This extension finally brings a much needed feature to Joomla: painless updates. I happened to find it just as some clients were asking me know to update their sites :)

This set of extensions provides easy to use content versioning for Joomla!. The only problem I ran into was that the current release only works when you're logged into the backend. If you're trying to edit an article from the frontend, the window pops up prompting you to log into the backend. However, I was able to quickly recode this to work for the frontend as well.

This component is a huge timesaver. My only wish is that it would weed out the duplicates from the core translation file, for example: Yes, No, View, etc...

Hello jdswebservice,

If you upload the file to the /images/stories directory (default, can be changed), you simply go to the backend and publish your podcast along with any show notes and iTunes metadata you wish. It shounds like you're doing some sort of runaround.

As for uploading through the browser, this will be supported in the rewrite for Joomla 1.5. Currently, webhosts have varying file size limits on posts, frequently as low as 2MB which is not enough for most podcasts. Rather than frustrating users who may wait several minutes for an upload to take place, only to see it fail, I've decided to route everyone towards FTP for the time being. Joomla 1.5 will have FTP in browser support, so I will be able to leverage that when it becomes available later. My goal is indeed to provide a one-step process for publishing podcasts.