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Joopal (aka Drupla!) is a new CMS featuring the power of objects offered to you by Joomla! with the immense hook system delivered to you by Drupal.

Joopal is based on Joomla! 1.5 and features Drupal 6 the way PHP5 meant it to be done: with objects instead of globals and incredibly long function names. Joopal is compatible with the Drupal 6 functions and maintains all of those globals for backwards compatibility whilst providing a new object orientated approach to the functions you know and love.

Joopal permits you to use your traditional Drupal blocks anywhere a Joomla! module can do and also allows you to integrate Drupal's modules as if they were a normal Joomla! component.

"This talk will cover a number of high level topics including MVC (Model-View-Controller), Design Patterns, Structured Data, Core Methodologies, Revision Control and Specific Implementation Techniques. The session will be in a workshop format: attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop with an open connection to a Drupal or Joomla installation, as well as any specific questions about either system."

This workshop will be given by Forrest Mars and Scott Wolpow

Come and discuss search engine marketing with two of Joomla's most prominent SEM gurus.

Barrie and Steve will take audience questions and bounce ideas off each other on using SEM to build successful online businesses.

They review Joomla's pros and cons plus share their favorite online marketing tools.

This workshop will be given by Steve Burge & Barrie North

Things You Won't Find in a Manual

Joomla! is a powerful and open system just waiting for you to customize it to your liking, but the documentation will only take you so far. In this session, to help you get the most out of Joomal! you will learn some of the hidden tips and tricks that you will never learn from the manual.

This workshop will be given by Cory Webb

Creating a new module for Joomla 1.5 is easier than you think!  If you can do a little coding, you can create a module.

Do you want to display a flash object in a module, but the Custom HTML module parses out the code?  Do you want to insert some javascript on certain pages for statistics tracking?  You can put this code into your custom module.

Part 1: Joomla Templates with Dreamweaver
Brian Diaz (with media 65):  A 30 to 45 minute example of making a Joomla Template with the Media 65 Joomla Template kit.

We will cover the basics of a Joomla template and the creation of a template from scratch with the Joomla Template Kit. If time is left we can also see a quick video of a Template conversion from a non Joomla Template to a Joomla Template.

Part 2: Theming Extensions
Victor Drover: "Theming extensions to give the illusion of an integrated web site"

This two part workshop will be given by Brian Diaz and Victor Drover

Mitch speaks about Kickapps, selected by BusinessWeek readers as Best of the Web 2008, KickApps provides brands, enterprises and web publishers with solutions that enable social, interactive, dynamic, distributed and data-informed web experiences. Read more...

Mitch explains how making extensions for our favorite CMS isn't as hard as everyone would like you to believe.

The Joomla CMS is a powerful solution to the problem of building a sophisticated website. But once you have your site built, what then? How can you ensure it becomes successful?

We have posted Barrie's presentation!...

We will explore Joomla! as a community-driven free and open source software project.

But what does that mean for users, developers and designers? What does "free as in freedom" mean for someone building a website or starting a business?

51% of the US citizens goes online with his/her mobile device on a weekly basis...
This says enough? Going mobile is gaining importance, and this is where this session will be about! How to go mobile with your existing Joomla installation, or design your Joomla site for mobile.