Joomla!Day 2011 Malaysia

Written by Shukri Monday, 27 June 2011 16:43

Tags: CMS | Creativity | Joomla! | Ryan | Tech

KLCC - June 25th, 2010. Joomla! Day 2011 was held at Microsoft Auditorium, Level 29 Tower 2 KLCC as one of the main sponsor event. It was such a memorable event which many speakers from different continents, such as America, Asia & Africa.

The keynote speaker for the day went to our very own Joomla! Open Source Matter President, Ryan Ozemik from the States. His energetic and joyful talks was really happening and did the crowds cheerful all the long.

He highlights the new direction of Joomla! with the launch of Joomla! 1.6 recently and new minor updates of Joomla! 1.7 in July 2011 and it will be a continuous minor upgrade and update in every six months subsequently.

He was very excited to share the new Framework Joomla! is moving forward by taking total different approach Joomla! did back then and will seek a new direction as a whole. He ensures it will be a very exciting journey for all Joomla! site-builders and developers alike even the end user as well.

Chris Rault, a Joomla! Developers and co-founder of Prothemer from South Africa, who is a Joomla! Components & Themplates developers also highlights how the  Joomla! 1.6 and future version would look like.

Our very own Joomla! Developer from Malaysia lead by Slash & Dot Sdn Bhd CEO, Azrul sharing his company extension for Joomla! which has been implemented throughout the world.

Fuqaha sharing his knowledge about Active Control List newly featured in Joomla! 1.6 and above. More flexible and manageable User permission control at the backend panel.

Our fellow developers Kartik from India sharing his company extension related to the mobile world where smartphones and tablet sare becoming more popular of choice in everydays human life where interaction takes place in every aspect of social life.

At the end of the session, I took the opportinity to have a photo with Ryan for his inspiring thoughts and motivation in order for me to propel and manuerve forward in this challenging biz world and at the same time not forgetting to contribute something both to the community and humankind.