Wow, it has been too long since the last blog post.  I guess time does fly when you are having fun!  It has been a busy year here.  New Joomla 3.x compatible versions of Zap Calendar and Zap Weather have been released, and over 20 Zap Calendar add-ons are now available.  We have a few more Zap Calendar add-ons to convert and a few more bugs to fix, but the production release of Zap Calendar should be out soon, hopefully in the next month or two.  The current beta release is "Looking Good" and we are happy with the features and stability of the product.  We hope you are too!

Zap Calendar has gone through a major rewrite in Zap Zalendar 4.  All the back-end screens were re-written to conform to the new Joomla user interface.  For the front end, the MooTools enabled popup windows have been replaced with the jQuery equivalent.  Zap Calendar also utilizes the new font icon feature of Joomla (seen in the settings dropdown menu in the Zap Calendar front end and other areas), providing a clean and minimalistic style to the calendar.  Internally, all events are now stored in Universal time, so multiple calendars for different time zones are now possible.

There are a few add-ons from Zap Calendar 3 that will not be converted to version 4.  The recaptcha plugin will not be converted since this is now integrated with the Joomla CMS and Zap Calendar supports it now in the comment plugin.  Also, the Google Weather plugin will not be converted since Google recently dropped the API.  This was a nice feature, but Google decided to drop it along with their iGoogle product.  The Zap Weather plugin was recently converted to verson 4, so that is an option for USA weather.  We will be looking at other weather API's that support global weather that would make a good fit for Zap Calendar.