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Pact has recently released a new book – Joomla! 1.6 First Look – This is an in-depth guide about all the new features in the latest Joomla 1.6! The book contains plenty of screen shots and detailed explanations about the new features in the latest version of Joomla 1.6 and how to use them. It also covers all the changes made in the latest version including the menus, extensions, templates and interface. Joomla is one of the most sought after content management system that has won plenty of awards and accolades. Written in PHP, it uses the MySQL database system to store all the information. It helps professional web developers build professional looking websites with powerful online applications. It is known for its ease-of-use and extensibility. The Joomla! 1.6 First Look edition gives its readers valuable insights into the various new features in the version 1.6. It also shows them what has changed, how these changes can affect them and how they can upgrade to 1.6. It get started by...

What with more and more users turning towards Joomla, it has become one of the most powerful and effective CMS platforms around. However, Joomla comes with its own set of limitations as well. The restriction of installing Joomla mainly on MySQL has posed as a major problem. So, in an attempt to add to its features, this award winning CMS started working on porting Joomla on to Oracle. Oracle is one of the most complex databases out there and has a huge amount of non-standards. Joomla then successfully ported the Joomla 1.5 version to Oracle. The next step was support the Joomla 1.6 version on to multiple databases from Oracle and SQLServer to PostgressSQL. An obvious question when supporting multiple databases is “How about ORM?” Object Relational Mapping is a kind of programming technique that converts data from incompatible systems into object-oriented programming languages. This creates a sort of virtual object database that is used in the programming language.