Celebrate with us as Packt Turns 5

Five years ago, Packt published its first book, Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management. In the years that followed, Packt has published over 200 books on many different subjects and technologies.

We think it's important to take the time to celebrate and thank the people who have made this possible. Therefore as our way of saying thank you for your support over the last five years, we have decided that over the next few weeks, Packt will be offering new and existing customers' five exclusive offers.

Building Websites with e107 is one of the eBooks that we are offering to our readers. This book guides users to customize and extend their e107 site with new templates and the CMS plug-in.

To download a free PDF copy of this book, simply visit Packtpub.com/account and login to your account, or create one if you don’t already have one, and scroll down to your download area. Here you will see a link to the eBook, which you can download as many times as you like. In addition to this book, you can also download other eBooks on various technologies for free.

You can find more information on this offer by visiting http://www.packtpub.com/article/celebrate-with-us-as-packt-turns-5

e107 has been entered in the SourceForge Community Choice Awards 'Best Project' category. Likely to be a tough category, so if you would like to nominate e107 you can do so at http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=e107&project_url=http://e107.org/. Deadline for nominations is May 29th 2009, so hurry on over.

Thanks to all who nominate us.

The e107 Developer Blog site is now open, more information in the About page.

If you're not familiar with LinkedIn, it is a professionals network where you can control your professional identity online, find people and knowledge, and exchange information, ideas and opportunities.

Go to the e107 Professionals Group

It will primarily be used to keep LinkedIn members up to date with the latest developments and releases.
Further it can expand the professionals network of e107 users.

You can join the group if you're already a member on LinkedIn, else you will first need to register.

SecretR
A while back, we added SecretR on as a new developer and were remiss in announcing this. He has been working non-stop on 0.8. He has been concentrating much of his efforts on the js engine, theming, and the admin area.

bugrain
If you don't know bugrain, then you don't know much about e107 He's been around forever and we probably should have made him a developer long ago. Well, better late than never! His first order of business is to plugin-ize the downloads. This is not a small task, we wish him luck!

Please help me welcome them both aboard, and I apologize for being late on announcing SecretR

Hey !
English :
e107 devs and the Support Team would like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and a very happy New Year. Also We hope that everybody has a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Happy Christmas in other languages :
Arabic :

(Ajmel altehani bemonasebt almīlad wa helol alseneh aljedīdah)

Persian :

(Sale noe miladi bar tamami marodme jahan mobarak! )

Italian : Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo
Russian: С Рождеством Христовым и С наступающим Новым Годом
French: Joyeux Noël et bonne année
Dutch: Prettige kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Bulgarian: Честита Коледа! (Čestita Koleda!)
Albanian : Gëzuar Krishtlindjet e Vitin e Ri
Finnish : Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta
German : Frohes Fest und guten Rutsch [ins neue Jahr]
Hindi : नये साल की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें (Naye sāl kī hārdik śubhkāmnayeṅ)
Urdu : Sale No Mobarak


Hamid .

[Submitted by  Hamid ]