For many Joomla! webmasters and developers, updating is a painful and complex business. But with a good procedure and the help of some awesome extensions, it doesn't have to be. We have a certain procedure when updating our clients Joomla! websites, which makes sure that updating is quick, painless and without errors.

I want to share that procedure with you, in the hope it might be of any use to you and your clients.

An indev extension is an extension we are considering, planning or already developing. Our indev (in development) extensions give you the chance to influence the functionality and scope of our new extensions.

You love to give feedback? Great, we love to receive it!

The last two years we used the web based project management software 5PM at Chill Creations. We primarily developed extensions and websites for clients, and the extensions cciDEAL and ccNewsletter which where available for a broader audience.

In the last months we started focusing on (commercial) extension development for the Joomla! community and our project management needs have changed because of that. Read on to see what project management systems we considered, what our wishes where and what system we will begin to test.

Get ready people, we are preparing our blog and it will be online really soon. The goal of the blog will be to provide you with useful tips & tricks concerning Joomla! and general web development and our own extension updates. A sample of the first few articles being written now:

• Joomla! Newsletter tips part 1 & 2
• Virtuemart tips & tricks part 1
• Joomla! tips & tricks part 1
• ccNewsletter statistics: the bit.ly way
• cciDEAL 2.3.0 preview
• ccUsers 1.0.0 preview
• What do we use for our Joomla! blog?
• And more.... 

We have had a Dutch Joomla! Virtuemart iDEAL blog since 2008, and written informative articles for it, but now its time to open up to a larger (and international) audience. So welcome, we are really pleased to have you!

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