I am pleased to present ddate for Joomla! Now you too can have the Discordian date displayed on your Joomla! website! This module allows for custom class suffix and custom output format, and mimics the Linux 'ddate' utility as close as possible (without the SubGenius options - sorry Bob).

jcloud is a tiny little tag cloud module I wrote for Joomla! 1.5. Not very many features, but just what I needed - a tag cloud created from keyword metadata.

• configurable tag count
• max font size
• filter single-tag articles

Sometimes, the default Joomla! layouts for components just don't fit with the design of the template. Fortunately, Joomla! allows for custom component templates, without the need to hack core files. As an example, let's create a custom template for com_search.

After downloading, extracting and installing Joomla! dozens of times, I figured there's probably an easier way than what I was doing - create a database in cpanel, log in through ssh, wget the latest package, extract it to the web root, and start installing. While the script isn't yet complete (and won't be mine to publish), here's a handy command line for getting the latest version of Joomla! 1.5 without having to go their site to figure out which version is the latest: