The new Joomla Hotel Guide extension is a great step forward to the existing travel agency components.  By having the ability to list and manage hotels with the Hotel Guide component is a “no brain-er.” If your looking to build a hotel review site, create a directory, or promote tourism within your town or city, this is a great option for you. The Hotel Guide extension is loaded with many advantageous features that are sure to benefit its end user.

Recently, we had a new client come to us with a peculiar issue occurring within their Joomla based web site. What was happening was, each time this client published a set of articles to their site, their CPU spike to 100% causing the web site to crash. Knowing that this is a particularly large web site with a high volume of traffic and thousands of content articles, it was assumed that there was a problem with their server. They brought on a number of consultants who tried many valid solutions but to no avail. Understanding the urgency of this matter, we deployed our most experienced partner, Tom Eagan on the project, in order to get to the bottom of it.

Unlike most CRM systems, I commend SugarCRM for offering an Open Source free version of their software. In the spirit of Open Source, SugarCRM has released its Community version of its software which allows businesses to utilize a scaled-down version of their software for free. With our economic climate in such a difficult state, small and large businesses alike need to find ways to cut cost without sacrificing efficient practices. Enter Open Source. Open Source software technically means that the source code is available to the public, but generally it also means that you can implement it for little or no cost.

While browsing around Joomla.org the other day, I came across one of the most interesting blog posts I have seen lately. In this post, the author Ankit Ahuja speaks about his Summer of Code project in which he fine-tunes a feature that will have both Joomla! developers and clients alike scrambling for the Extensions Directory when it comes out. Front-end editing has finally arrived for the Joomla! CMS.