JDay USA is nearly here and we’re super excited to participate again this year. We love sponsoring this event, and once again we’ll host website development experts in our virtual sponsor booth. I’ll also be giving a talk on using Cloudflare to improve the performance of your website. Cloudflare has Read more
On Tuesday, May 18 we’ll be attending the online Joomla User Group London meeting at 6PM UTC and giving a live Watchful demo. In the demo we’ll review the basics of our website management platform and then highlight recent developments such as the Account Dashboard, stale backup detection and automatic Read more
As part of JDay USA, Watchful hosted an Ask Me Anything session focused on website maintenance. We invited a panel of Joomla and WordPress experts to help answer your questions. The session was a great success. The questions and discussion points covered a broad range of topics well beyond simply Read more
A year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic forced most in-person conferences to either cancel or move online. Web design conferences were no exception. The coming of age of truly engaging online conference platforms seemed to portend a bright future for online meetings. But here in the spring or 2021 it feels Read more
ke many communities, Joomla users pine for the return of live events. And we grew tired of Zoom conferences many months back. A new and innovative event called Joomla Day USA will be held on April 23-24, 2021 that hopes to address both issues. It is a refreshing and exciting Read more
Here at Watchful, we love both Joomla and WordPress, and we know that lots of you do too. Normally, April, May and June are the peak of the conference season for our favorite CMS’s. I live down in Florida in the United States and during the spring, I’m often able Read more
On today’s Watchful podcast we’re speaking with SD Williams from Danico Enterprises. SD runs her Joomla agency from Chicago where she also teaches content strategy at DePaul University. SD uses Joomla for most of her client work, and organizes both Joomla Day Chicago and Joomla User Group Chicago North. We Read more
A love letter to the global Joomla community. This weekend I attended Joomla’s Forum for the Future (FFTF) in Malaga, Spain. FFTF was a 3-day event that followed an unconference-style format where attendees brainstormed and networked on the future of Joomla. The conference was organized by the Joomla project leadership Read more
When you’re building a company, nothing comes quickly or easily. This week, we celebrate Watchful’s 7th anniversary. Watchful was built on top of an existing extension called jMonitoring that dates back to 2009, so this project has been going for a decade now. I’m deeply grateful to all our customers Read more
The annual J and Beyond conference is a highlight on our calendar. It brings together some of best-known Joomla developers, integrators, and contributors. Also, we love meeting our friends and colleagues to share a coffee and a tasty treat. This past weekend the 2016 edition of J and Beyond took place Read more