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So I need to tell you about Gantry because most of you that been reading this site forever already know we used Gantry back in the day. All them JoomlaMafia sites, my sites, client sites, Gantry was under a lot of it.
Then it just sat there. Nobody was touching it. Our old friend Andy Miller closed down RocketTheme and Grav went stale and Gantry went stale right with it. Word was someone from the old freenode IRC server took it over. I don't know if you remember freenode but I do, I lived in that Joomla channel.
That channel is a big part of why this site sounds like this site. The people in there was from all over the world and most of them was speaking broken English, because English is not their first language. And that is how they was asking Google and Bing and Yahoo too, in that same broken English. But the answers on the internet was all written in polished English so their questions did not match the answers and they could not find nothing. So they came to IRC and asked us and we answered them the way they talked. I wrote this site the same way on purpose. So if my grammar is not perfect, good, it is not supposed to be. I am writing it how people actually ask. And now people is asking AI the same way they used to ask us in that channel.
And there is another part to it most people never got. My writing on the page was like that and my metadata was a mix of both. The meta descriptions and the keywords, some of it I wrote in that same broken way people was asking it, and some of it proper grammar too, both of them in there together. So it matched how people typed it and it still had the proper words the search engines was looking for. Two different jobs but both in the metadata. That is why I built some of the plugins and modules I built back then, they showed you what was missing in your metadata, because everybody was forgetting that part and it matters.
Anyways. I went back to look at Gantry and the tracker had 577 issues sitting there open and it would not run on the PHP everybody is on now. So we fixed the stuff that was broke. And I decided we are not stopping at the broke stuff neither. We are fixing every one of them issues, every single one. Some of them is getting fixed on five and the rest of them is getting fixed on six. We shipped 5.6.6 and then 5.7.0 and it runs on PHP 8.4 now. But just fixing the old one was not enough for me.
It needed a Gantry 6. And it needed to be released with a API built in the core. I personally hate Zapier. In today's world things need APIs, that is just how it is. A site with no API is a site you can't do nothing with unless you sit there and click everything by hand.
There is no API for a wife or girlfriend tho. And us men don't have one either. Maybe if both did we could communicate better.
I can't fix humans not having a API but I can fix our sites to having one.
DrDigital
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Back in 2008 I started JoomlaMafia as DrDigital. The idea was simple: write the Joomla guides I wished somebody had written for me, and share the components and modules I was building along the way. Mafia Icons came out of this site. So did a lot of late nights.
The site went dark years ago and the domain got away from me. On October 30, 2026 I bought joomlamafia.com back, dug the archive out of the Wayback Machine, and rebuilt the whole thing on Joomla 6 with Gantry 5 on PHP 8.4, wearing the same black and red the site had in 2010.
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The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.17 [Wojmamni ama woobusani]. This is a priority release to correct two issues in version 1.5.16. Although there are no security issues fixed in this release, we consider it a security release because a security-related bug has been fixed and because many sites may be upgraded directly from 1.5.15 to 1.5.17.
The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
Release Notes
Check the Joomla 1.5.17 Post-Release FAQs to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.
If you have modified core template overrides, please be sure to back them up before upgrading.
Security
No security issues were fixed in this release. For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center.
Components
- No component issues were fixed for this release
Modules
- No moduleissues were fixed for this release.
Plugins
- No plugin issues were fixed for this release.
Legacy
- No legacy issues were fixed for this release.
Templates
- No Templates issues were fixed for this release.
Language
- Updated ru-RU installation language (20239)
- Added en-AU installation language (20220)
- Updated help sites list (20238)
Administrator
- No administrator issues were fixed for this release.
System
- Fixed problem logging in when Session Handler is set to None (20221)
- Fixed error message when running Joomla! in a PHP version prior to version 5.2 (20219)
- Reverted change to JFolder::makesafe method that introduced a bug (16506)
Statistics for the 1.5.17 release period:
- Joomla 1.5.17 contains:
- 6 issues fixed in SVN
- 6 commits
- Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 4 active issues:
- 10 new reports
- 0 closed
- 6 fixed in SVN
- At the time the 1.5.17 release was packaged, the tracker had 307 active issues:
- 171 open
- 105 confirmed
- 31 pending
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JoomlaMafia formerly used MyBlog to do all inhouse blogging... We are making changes and part of those changes is We have retired MyBlog at least for the site blogs, We will continue using MyBlog for JomSocial...
We are in the process still (got some new people helping out, our about page really needs updating)
We are installing JomSocial, Forum system, and making a dozen other changes...
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- Change your settings so that email from you has a name, your name, not a blank or some unusual characters, in the from field. (ask a geek or IT person for help if you don't know how).
- Change your settings so that the bottom of every email includes a signature (often called a sig) that includes your name and your organization.
- Change your settings so that when you reply to a note, the note you're replying to is included below what you write (this is called quoting).
- When you decide you want to email me and the other 10K people in your address book, use BCC! Blind Carbon Copy... This means that When I read my email, I am not going to see 99,999 other peoples email address's because number 5...
- Don't hit reply all. Just don't. Okay, you can... but someone that emailed those 10K people above all 10K people are going to get your reply!
- You can't recall an email you didn't mean to send. Some software makes you think you can, but you can't. Not reliably.
- Email lives forever, is easy to spread and can easily show up in discovery for a lawsuit.
- Please don't ask me to save a tree by not printing your email. It doesn't work, it just annoys the trees.
- Send yourself some email at a friend's computer. Read it. Are the fonts too big or too small? Does it look like a standard email? If it doesn't look like a standard, does this deviation help you or hurt you? Sometimes, fitting in makes sense, no?
And a bonus tip from Cory Doctorow, who gets more email than you and me combined: When you go on vacation, set up an autoreply that says, "I'm on vacation until x/x/2010. When I get back, I'm going to delete all the email that arrived while I was gone, so if this note is important, please send it to me again after that date."