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I am new to Liferay , is there any good article available for Creating theme for Lifefay 5.2.
and also how to convert theme to *.war file
The liferay plugins SDK is a good environment for developing themes. The Liferay Wiki has some quick start information about how to use it, also about how to configure liferay to be able to edit the theme "in place". The documentation (especially the development documentation, even if it's for 5.1) has more in depth information.
There are Ant Scripts that come with the Plugins SDK that create the *.war file for you. They also do a good job separating your changes from the default theme of/in liferay (as your changes are stored in a "diff" folder, thus easily identifiable. When defaults change, you may need to adapt your changes, but you know exactly what parts you have changed.
I just posted a tutorial that explains how to create a Liferay theme. I was working with Liferay 6.0 at the time of writing, but the article should be good for people still using Liferay 5.2 as well.
Users of NetBeans may also want to look at this Netbeans.org article:
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/portal-pack-themes.html#giquj
You'll need to have downloaded and manually installed the appropriate modules for PortalPack (since I cannot post a second link in a single answer yet, you'll have to google "Portal Pack")
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I am just looking for some opinions on a preferable module to us efor Joomla. It must:
allow CMS users to edit fields etc.
store data in the database
not have excessive mark up
have easily editable themes.
I have used Breezing forms and some others, but they all seem a bit clunky and over kill for what is required.
I would like a fairly lightweight form module with easy customisation from a dev point of view.
You can use Fabrik extension. You can get it by go to this link
It's free and simple to use. Fabrik gives you the power to create forms and tables that run inside Joomla without requiring knowledge of MySQL and PHP. Then feed your data into Google Maps, Charts or an AJAX based calendar etc.It's my personal opinion, I have used this and found it interesting.
And others extension such as RSform ,Breezing forms, Red form etc. but these are commercial extension.
RSForm! Pro is the best form module.
http://www.rsjoomla.com/
RSForms Pro is a really good component for forms in Joomla. But it isn't really lightweight, it's fairly extensive. But still quite easy to use. ;)
I would recommend RSForms!
Well maintained
Easy to use and powerful
Theming engine
The price is low enough to avoid all the hassle "free" components can provide
Have a look at their website : http://www.rsjoomla.com/joomla-extensions/joomla-form.html
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I'm looking for a complete book for Joomla! 2.5 template design.
(I want to learn the best, the newest and the most standard way to code Joomla 2.5 template)
What do you suggest? (cost is not a problem!)
Thanks.
I'd start off with the free stuff. The Joomla wiki page here on creating a basic template. Personally I found this video made at a Joomla Conference pretty helpful. This tutorial whist for Joomla 1.5 very little template wise changed from 1.5 to 1.6-2.5 versions.
Also make sure you're happy with non-joomla css/html/php templates as that is what these are at the end of the day with some extra bits here and there.
Once you've done that have a look at some of the existing frameworks. Most are available for free. The yootheme warp master theme here, the Nooku framework, Gantry Framework whilst all customizable if you want to make your own template on a existing framework for the first couple of go's to get a feel for it. You can also learn a lot about how site development works from the way that other people have built their templates if you wish to work that way!
So far 0 pence spent and a pretty good idea of how Joomla templates work!! If you are desperate to spend dosh go for the offical Joomla Book on it here.
All you need is here:
http://www.amazon.com/Joomla-Templates-Press-Angie-Radtke/dp/0321827317/ref=pd_sim_b_7
Publication Date: August 1, 2012
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Sorry.i am new to joomla.Is there anyone who could tell me whether joomla is mvc framework or content management system?? I am confused.kind regards
Joomla is a content management system built using the MVC pattern. Joomla provide interfaces and APIs to let you extend it and build addons to add more feature to it. So some people define it as a framework too
The public facing presence is of Joomla! the CMS - architecturally though since version 1.6 it's been moving to Joomla! the CMS [GitHub] which sits on top of the Joomla! Platform [GitHub].
The idea is to leverage all the good in the framework for applications other than the original CMS functionality. So, you can create stand alone applications using the platform, they don't even have to be web applications. e.g. we have several small apps that are fired from cron to run background tasks that leverage the platform framework and the models etc of our larger Joomla components.
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I have recently been tasked with writing a fairly large (for 1 person) program and would like to know what is the best software to use to be able to manage this project. Something that I can list what needs to be done and check it off when it is done, something to keep me on track.
I'm a FogBugz user here. Does exactly what you're asking and if there's just going to be one user then you can use it for free.
Another option for the basic task scheduling/prioritization duties is SmartSheet - never clicked with me personally but a lot of people seem to like it. It's worth checking out as an alternative.
you can check out this one too, simple and easy to use http://checkvist.com/
If you find free and open source project management software, you can use Trac or Collabtive. We use both of them for project management activity.
Otherwise, if you have money and require professional service, why not try FogBugz or BaseCamp for free trial?
I would suggest Mylyn if you are into Eclipse. Trac is a great ticket/task tracking system.
We have used XPlanner it's neat and easy to use.
We use http://easyprojects.net/ and it works quite well.
If you are using visual studio there are some task list features built in I'm sure some other IDE's also have similar features. In the company I work for MS project is the defacto standard. I don't really see the value in it for a one person project. I use Todolist for personal Time management.
You might want to consider fossil.
It's a source code management system with built in ticket system and wiki.
It's trivial to get it working (just one binary file).
It's crossplatform.
It stores the whole repository into an SQLite database.
Open Atrium
BugZilla
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Can anyone suggest which of the Redmine or Tracd would be a better option for project management? Currently I am planning to deploy it on a one project setup but plan to use it across multiple projects in the fututre. Which of the two is easier to deploy? I use windows. Any other software which is web based and comes with its own web server?
Thanks...
If you plan to do multi-project management in the future, choose redmine. With trac you can have multi-project setups as well (having a separate environment for each project), but in the end it's a workaround. Redmine has builtin support for multi-project environments.
I previously used trac to manage my projects, but I switched to redmine. I didn't find any effective way of importing all my tickets and wiki pages. Redmine uses textile markup, but trac uses markdown, so I had a couple of troubles there.
Finally, I heard that redmine has some some issues on windows. I haven't tried running redmine on that platform so you'd better give it a try or google around.
We're using Redmine on a production server and till now we didn't have any problems. I have to say Redmine is really easy to use/maintain.
Working with redmine, ON WINDOWS, and without any problem... everything works as expected out of the box...
I'd recommend Redmine like the other posters as it is more complete than Trac. See also This question on SO.
TRAC doesn't have time management support, while redmine does. So I think that Redmine would be a better options for the project management.
Redmine allow you to annotate tickets with the estimated effort, the percent of completion and you can tell that an issue depends from another to be solved. Then you can create Gantt chart with Redmine.
For these reason in my company we are thinking to switch from TRAC to Redmine.
Both are simply to be deployed.