Being so active within the Joomla Development Community and recently talking so much about the benefits of social networking recently I was thinking about all of the resources that I knew about that most other people using Joomla probably never knew existed. I thought I would share some of these valuable resources here with you.

For those that have a Twitter account and want to follow primarily Joomla related tweets here are a few links that you WON'T want to miss. You can follow everyone on these lists in one easy click.

Main list of Joomla Experts
http://tweepml.org/Joomla/

Some of the best Joomla Extension Developers
http://tweepml.org/Best-Joomla-Extensions-Developers/

http://tweepml.org/joomlaextensions/

Some of the best Joomla Template Developers
http://tweepml.org/joomlatemplates/

There are also 2 additional and might I add, very complete lists of RSS feeds from everything Joomla that you can imagine. 

http://start.joomlaworks.gr/

http://joomla.alltop.com/

Although this is a short list of resources in this blog post if you click on these links you will find that these links will provide you with an extreme amount of very valuable information right at your fingertips.

I suggest that you bookmark these links as they are constantly being updated and added to.

Enjoy!

Is anybody else annoyed at the frequency of these security updates, especially for us manual laborers it's a little much yes?

and for those who use template overrides another issue to deal with re security updates:

http://brian.teeman.net/joomla-gps/automatic-joomla-updates.html

This is a time and cost issue for small biz using Joomla and frankly in my opinion is bordering on painindabutt territory -

I know upgrading a cms is not as easy updating say an ftp program but, automating joomla security updates as much possible and/or getting updates down to say 6 a year, I think is going to be important cost and time issue going forward.

Oh, and now all my sites' backups are technically not up to date. I'm about to dig in to Joomlapack native tools which purportedly will automate and solve this issue, link below, but the good folks at Joomla need get a handle on the variety of consequences joomla security updates have on us humps out hustling da joomlaz on the street. 

 http://joomlapack.net/news/releases/native-tools-2009-3.html

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