In this video you will learn how you can make a basic module in Joomla 1.5. The author uses one of the libraries included with Joomla, simplepie, to parse a public timeline from Twitter and display it inside a Joomla module.
This 5 min screencast shows you how you can have a flawless Joomla installation running locally on your computer using free components. We'll use the JumpBox for Joomla and run it on of Sun's open source virtualization technology, VirtualBox.