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It is possible to integrate Joomla with the premier open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) at many levels including shared login, contact information, and more. Since both use MySQL as their data source and both allow SOAP interface communication, there are many point of integration.

Mongo is very good at providing information on itself -- such as connections, counters for inserts, available connections, etc. There statistics are available through the admin database using the Mongo command line interface.

Beginning webmasters often overlook the meta keywords and meta descriptions that can be used for a Joomla website and every article on it. Failing to use these two key search engine optimization (SEO) features can hurt the page ranking and "findability" of a web site. This brief tutorial will show you where to enter these key fields and also how to use the Missing Metadata module to help you add metatags to all the articles on your Joomla site.

When programming a Joomla extension in PHP -- particulary when you need to create a display module -- you often need to get information about about the document being displayed. By instantiating the document object, you can get access to all of the information on everything from the metatags to the template name.

Joomla 1.6 features an editor toggle button!

You can now toggle between a rich text editor and plain text editing with the click of a button.This makes editing HTML and JavaScript code much more user friendly.

You can add the Facebook Like button to your Joomla site in under 5 minutes.

Follow these simple instructions and your Joomla site can become part of the Facebook social network. Adding a Like bottom will allow people to "like" your site, content on your site, and connect to the Facebook page that represents your web site.

If you want to make sure your site complies with accessibility standards, it is a good idea to check your site. You can check any site by going to the W3C Accessbility web site at http://www.w3accessibility.com/. Looking at the site there can help you make the necessary adjustments to your Joomla template.

The second edition of Beginning Joomla! is available. I've completely updated all of the code and examples to address the features of the newest version of Joomla! featuring:

• Updated extensions and web sites
• Streamlined code and CSS
• Expanded explanations of key topics including server administration
• Revised descriptions for recent changes to the administrator interface

Here is a link to the Amazon page for the book.

Version 1.1 of the open source tool I've written for Apache Web Server log analysis is now released! Log Scope can now process multiple log files and the processing loop has been optimized for 30% better performance. Log Scope is platform independent and only requires Python to be installed to run it (Python is installed by default on most Linux flavors and MacOSX).

Download Log Scope v1.1