bundles for symfony apart those from github - github

Apart these bundles of Symfony here
Does it any other bundles shared in other websites ?

You can go to this unofficial but usefull website: http://knpbundles.com/
And since Symfony2 uses composer, if you are looking for a library you can give a look at: https://packagist.org/

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symfony2 plug-ins comprehensive catalog

is there a comprehensive website for symfony2 plug-ins, so we could easily find tools for our needs - like it's with Ruby on Rails (rubytoolbox and rubygems)?
In Symfony2 the "plugins" are called "bundles". You can find them all around the web, but one good source is http://knpbundles.com.
Query Packagist for symfony - though you can use non-symfony-strict libs in your project as well.

creating components

I'm learning to create joomla components so is there any difference between joomla2.5 and joomla1.5 for creating components and modules as on the joomla official site documentation is about joomla1.5.
http://docs.joomla.org/Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_%28MVC%29_Component_for_Joomla!2.5_-_Part_01
You can find the tutorial of developing module in Joomla 2.5.
Yes, there are quite big differences.
First of all the install manifest has changed between 1.5 and 2.5, which means that components developed for 1.5 won't install on J2.5.
Secondly many Joomla classes has changed and some conventions are replaced by others. Check the Joomla API for the differences.

A sample gwt project using requestFactory, activites and places

Links to any sample gwt project using requestFactory, activites and places?
Thank you.
I found this post from David Chandler very helpful. It discusses a sample project (source code here) using Request Factory, Objectify and Activities and Places.
The project is also discussed in this Google I/O talk. The difference from the original project is that in the talk they use GWTP for the MVP part. You should check out GWTP also as it really simplifies developing with MVP.
My experience with the roo plugin for GWT and GAE wasn't very good. It wasn't very mature when I looked at it (around March 2011), but maybe things have changed since then. For example you had to compile from trunk, as the latest stable version had some bugs, and even then a many to many relation between entities wasn't supported. Documentation was kind of scarce also.
The MobileWebApp sample from the GWT SDK ?
http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/browse/tags/2.4.0/samples/mobilewebapp/

Notifications for Joomla extension updates

Is there an extension that would check whether there are newer versions available to the installed extensions on a Joomla site, and would notify the site administrator?
Ideally, I am looking for something similar to Drupal's "Update" module.
I understand that there is no central place for keeping all these modules and their versions for Joomla, but at least a lot of them are available on the Joomla Extensions site, along with the needed information, so perhaps somebody wrote a tool that checks that source?
Aha, looks like this is to be included in Joomla 1.6, according to this description (check out the "Find Updates" button, looks great).
But if you are using Joomla 1.5 until 1.6 is stable check out: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/installers/9332
Excellent for keeping components up to date :)

what cms that can support more than one language?

One of my clients asked me to integrate an open source CMS in her website.The challenge I have right now is that she wants the website to be bilingual. is there any cms that implements this feature? The content on each page should be displayed either in english or french and no automation translation(like google's or babel fish). only static content should be held in language configuration files.
Thanks for any help or idea.
N2CMS can do that. It supports multi-sites on one installation, multi-language, templating, MVC. And it is a very developer-friendly, developed in C#.
http://n2cms.com
http://n2cms.codeplex.com/
Drupal, besides being considered the best php-based open source CMS, has multilingual support
"Internationalization: Build Multilingual Sites"
http://drupal.org/node/133977
Umbraco does this, is FOSS and based on .NET.
http://umbraco.org/
go for joomla it support multi lingual , use joom fish component
According to one of its FAQ's, Plone, running the LinguaPlone add-on can do this, if I understand your question correctly.
MODXCMS.com does enable you to use lots of different languages on the same site!
They call it YAMS - Yet Another Multilingual Solution ---
about YAMS on the MODX Forums
I say go with MODx CMS coupled with YAMS. Choose the Evolution release, not the Revolution. I just installed the YAMS and it's working like a charm.
The learning curve maybe a bit steep but it's worth every hour I spent learning it.
Are you looking for a translation memory/CMS or a CMS that integrates with a TM?
How many languages are you looking to support?
Any of the complicated ones? (HAT, for example)