Joomla Beat Podcast | Web Design, Development, Online Marketing, Social Media & Website Management

Jisse Reitsma joins me on the podcast episode this week to talk about his experiences as a Joomla and Magento developer as well as his self published book, Programming Joomla! Plugins!Jisse has been in the Joomla space since the very beginning days of Joomla 1.0 and has never left. He's been within the Joomla development community for almost 10 years!He explains how he discovered his niche in building a bridge between Magento and Joomla and then furthering his product and service range by authoring and publishing his very own printed book.

This week I have a chat with Peter Martin from the Community Leadership Team. Peter has been one of the longest running CLT members and has contributed a great deal of work to the Joomla project.This week I also cover a few interesting news topics with Martina and share with you all 5 awesome tips in regards to passwords, password management and ways to keep your websites secure with better passwords.

This week I have an interview with Chad Windnagle from Cohesive base in Florida, USA.He joins me on the podcast to talk a little bit about his history and how he got into the Joomla space via the High School version of the Google Summer of Code. He progressed and slowly learnt more and more about Joomla to become a a well versed Joomla developer that is passionate about bringing more students via the Google Summer of Code Project.

Roland Dalmulder from the Netherlands joins me on the podcast to talk about how he has grown his Joomla based business over the years to where it is now today. He is the owner of an extension called CSV Improved that allows shop owners to import mass amounts of data via CSV to their web shops.He has also improved the component to work with importing user data and much more.

Matt Thomas joins me on the podcast to talk about his experiences and how he is involved with the Production Leadership Team within Joomla.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep75-matt-thomas-plt_mixdown.mp3]}

Steve Cooper from PayPal joins Martina and I on this podcast episode to talk about all things about Internet of Things or #IoT.It's all about connecting websites, data and things together by the Internet to make life better.We have an interesting conversation about that as well as a few Joomla news topics, updates and what BrainTree has to offer developers and the Joomla community.http://joomlabe.at/ep74

This week we have a look at the top 10 new extensions found on the Joomla! Extension Directory for October 2014 selected by the Joomla Beat team.Both Martina and I have picked five each of our favourite extensions that we have found in the directory and reviewed them for you.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep73-top-10-extensions-october-2014_mixdown.mp3]}

This week we have the global Pizza, Bugs and Fun event being held virtually around the world on the 17th of October 2014.I also introduce my lovely new co-host for the podcast, Martina Kocian. Completely new to the Joomla community and I hope will bring some balance to the podcast from the perspective of a site user and newer user of the CMS.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep72-pbf_mixdown.mp3]}  

The Joomla World Conference is coming up just around the corner and this interview with Dianne Henning and Jon Neubauer will get you up to speed with all the details in regards to the conference and what to expect!{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep71-joomla-world-conference-2014_mixdown.mp3]}  

Lots of news updates in the Joomla industry this week.Duke Speer also joins me on the podcast to talk about the Joomla Developer's Conference and the upcoming Joomla Ignite sessions at the Joomla World Conference in Cancun, Mexico.I cover a few upcoming events, security issues that have been alerted around the web at the moment, structure change to Joomla itself, BETA testers wanted for the new Joomla Extension Directory, Pizza Bugs and Fun event. {pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep70-duke-speer-jdeccon-ignite-newsmp3.mp3]}  

Helvecio da Silva joins me on this podcast to talk about the Joomla Community in Brazil. He highlights the importance of having documentation and information available in many languages not only English. There are over 150 million people in Brazil and most of them speak and read Portuguese. Having information and documentation in Portuguese will help more and more users get exposure to Joomla and pick it up as their preferred CMS. I also highlight some stats in regards to languages spoken around the world and where English really is in regards to the spectrum of languages in the world.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep69-helvecio-de-silva_mixdown.mp3]} 

Chris Drake, long time security expert who has been coding back before I was born joins, me on the podcast to talk about the secure authentication option he has created called CryptoPhoto for Joomla.Chris talks all about his experience and stories that he has been exposed to over the years as a white hat hacker and business owner. The disaster stories and his own success stories. {pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep68-chris-drake_mixdown.mp3]}

Have you ever tried to make a multisite with Joomla? The idea of having one Joomla install but with multiple instances and domains sounds really interesting and a crazy idea to make happen. This week I interview Edwin from JMS2Win who has done just that since Joomla 1.5. He's made it possible to have multiple Joomla websites on one instance of code.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep67-edwin-jms2win_mixdown.mp3]}  

This week I chat with the Phil Locke from Joostrap. Phil owns a template shop called Joostrap which is a lovely integration of Boostrap and Joomla.Phil has also provided a nice little discount for the listeners of the podcast as well so please make sure you listen into the podcast to get the discount code.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep66-joostrap-phil-locke_mixdown.mp3]}  

This week I chat to the team at Savvy Panda all about Inbound Marketing. Luke and Gabe have been working with Joomla from the very early days and have grown their business from strength to strength and now do a huge amount of online marketing in the form on inbound marketing.The guys explain exactly what it is and how to go about it.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep65-inbound-marketing-savvy-panda_mixdown.mp3]}  

This week I have the pleasure of chatting with the creators of the directory component - turn content construction kit called SobiPro.Radek & Sigrid Suski, a husband and wife power team, created SobiPro out of their own needs and the user's needs of the extension. It grew over the years as a simple directory component into something quite a bit more complex and Radek and Sigrid share that journey and story with the Joomla Beat listeners.

This week I chat with Enes and Mine, the husband and wife couple from Turkey who started building Joomla sites for friends and customers and now run a template club in the Joomla! industry.

This week I have an interview with the great viking man himself, Ronni Christiansen from RedWeb.dk in Denmark.He joins me on the podcast to talk about his experience in Joomla and his company which is now one of, if not, the biggest Joomla base agency in the world building Joomla based solutions for clients in Scandinavia and around the world.

James Morrell joins me on the podcast to talk about an amazing content construction kit for Joomla called Seblod. Seblod allows you to create complex content structured data types on your website collecting and displaying all sorts of data and different applications.I can be as simple as extra information for an online publication, to specific registration information based on a user type such as a person posting a job on a jobs website compared to someone registering looking for a job.What ever the application Seblod is flexible enough to handle the situation and James tells us all about it. 

Another round up of the top 10 (actually 11 this month as someone miss counted when doing the research) new extensions for Joomla in April 2014.With so many extensions out there, I'll be looking at a few highlighted and useful plugins, modules and extensions that you may have missed.This month's 10 extensions include:Awesome Social Links SidebarNonstop SliderAdvanced Twitter Display WidgetAdvanced Twitter Followers WidgetBitcoin DonateMaps2Sucuri CloudProxy WAFLinkedin Group FeedContent to K2Charts for ZOOjBackend (an added bonus one!)