During the last years I bought several domains for further Mambo projects. Now, while all my Mambo friends moved over to the new Joomla! project, I realised that I probably will never use these Mambo domains any more. So I decided to offer them to the ones of you, still staying with Mambo. If you are interested in one or all domains, please contact me over at www.konze.de with a concrete offer. These domains are for sale:

• mambodaily.com
• mambodaily.de
• mamboday.com
• mambofaq.com
• mambofiles.com
• mamboforen.de
• mamboplanet.de
• mampire.com

Today we started Joomble.com, a weblinks directory for pages related to Joomla! and websites based on it. Similar to what Mamble.com was for Mambo, we decided to build up a directory for the uprising Joomla! CMS. At the moment more than 30 different categories are available for user submitted links. Besides the common features like user voting or user reviews, we addded a feature, which displays the Google pagerank of a weblink.

We are now waiting for users submitting their Joomla! websites to the directory and help us all to get a valueable link resource for the community. To get listed a websites needs to be either build up with Joomla! or hast to contain informations about the CMS. The new website can be found here:

• www.joomble.com

Mambo has changed it's name to Joomla! today.  After the develpers of the award wining content management system Mambo has left the rights holder of Mambo, the australian company Miro, they established a new website and will release the first version of Joomla!, which will be version 1.0.0, soon. Project leader Andrew Eddie:

As you might know Mamboportal.com is one of the larger Mambo based community websites. During the last month more and more users registered at our website. Since today we had more than 100,000 registered users. Although we are very proud of the many users, this also made the website nearly impossible to administrate anymore.

Why? Mambo's user management is very simple and has not changed much since the early days. For example Mambo uses a drop down menu in the content items to select the creator of an article. While this works fine for websites, which do not have many registered users, it also is a pain when you have many users. I gues you can imagine how long it takes to load a page with a 100,000 entrys drop down menu.

Another even larger problem is the user manager. With many entrys Mambo produces a tremendous load on the mysql server. This lead to regular crashes of the whole mysql server and downtimes of Mamboportal.com. I already talked about this problems to Andrew Eddie last year and also submited it to the Bug Tracker about a month ago as we started to build up the new team for Mamboportal.com (Infos at http://mamboforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=6590&group_id=5&atid=101). Sadly the bug isnt even assigned to anyone at the moment.

However as I want to move forward with Mamboportal.com and the new team I decided to clear the whole userdatabase today. Every of the 100,000 registered users will be informed about that via Email the next days.

The large forum community Mambers.com has officially opened up a new greek section today. Currently 8 different forums are available where greek speaking users can discuss about Mambo in their language. The new greek forums are a cooperation between Mambers.com and the greek community website Mambo.gr. The moderation has been taken over by their webmaster Macman.

Mambers.com currently offers forums for 10 different languages including the largest german and the largest italian community. The forum currently contains 125,000 Mambo related posting and is hit by about 25,000 visitors every day. Here are the related links:

• Greek forums @ Mambers.com
• Mambo.gr

A new foreign language support website for Mambo opened up it's doors recently. Mambo.org.mx will deliver news, tutorials and help for the mexican community. Webmaster Jason Hdez especially wants to help Mambo beginners, but also promises to release interesting articles for experienced users in the spanish language. You can find the new mexican community over at:

• www.mambo.org.mx

Today I have switched Mamboportal.com to the new design and structure. The whole navigation now can be found in a new menu on the top. I created the design, which is called AkoBlue News, this week and tried to make it look a little bit more modern. I also changed the structure of the website a little bit. In case you have any problems, please drop me a small note.

Carlos Camacho, editor in chief at iDevApps, has written a nice tutorial how to install a web development platform on Mac OS X using MAMP and Mambo. The tutorial has been especially written for beginners and explains everything in eight simple steps.Carlos:

"As most of you know, Mac OS X comes with Apache and many other open-source projects to allow you to serve and publish websites. If however, some of this technology is over your head, or you're looking for a simple 'click-and-play' solution to jump right into web development, a newly posted tutorial at iDevApps.com might be just the thing. The tutorialexplains how to use MAMP to install a working Mambo CMS on Mac OS X -- as easy as 1, 2, 3."

You can find the tutorial over at iDevApps:

• http://www.idevapps.com/forum/showthread.php?p=837

After Mamboportal.com has passed some heavy waters in the last month, I am very glad that it is still up and running. I am currently restructuring the website a little bit to make it operational again. As a part of this reorganisation I will set in 2-3 coadmins this week. With them we would like to build up a team of authors, which write news and articles for Mamboportal.com.

We are currently looking for people who would like to join into this team. I have setup a new forum over at Mambers.com for volunteers. So if you want to join in the Mamboportal.com Team, please leave us a small note in that forum. You can find it over here:

• Mamboportal Team Forum

On Saturday, 28th of May 2005 the Mamboday 2005 was held in Bonn, Germany. What began as a vision of a few people from the german Mambers.com subforums a year ago finally became reality this weekend. About 200 visitors followed the interesting lectures and workshops in three luckily well climated conference rooms. I was one of the speakers there and made a workshop about component development. This is my report from the largest Mambo event in the world.