Whilst checking a site today I came across some code that triggered my scanner alert scripts.

I was unable to read the code as it was obfuscated/encrypted/encoded - select whichever you think is appropriate.

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In the last weeks, I've taken a step back from my involvement into the Joomla project and took a good look at what we achieved. And let me say: Joomla has quite a lot of great and talented developers and basically all the work that has been done by them was good and deserves to be noted.

But I also saw, that we have huge problems. I'm not telling a secret when I'm saying that our releases are not really at a fast pace and we also didn't keep all our promises all the time...

But what is the cause of this?

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Spend any time on the joomla forums and you will see "help my web site has been hacked".

The first response is always the same "please read the security checklist"

In numerous places you will see

"Use proper permissions on files and directories. They should be should never be 777"

But with JomSocial the reverse is true!

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Congratulations to Spain, winners of the FIFA World Cup for the first time in the competition's history.

After a game that at times more resembled unarmed combat than "the beautiful game" Spain were the eventual winners.

Although Dutch Striker Arjen Robben will have induced a few heart attacks towards the end.

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New Zealand were the only team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup not to lose a game.

They didn't win a game either so unfortunately left the competition after the group stages.

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I had been saving several Brazilian sites for the later stages of the World Cup but somehow they managed to get knocked out much earlier than I expected.

Whoever said that this World Cup was going to be predictable?

As there was no game today I'm taking the opportunity to post one of those Brazilian web sites.

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Spain were one of the "red hot" favourites before the start of the World Cup but somehow after they managed to lose their first game we all forgot that.

It has been slightly harder to find high profile joomla web sites in Spain than in some other countries

I suspect that this is more down to my poor language skills than any lack of adoption.

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Thanks to Sander for supplying me with a very long list of impressive high profile web sites from the Netherlands. I never thought I would need such a big list.

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We all know that two of the greatest Joomla extension developers are in Greece.

There can hardly be a Joomla web site developer that has not heard of Akeeba Backup or K2 from JoomlaWorks.

But let's not forget that one half of the Community Builder team are also in Athens.

Maybe there is something in the water of the "Home of Democracy" that makes such great Joomla developers or perhaps it's the quality of the education.

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