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The United Nations has gone live with its first Nooku powered site. They decided on using Nooku in January 2008 when they were looking for a professional multi-lingual solution to migrate their European portal to Joomla 1.5. "Before migrating more than 30.000 articles and translations into a new version of the entire site using Nooku, we decided to run a test case. We used Nooku for a campaign we have developed called 'Know Your Rights', for the 60th anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration." The site can be found at http://html.knowyourrights2008.org/ .

I know I’m kind of preaching to the converted here but I have been thinking about ideas to promote OSS, and our company’s services, here in the UK. And I’m particularly thinking about this with regards to our current economic climate, i.e. very dodgy. For most of the readership of this blog it will come as no surprise that Open Source is a bloody great way to avoid spending money on software. That’s a very simple argument and one that has merit. But clearly capital cost isn’t the only answer and replacing existing infrastructure with something new, even if it is free, can be costly in other ways. So are there other benefits and factors where Open Source Software solutions can be of distinct benefit in these rather troubled times?

I switched on our new website this morning. It has taken far longer than I anticipated, but these things always do don’t they?

Implementing 100% SEF URLs in Joomla! can be a little tricky so we've written a step-by-step guide that includes how to correctly configure your LAMP server. There are some differences in implementing SEF URLs in Joomla! 1.0.* and 1.5, principally the requirement for third-party plugins. We'll deal with the generic LAMP server configuration issues first and then deal with the [...]