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MU DOT MY PLT organises JoomlaDay Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 2016 for the second year

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This year JoomlaDay Malaysia 2016 was held on 13th August at Microsoft Malaysia, KLCC, Kuala Lumpur. This event brings together Joomla! enthusiasts, experts, educators, and influencers.

This year event attracted more than 200 participants from all over Malaysia. This event was sponsored by Joomshaper, MU DOT MY PLT, Microsoft, Astiotech and OpenSourceMatters.

This event was fully managed by MU DOT MY PLT.

This year speakers featured Tessa Mero, Sam Suresh, Sanjay Willie and Dinesh Nair and other local speakers.

Topics covered including Joomla! And Mobile Apps for Joomla Development, Security and Performance Monitoring of Joomla, Learning APIs, Cloud and The Hidden Secrets of Joomla by Sam Suresh.

joomla day malaysia 2016

WordPress Meetup Kuala Lumpur 2016

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WordPress Meetup Kuala Lumpur is the first ever meetup organised by WordPress in Malaysia. The meetup will be held in Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLCC) on May 2016.

WordPress is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world for creating website. WordPress is capable to build any kind of website, from a simple blog to full-featured business website and you can also develop an online store using WordPress pre-installed features Woocommerce Plugin.

WordPress is a very powerful CMS that is easy to use, and you do not need any coding or design skill to create aprofessional looking site. With WordPress it’s easy to build your website without writing a single line of code or knowing anything about HTML.

The meetup is open to the public who have an interest in WordPress or anyone wishes to learn about WordPress. During the meetup, we will discuss about WordPress, Plan the yearly calendar and upcoming events.

Agenda:-

 
  • KL WordPress Introduction
  • WordPress Fast Track Training
  • WordPress Custom Post Types
  • Upcoming WordPress events and Wordcamp plan
  • Calling for new host

And of course grab some WordPress swags!!

Provider Based Evaluation (PROBE) 2016

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                                                        PROBE  2016!

PROBE (Provider Based Evaluation) or before this known as MGPWA has been released for 2016!

There are two categories that must be fulfilled in order to achieve the standard set by PROBE 2016 :-

  • Mandatory Category: Any government agency which does not meet these criteria will be downgraded to 3 Star or below rating website (The valuation will be done by MDEC)
  • Non-Mandatory Category: Refers to the use of GOS to generate opportunities via greater people participation. The marks will be deducted if the Agencies do not fulfill the Non-mandatory criteria.

There are 2 New requirements in PROBE 2016

  • Mobile Web Application – Website must utilise responsive mobile web design
  • Active Hyperlink – All hyperlinks on the the website must be active

Click Here to Download Probe 2016 Documents 

JET AWARD 2016 & JandBeyond 2016 (JAB 2016)

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Our Trainer, Sam has been selected to receive JET Award from Joomla! to attend the JandBeyond International Conference (JAB 2016) on 20 – 22 May 2016 at Barcelona, Spain. He is the first community member in Malaysia and the only member in Asia to received JET Award this year.

Sam is selected due to his contributions towards Joomla! community. Besides, there are 8 community members from all over the world were also selected to attend the program. They are from Uganda, Ukraine, Italy, Portugal, USA, Brazil, Argentina and Kenya.

All selected members will receive sponsorship in the forms of airlines ticket, travel and accommodation as per agreed with the organizer.

Sam served as Joomla! community member since 2009 and on 2014 he became the team leader for Joomla! Certification Platform Program.

JET Program is one of the initiatives that was created to support the volunteers and all active community member which contributed their energy and time to improve Joomla!

Achieve More with Joomla! 3.5

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Joomla! 3.5 released! Update your website to Joomla! latest version with new great features. DO MORE with Joomla! 3.5!

Do more with PHP 7 Support

PHP 7, released in November 2015, will provide a significant performance boost to your website. Many web hosts already provide this as an option in your hosting account and it is highly recommended that you enable it.

Quoting the PHP 7 release note on Zend, “ This is the most important change for PHP since the release of PHP 5 in 2004. … You can expect to see up to 2x faster performance and 50% better memory consumption than PHP 5.6, allowing you to serve more concurrent users without adding any hardware”.

Adding support for PHP 7 has caused a minor backward compatibility break but no major impact is expected from this. You can read more about this change here.

Do more with Update Notifications via Email

Keeping Joomla! up to date is essential to maintain security and stability. Now your Joomla! website will check for the availability of new Joomla! versions and when one is found it will send the Super Users on the site an email notification.

Do more with System Information Export

 

When you need support you will often be asked to provide your full system information. Now all the required information is just one click away and free of any sensitive information.

Do more with Drag and Drop Images

Adding an image is now as easy as dragging and dropping it from your computer directly into the content. This works anywhere that you are using the default TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor.

