Portal:Component Development/Reading list
From Joomla! Documentation
- Developing a Model-View-Controller Component

- Adding ACL rules to your component

- Adding sortable columns to a table in a component

- Component Program Flow.

- (UML sequence diagrams showing the control flow for a component.)
- Creating a file uploader in your component

- Creating a toolbar for your component

- Creating Mootools accordion or simple slider/toggler

- Creating PDF views

- File Structure and Naming Conventions

- How to add breadcrumbs

- How to add custom filters to components

- How to implement XML-RPC in a component
- JController and its subclass usage overview

- Joomla Platform Portal

- Managing Component Updates - Part 1

- Manifest files

- (For the installation of extensions.)