As many of you know Joomla 1.6 has officially launched. Most people will want to know what's new, how hard it is to upgrade, and if it's worth upgrading to. Our lead developer is actually part of the Joomla team (mentioned in the credits), so I figured he is a good authority to ask. Here's what he has to say:

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So, we had a bit of a crazy thing happen to us at work (Convurgency) this week. We have a very advanced website – Flash interface for people with full browsers, but then the very same content has a basic HTML rendering for mobile devices and search spiders.

We noticed some incredibly strange errors in how Google and Bing were indexing our site this week. Both went from seeing all the code and content to seeing nothing at all, a virtually blank page. (more…)

Well, if it isn't completely obvious – I haven't written a post on my blog in a very long time. Call it writer's cramp, call it being too busy, whatever, I guess I've just been too lazy!

Anyhow, it is my goal to get back to writing regularly. I'll be posting:

1. more coding tips
2. Internet Marketing tips
3. games to play
4. random stuff (like food, ok?)

So, without further delay, here's my first new programming tip. It's for Google Spreadsheets, the incredibly powerful online spreadsheet application. Not only is it extremely powerful, collaborative and free, it also allows you to make it even more powerful by using scripts. This is entirely based on JavaScript.

We needed a script that would change the font color in each row based on the value in the last column of the row. You could use this for grading, scoring, anything – it just gives you a quick way to visually differentiate which entries score higher/lower. So, here's the code to put into your Code Editor: (more…)