Do more with Anonymised System Data

 

In order to better understand our install base and end user environments, this plugin has been created to send some stats back to a Joomla! controlled central server. The plugin will anonymously collect only the PHP, Database Type and Version and Joomla! Version a site is running. No identifying data is captured at any point and you can see exactly what information is being sent in the plugin configuration. This will help us to make more informed decisions about which platforms we need to support, minimum version requirements, the pace at which we can encourage people to upgrade, etc.

The privacy of all Joomla! users is important to us and we want to allay any fears that we are collecting personally identifying information. The source code for both the plugin and the server code that gathers the data can be seen in our GitHub repositorieshttps://github.com/joomla-extensions/jstats-serverandhttps://github.com/joomla-extensions/jstats-plugin. Only statistical results extracted from the data will be published on the developer.joomla.org website.

 

Do more with Easily Insert Modules in Articles

If you want to add a module into an article, Joomla! 3.5 makes it really easy with a button directly on the editor toolbar. You don’t need to learn any syntax or remember the module details as the user interface does it for you.

And even Do More…

Easier Customisation of Protostar Template

 

Now you can safely customise the Protostar template styling using your own user.css file. Any changes made to this file will not be overwritten on an update so you don’t have to worry about losing your changes.

Editor Buttons Now Added to the Toolbar

You no longer need to scroll down the page to find the “readmore” or “insert image” buttons. Editor extension buttons that used to be placed below the text area can now be found in the toolbar where they belong.

Content Status Reports

The Category Manager now displays the number of published, unpublished and trashed articles in every category. This will make managing the structure of your site easier and help to find unused categories etc.

 

More awesomeness with the 3.x series…

 

Please update your Joomla! to the latest 3.5 version for maximum used and efficiency, for more information on Joomla 3.5 please visit https://www.joomla.org/3

New Accreditation Bing Ads Certified Professional Company

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Just a few days ago, our trainer, Sam has successfully completed Bing Ads Professional program and exam, MU DOT MY PLT is now Bing Ads certified company. As a Bing Ads certified company, we can enhance our new knowledge and digital advertising skills in Bing Ads along with other networks such as Google Adwords.

MU DOT MY PROFILE ON MICROSOFT

We always strive our best to ensure our trainers achieve good competency level and new certifications. Certifications ensure minimal qualification achievement in the subject matter.

Currently, MU DOT MY PLT offers the following certification programmes;

  1. Joomla! Certified Administrator
  2. Google Adwords Certified Professional
  3. Google Analytics Certified Professional
  4. Microsoft Bing Ads Certified Professional

If you interested to be a certified professional, talk to us now!

Joomla! User- Federal level CMS in 2016

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Ministry of communications and multimedia malaysia

http://www.kkmm.gov.my/index.php?lang=ms

Ministry of federal territories

https://residensiwilayah.kwp.gov.my/index.php/en/

Malaysian anti-corruption commisions

http://www.sprm.gov.my//

Ministry of human resources

http://www.mohr.gov.my/index.php/en/

Ministry of defence

http://www.mod.gov.my/

 

Ministry of tourism and culture

http://www.motac.gov.my/

Ministry of youth & sports

http://www.kbs.gov.my/

Ministry of finance Malaysia

http://www.treasury.gov.my/index.php?lang=ms

Ministry of  house affairs

http://www.moha.gov.my/index.php/ms/

Joomla! 3.4.8 Released

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Joomla! 3.4.8 is now available. This is a bug fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla. Joomla 3.4.8 fixes some issues found in the 3.4.7 release on Monday to do with browser sessions. All reported bugs from the 3.4.7 update have been fixed in this release:

What’s in 3.4.8

Joomla 3.4.8 fixes some issues found in the 3.4.7 release on Monday to do with browser sessions. All reported bugs from the 3.4.7 update have been fixed in this release:

For known issues with the 3.4.8 release, see the Version 3.4.8 FAQ in the documentation site. Please note that it is expected that you will be logged out as soon as the update is complete.

The Production Leadership Team’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. Learn more about Joomla development at the Joomla Developer Network.

Download

New Installations:

Download Joomla 3.4.8
English (UK), 3.4.8 Full PackageNew installation instructions and technical requirements

Upgrade Packages:

Upgrade Packages
Joomla 3 upgrade packages

Note: Please read the update instructions before updating.

Please remember to clear your browser’s cache after upgrading.

Update Joomla 3.4.7 (High Risk Security) & patches for Joomla 1.5, 2.5

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Joomla! 3.4.7 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses a critical security vulnerability and one low level security vulnerabilities. We strongly recommend that you update your sites immediately.

This release only contains the security fixes; no other changes have been made compared to the Joomla 3.4.6 release.

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A look back at 2015 and Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday and Happy New Year!

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Our office will be closed for year end holidays starting from 24th Dec 2015 till 3rd Jan 2016. Our operation will resume normally on 4th Jan 2016 onwards respectively. As 2015 draws to a close, we review a representative selection of achievements and visual reflections on the year at MU DOT MY PLT.

Dec 2015

MAMPU adopts Joomla CMS through MU DOT MY PLT

MU DOT MY PLT appointed to coach and co develop MAMPU’s official website (Malaysian Government Modenization Department under Prime Ministers Department).

