A monthly meeting of the Vancouver Joomla User Group. Admission free. All people interested in learning more about the Joomla! content management system, and helping others learn more, are welcome.

Agenda

• Introductions.
  
• Featured topic: Getting in touch with your Joomla's inner database, by Jim DeLaHunt.
  
• Q&A.
  
• Door prize drawing.
  
• Networking.
  

This is our last meetup for 2009. We will not be meeting in December.

Our featured topic: Getting in touch with your Joomla's inner database. Underneath every Joomla website, driving almost every component and module, is a MySQL database. Jim DeLaHunt will pull back the covers, letting you take a peek at this database, how the information is stored in there, and giving you suggestions on what kind of useful operations you can perform by direct access to the database. We will look at: browsing through Joomla user records, seeing how menus are stored, stepping through a component's content, exporting and converting data, and — most importantly — backup and restore of the database. Doing surgery on a database takes some technical skills. But this talk will also be accessible to the non-technical Joomla site operator, so that you can understand what the database does for you, why it matters, and what is possible by working directly on the database.

There will be plenty of time for a Q&A.

Jim DeLaHunt is a Vancouver, Canada-based software engineer and consultant in multilingual websites. He helps business reach culturally diverse markets through globalised technology products. He is an active contributor to the Joomla and Drupal ecosystems, and is a regular Unicode conference participant. He also writes, teaches, and develops software. Earlier, he worked 16 years in Silicon Valley for Adobe Systems. Jim is a licensed pilot, and has sings tenor with Opera Pro Cantanti and the Vancouver Bach Choir. You can contact Jim at http://jdlh.com/....

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