Joomla!, for the second time running, has been nominated as a finalist for the 2007 PacktPub Open Source CMS Awards.

Our project has successfully made it to the final five of in two categories of the prestigious PacktPub open source CMS (content management systems) awards.  This year Joomla! is nominated in the Overall Winner and Best PHP Open Source CMS.  We were fortunate enough to win the top prize last year.

Vote for Joomla! as OVERALL WINNER here.

Vote for Joomla! as BEST PHP OPEN SOURCE CMS here.

Since Joomla! won last year we've seen some huge advancements in our framework, with Beta and Release Candidate versions of our re-factored Joomla! 1.5.  Joomla! can claim to have on of the largest user bases in the CMS world, with millions of installations on sites ranging from the United Nations, to Porsche to zillions of hobby sites.  The flexibility and ease-of-use is what makes Joomla! so appealing to users.  With 1.5 stable on the horizon, the future is looking even stronger for Joomla!

See what some independent UK technologists think about Joomla! 1.5.

Once again, thanks to PacktPub for creating a buzz and investing in the open source community as a whole.  All projects benefit from Packt's interest and support.

Collecting coins is all about owning a piece of history, and learning each of the various types of coins out there, entices you to learn about the history associated with that coin.

Collecting coins has been a hobby ever since coins were minted.and is a lot of fun and very easy to begin doing on your own.

Most bookstores sell specially designed books just for the purpose of collecting coins by year. People have been collecting coins from time immemorial, collecting, sorting, organizing and auditing coins all over the world.

When you participate in the hobby of collecting coins you will find that it is not only the thrill of the hunt and the excitement you'll feel when you finally track down that rare 1937-D Buffalo Head Nickel that you have been searching for, for many years. Anyone can do it, and you can either do it for collecting history or for the profit potential that collecting coins can bring.

First of all, like all investments, collecting coins costs money, so you need to determine how much you can afford to spend each year for this. The technical name for the practice of collecting coins is numismatics, a term derived from the Greek word nomisma, meaning “coin” or “currency. Governments and other official agencies issue billions of coins annually, and collecting coins is a popular hobby around the world.

You can start collecting coins on a small basis. The best way to start collecting coins is to buy a coin collecting reference book and to join a coin collecting club if possible. If you really want to go all out, try collecting coins issued in your birth year by other countries.

For more on Coin Collecting visit

www.jacksworldshop.com/Coins

Steve Harris