Andrew Eddie, original project manager for the Mambo project who’s August 2005 Letter to the Community heralded the eventual beginnings of Joomla, has run through the latest ACL implementation of Joomla 1.6 at the Melbourne Joomla Users Group meeting ( February 16th, 2010 ).
Videos and a PDF of the slides from that presentaton are embedded. Take some time to review these and familiarize yourself with the new ACL ( Access Control List ) features of Joomla 1.6.
Those of us who use and/or support Joomla should benefit from the MJUG meeting.
MJUG Joomla 1.6 ACL Presentation by Andrew Eddie
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MJUG Joomla 1.6 ACL Presentation by Andrew Eddie
( Part 2 of 2 )
Joomla 1.6 Access Control List Slides
Joomla 1.6 Slide Presentation – Andrew Eddie – Core Developer – MJUG 2010-02-16
Joomla 1.6 Access Control List Articles
Andrew’s blog, the Art of Joomla, has a great article Introducing the New Permissions in Joomla 1.6. Worth a read.
Andrew Eddie is a co-founder of the Joomla Open Source project and is highly active in the version 1.6 development process. He currently operates a Joomla-based development and training consultancy New Life in IT, and produces high-quality commercial Joomla extensions through his sister company JXtended.
Joomla 1.6 Nightly Builds
If you are interested in pre-flighting the next release: download nightly builds of the upcoming Joomla 1.6 Beta from SVN at the Joomla Forge SVN
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