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A client of Cory Webb Media, JAJAH Inc., has officially announced today that they have been acquired by European telecommunications company, Telefonica for $209 million (EUR 145 million). When JAJAH, a leading innovator in VOIP communications, wanted to develop a Joomla-powered site to promote their business offerings, they approached Cory…

It's official! Cory Webb Media is the newest Joomla! Track sponsor for the 2010 CMS Expo. The CMS Expo is the premier event for CMS professionals, and our sponsorship of this great event demonstrates Cory Webb Media's commitment to being a leading solutions provider within the Joomla! community. The 2010…

I am pleased to announce that James Hafner has joined the Cory Webb Media team! James brings to the team years of experience working with Joomla! and other popular CMS platforms. He's had his hands in web development for over 5 years, building websites for people and companies in his…

I'm happy to announce that my new book, Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development, is now shipping! You can order it from the publisher's website, or from most online book retailers. Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development will take the reader step-by-step through the process of building a website with Joomla! 1.5.…

What happens in Vegas will definitely be blogged about here, because I have just signed up to attend Joomla! Day Las Vegas on April 4. I haven't yet decided if I wan to attend any of the training classes on April 3, but they all look really interesting. Joomla! Day…

I am happy to announce that I have just put the finishing touches on a Joomla!-specific search engine at resources.howtojoomla.net. HowToJoomla! Resources started as a way to easily search Joomla!-related sites that offer useful resources to the Joomla! community. Using traditional search engines to search for terms like "templates" or…

Mitchitized just posted a link on Twitter to an article at Smashing Magzine titled "Joomla Developer's Toolbox". Glancing through the article, I noticed that my site, HowToJoomla.net, is mentioned several times along with many excellent resources. Check it out.

The team at Azrul.com have finally announced that JomSocial has been released to the general public. If you haven't heard of JomSocial yet, then take a few minutes and head over to their website to learn more about it. JomSocial is going to revolutionize the way that social networks are…

Congratulations to the guys over at JoomlaPraise for releasing ProjectFork! ProjectFork is an open source project management system built for Joomla! 1.5, and I believe it will prove to be one of the killer apps for Joomla. I've been looking forward to this since I met Kyle Ledbetter (one of…

I've been thinking a lot about startups lately. It seems like every time you turn around, there is a new startup built on Ruby on Rails or some other rapid application development framework, but you never really see any Joomla!-powered startups. I'm not talking about startups that cater to the…

Well, I finally did it. I joined Twitter. I usually try to avoid things that seem like fads to me. (I didn't get the first generation iPhone, although I guess I never really thought that was a fad. I just thought it was too expensive.) The more and more I…

I think I must be the only Joomla! developer in the Waco, TX area. The only way I get to interact with other Joomla! developers (besides online... but that doesn't really count) is through user groups in Dallas and in Austin. Are there any other Waco Joomla! developers out there?…