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Responsive images should ideally serve the client images in sizes that fit the media, instead of serving 1000 pixel images to small handheld devices, which is both a waste of your time, bandwidth and data you may be paying for. There are no de facto standards for solving this part of the responsive web design puzzle just yet, but here are some suggestions I have collected to help you get started.
During the past week, both Ninjaboard, the forum component, and Anahita, the Social Engine has released their first stable versions. These are the first stable, major components based on the Nooku Framework to be released. This if course, is not counting Nooku Content, the translations component which spawned Nooku Framework, and Ohanah, which is an SaaS for event management.
Christopher Garvis wrote a nice tutorial on how to modify your row classes to handle 1:N table relationships. We try to link to as many Nooku tutorials here as possible, but this one slipped under our radar until now.
We are already familiar with Nooku Content, the site translation tool for Joomla. We have also become acquainted with Nooku Framework, a rapid application development framework for (so far) Joomla. We have published a series of Nooku tutorials available from this site that will show you more of the framework. Now, the Nooku gang has released another beast into the wild: Nooku Server.
Torkil has written another Nooku Framework tutorial. This time he has written about Nooku’s database table behaviors, what they are, how they work, how you can create your own and how they compare to similar functionality in in Joomla 1.6.
Christopher Garvis wrote a nice and short tutoral some days ago where he demonstrates how you can adapt a table class to work with database tables that do not conform to the Nooku table naming standard.
Our own Torkil Johnsen wrote a tutorial showing how much easier MVC is in Nooku compared to Joomla, especially highlighting the amount of code you don’t have to write. He also demonstrates how Nooku introduces HMVC to the Joomla world.
Israel Canasa (@raeldc) has started writing some nice articles about his exploration of the Nooku Framework. He starts out without much knowledge and documents his progress, and it’s looking good so far.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos (@nikosdion) wrote a really nice tutorial on the Nooku Framework wiki on how to do server side validation of your data. To do this he is using a command that is placed into the command chain, and that handles validation before saving and overrides redirects when the validation fails. The command class itself is just around 30 lines of code, but can be used by any Nooku component. It is also a really good example on how to use commands in Nooku Framework.
When converting a Joomla 1.0 site to 1.5 and activating SEF URLs, you may discover that the URLs suddenly have the menuname in them. For instance like this: http://example.com/about-us-mainmenu-12. This is because of changes to aliases in the migration process. A menu item titled “About us” might have had the alias “about-us” in Joomla 1.0, but in Joomla 1.5 it is given the alias “about-us-mainmenu-12″ after the migration, where 12 is the menu item’s ID, or Itemid. Here is a fix you can run on your database to correct all of this.
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