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Moving Forward from LQM 2.0 Print E-mail

What a sigh of relief - LQM 2.0 is out. Development of its most notable feature, Multiple Query Execution, began in November of 2007 and took three months to fully implement. Of course other things drew my attention like the December holidays, moving the GMITC website to Joomla 1.5, implementing a new subscription system, and the like. In fact most of the difficulty in implementing the new features of 2.0 didn't involve code at all, but testing the changes on a variety of systems, writing the documentation, and tending the news articles, the support forum, and the e-mail correspondence that is required when producing a product. This release is important - LQM now offers all the features that DBQ did, as well as many that DBQ didn't! So three months later the new product is out and now it is time to think about future features.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 19 March 2008 04:39 )
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Getting Ready for LQM 1.1 Print E-mail
Well the code has been tested and the documentation updated - I'm just waiting for Joomla 1.5 RC4 to be released before I do some final testing and release LQM 1.1 .  There are two notable new features - an implementation of the editable grid and support for CSV output.  Both of these features are the result of client work that I have done over the past two months and I've incorporated these features back into LQM.  I'd like to thank both Mark and Don for working with me on these features.
 
Update to the GMITC Demo Site Print E-mail

Transitioning to the new Joomla 1.5 system hasn't been easy but I've made modest steps towards it, and now the GMITC Demo site is up and running.  The new site is running Joomla 1.5 Release Candidate 3 without legacy mode.  For those of you new to Joomla or to Joomla 1.5, Legacy Mode allows one to run extensions designed for Joomla 1.0 within 1.5, usually without too many problems.  All applications on the demo site are 1.5 native.

The primary purpose of the demo site is to demonstrate GMITC's flagship application, Logos Query Manager, or LQM.  Logos is a form and report generator similar to Database Query, an application that I started writing  in 2003 for Mambo.

This site is also running the new Joomla to Simple Machines Forum ( J2SMF ) Bridge component that allows either loose or tight integration between Joomla and the Simple Machines Forum.  At the moment tight integration is still under development and there is no need to register users with Joomla, so SMF is only loosely integrated.

The new template is also Joomla 1.5 native.  The header graphic has been updated as has been the style sheets.  The overall structure is similar to the current template and this is fine for a programmer like me – Keep It Simple Stupid.  

Eventually the demo site will become the main GMITC website after content has been completely updated, and I've had the chance to work with it for a while, searching for bugs.  Of course one of my interests is to find bugs in the core Joomla system so that they can be fixed before the next Joomla 1.5 release candidate.  My goal is to move aside GMITC's 1.0 site sometime after the release of J! 1.5 sometime, I hope, in November.
 
The New GMITC Demo Site Print E-mail
The new GMITC demo site is now up to demonstrate various Joomla extensions available from GMITC, especially the flagship product Logos Query Manager.  After one year of development and several pre-final releases, LQM has been updated to 1.0 Final and is now available for download.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:22 )