Articles about: Joomla

8th October 2019

PHP Joomla

There are times in Joomla where you want a bit of control over your content at the template override level – such as showing the first X characters of a string. PHP...

How to easily access to Custom Fields in Joomla

23rd July 2019

PHP Joomla

Over the past few years, I’ve had to get more and more involved in developing Joomla websites. Joomla is such a powerful, flexible and user-friendly CMS to work...

The strengths (and limits) of Joomla's overrides

2nd October 2018

PHP Joomla

I’ve developed a few sites using Joomla – this is one of them. And one of the best parts of Joomla are the layout overrides. Nothing irks me more than when...

Upcoming changes to Joomla 4's head include

21st September 2018

PHP Joomla

I do admit that I like to be in control of the markup of a site - I like to know what is being loaded, and why – and I like to have some say in what gets loaded...

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Still Alive

5th April 2020

Music

It's been a while since I've had the decks out... and a recent Beatport sale saw my library grow by over 70 tracks... so thought I'd record a new mix. Never...

Adding custom icons to your TinyMCE 5 Plugins

16th March 2020

TinyMCE

The TinyMCE 5 rich text editor launched in early 2019, and with it an improved interface to help developers build custom plugins. Firstly – read this to learn...

Exploring Tailwind CSS in Laravel

24th February 2020

Laravel Tailwind

I’ve been building things for the web since somewhere in the 90s, starting out with GeoCities, static HTML and CSS. Flash forward over 20 years, and the web is,...

“Hello, World!” in the real world

2nd February 2020

PHP Laravel

“Hello, World!” means something to most programmers – after all, it is most probably the very first thing you wrote code about. I know that my first year...

I am the Development Director (and co-owner) at Mity Digital, a Melbourne-based digital agency specialising in responsive web design, custom web development and graphic design.