of how to make the whol
28 days ago
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29 Nov 2011
Making the most out of code assist in Eclipse/PDT and Zend Studio for PHP
One of the powerful features of an IDE like Eclipse is the ability for it to "read" your code and give you some assistance about your API as you type. This could include things like class property or methods names, constants, functions, argument lists, and so on. Eclipse/PDT and ZendStudio do this by parsing a PHP class directly, but they also look at your docblocks and some other special comments where the raw PHP is not enough. This article is a bag of tricks that help you get the most out of code assistance using Eclipse/PDT or Zend Studio in those awkward corners of your code that you might have through previously inaccessible.
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10 Feb 2011
Database upgrades in Joomla 1.6
The Joomla database structure has remained relatively constant since Joomla 1.0 was first launched in 2005, and even beyond that to Mambo 4.5.2. After six years, it was time to refactor, fix many issues holding Joomla back, and set the stage for the next five or six years of development. The Converting Old Extensions guide has been updated to include changes in the Joomla 1.6 database schema, and this article provides further information on how that might affect common database SQL queries.
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7 Feb 2011
When should developers upgrade to Joomla 1.6?
The previous article, "when should site owners upgrade to Joomla 1.6?", looked at the things a Joomla web site owner would consider when trying to answer that question. But what about the developer? Do they have the luxury of "it depends" or is the question more critical, or less urgent for them. This article looks at some of the issues that face the Joomla extension developer and how they differ greatly from that of the web site owner.
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5 Feb 2011
When should site owners upgrade to Joomla 1.6?
Should I upgrade my site to Joomla 1.6? Can I upgrade it? Where are the extensions for Joomla 1.6? Is Joomla 1.6 stable?
These are but some of the many questions rushing around the Joomla community at this very moment. But because of the wide variety of web sites built on, and extensions built for Joomla 1.5, such questions don't always have a definitive answer. This article attempts to provide some information about how to weigh up these questions for your own site, because every web site is different.
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27 Jan 2011
More on upgrading plugins to Joomla 1.6
My previous video outlined some of the changes that are required to make a plugin install in Joomla 1.6. There are a number of other modifications that are required concerning changes to event names that the extension developer needs to be aware of in order for plugins to work successfully in Joomla 1.6.