More and more people trained! More than 30 sessions conducted and more than 200 people trained in Web, Mobile and Open Source Technologies in 2015!

Contribution

  • We contributed to the Joomla World Conference (JWC 2015)
  • Joomla Certification Project
  • JoomlaDay Malaysia 2015
  • Joomla Bahasa Melayu language pack and Komuniti Joomla Malaysia (www.joomla.org.my).

Oct 2015

MU DOT MY PLT participated in Joomla World Conference 2015 @ Bangalore India

Presentation at JWC 2015

Our trainer co presented a session at JWC 2015 Bangalore India. Our Trainer Sam appointed as Joomla! Certification Platform Team Leader. After 2 years of volunteering, our trainer now leading the certification platform team (CPT) to develop the Joomla certification examination platform for the Joomla! project.

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Sarah Watz the President of Joomla! visits MU DOT MY PLT

Biggest Joomla! Day in Malaysia organized by MU DOT MY PLT

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPi_RlccdHc

July 2015

MU DOT MY @ Google

MU DOT MY PLT was invited by Google to attend mobile leadership training at Google Malaysia.

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May 2015

iMoot Moodle International Conference 2015

Our Speaker Sam presented at iMoot 2015: Customizing Mobile Apps for Moodle Learning Management System

Mar 2015

Our local community online business training outcome was presented to Chief Minister of Negeri Sembilan!

Google Analytics and Adwords

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Feb 2015

Release of Joomla Modules

We released 2 accessibility modules for Joomla

  1. MU High Contrast
  2. MU Text to Speech

Jan 2015

MU DOT MY rebranded as MU DOT MY PLT . After 6 year MU DOT MY become a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) and started business as MU DOT MY PLT.

We would like to wish you every happiness this Holiday Season and throughout the coming year! May your New Year be filled with Peace, Love, and Harmony!

Interested In Customizing The Moodle Mobile App?

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Sam Suresh, the CEO and Moodle Trainer at the Multimedia and Open Source Learning Centre in Malaysia, gave a presentation on how to customize the Moodle App – specifically for Branding and URL – at the iMoot 2015.

While customizing anything IT related takes a mixture of skill, passion and patience, Sam provides a good overview of entry-level practices that include:

  • An overview of the Moodle Mobile source code
  • An introduction to Github (the source code repository for open source apps) on how to log in, find the Moodle Mobile app, download and fork for your use.
  • How to brand the Moodle Mobile app
  • An overview/into to PhoneGap (a 3rd party, open source app creation tool)
  • How to compile and submit your app to the PlayStore (from Google) for release

Importantly, you won’t be changing the functionality of the Moodle Mobile app in this exercise, just the branding elements (graphics, name, etc.) and the URL.

Check out his entire presentation below:

 

Clearly, this process is not for Moodlers who are focused on delivering content as instructors, and providing the best learning experience for students (unless, like us, you lean towards uber-geek). Rather, this presentation is for those of us who like to dabble, or who have a real need for branding the Mobile app for your school or institution.

One very interesting part (for me) in the presentation is just looking over the Moodle Mobile development map as presented by Sam. It is always a good idea to have a sense of what is in store for the future:

Have you customized your Moodle App? Tell us your experience with this in the comments below!

References:

http://www.moodlenews.com/2015/presentation-interested-in-customizing-the-moodle-mobile-app/

Security issue update in Joomla version 3.4.4 and older!

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Security issue update in Joomla version 3.4.4 and older!
Immediate action needed!

Joomla version 3.2 until 3.4.4 was exposed to dangerous security issues trough SQl Injection that can leads to hacked Joomla Website.

Joomla project has released new patch update version 3.4.5 that resolved 3 main issues:

 

Main Security Issues

High Priority – Core – SQL Injection (affecting Joomla 3.2 through 3.4.4) More information »

Medium Priority – Core – ACL Violations (affecting Joomla 3.2 through 3.4.4) More information »
Medium Priority – Core – ACL Violations (affecting Joomla 3.0 through 3.4.4) More information »

Several International news have reported, hackers are aiming for outdated Joomla websites.

to prevent your website from hacked, please update to the latest Joomla version 3.4.5

First security news announcement:

https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5633-important-security-announcement-pre-release.html

Joomla 3.4.5 update announcement:

https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5634-joomla-3-4-5-released.html

Update can be done automatically from backend:

https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Updating_from_an_existing_version

Other related announcement:

https://threatpost.com/attackers-targeting-unpatched-joomla-sites-through-sql-injection-vulnerability/115179/

http://www.cio.com/article/2997723/web-development/webmasters-have-only-hours-to-deploy-patches-joomla-incident-shows.html

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2432358/joomla-cms-exploit-attacks-begin-again-only-four-hours-after-patch

 

Joomla 3.4.5 is more stable and safe. Every user using older Joomla version need to update into latest Joomla 3.4.5 immediately. Please forward this article to other Joomla users.

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