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[Stephen Britton]

If you have 25 minutes to spare, you have to check out Brian Teeman's
Joomla 3.2 presentation that he gave last month at Joomla Day Switzerland.

It is excellent and it looks like Joomla 3.2 is going to be a huge upgrade,
unlike the jump to Joomla 3.1 from 3.0, which was mostly bug fixes and some
security upgrades.

http://vimeo.com/76115552

SPOILER ALERT - If you want to watch the video and be surprised, stop
reading NOW and watch the video. But if you can't wait, here are some
highlights.

Brian goes over a lot of additions and improvements, among them are:

* Security Keys. When you log into the admin panel there will be a third
text box to insert a key (It's optional.)

* Removing the left column in the articles and categories pages (Yippie!)
They are going to use Smart Search and a new filter system.

* Upgrading the jQuery, Bootstrap and icon libraries that ship with Joomla.
(I am assuming that there will be an option to continue using the Bootstrap
2 library because Bootstrap 3 is completely different from 2.)

* Improved and expanded template manager functions. You will now be able to
edit all the template files through the backend, not just the index.php and
CSS files. You will also able to create files in the template manager.

* Joomla 3 will likely ship with a built-in app builder IDE for developers
to rapidly build Joomla apps.

* Speaking of apps, Joomla 3.2 will have a built-in App Store, just like
the iPhone.

* And much, much more.

I have find time to watch the video a second time. This is a major upgrade
(they could probably call it Joomla 4.0) and the 3.2 beta is supposed to be
released later this month so we will have a chance to check it out very
soon.

ALSO, don't forget to sign up for JoomlaCamp NYC on Oct. 27th at the Hive
at 55 on 55 Broad Street. Visit the Joomla NYC site for more details
http://www.joomlanyc.org/

Please attend JoomlaCamp NYC - Let's get Joomla NYC rockin' again.

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy Columbus Day weekend!

- - - Steve

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Stephen Britton
Technology Consultant
sbritton at gmail.com
Twitter: @StephenBritton
ph: 914-661-0040

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -
George Bernard Shaw
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