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Happy 5th Birthday Joomla!

Attention: open in a new window. PDF | Print | E-mail Wed 01 Sep 10 00:00 Joomla GPS Brian Teeman

happy 5th birthday joomlaI thought long and hard about what to write for this Birthday blog post.

I started to look back at the early days, back in September and October 2005, to see if the aims and ideas of the co-founders have come to fruition.

Then I realised that we had no grand aims of world domination just a desire to work together with a wider community to build something special.

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Top 10 Joomla extensions

Attention: open in a new window. PDF | Print | E-mail Wed 28 Jul 10 14:21 Extensions Brian Teeman

top 10 joomla extensionsWherever I am I always seem to be asked for my top 10 joomla extensions.

So instead of keep repeating myself I'm writing them here and I can just point people at the blog and talk about something more interesting instead when I meet you.

This is MY list and I'm sure people will have other some other ideas so please add them in the comments.

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Is this GPL?

Attention: open in a new window. PDF | Print | E-mail Mon 19 Jul 10 21:35 Extensions Brian Teeman

Onfuscated codeWhilst 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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Flaws in Joomla management - or - Why we need 2+ years for a release

Attention: open in a new window. PDF | Print | E-mail Tue 13 Jul 10 18:19 Joomla 1.6 Hannes Papenberg

Hannes PapenbergIn 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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JomSocial - You cannot be serious - chmod 777!!!

Attention: open in a new window. PDF | Print | E-mail Mon 12 Jul 10 18:30 Extensions Brian Teeman

jomsocial - a hackers dream with chmod 777Spend 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 checklistchecklist"

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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The Joomla World Cup - Spain - World Cup Winners

joomla world cup - spainCongratulations 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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The Joomla World Cup - New Zealand - National Film Archive

joomla world cup - new zealandNew 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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The Joomla World Cup - Brazil - Sao Paulo for tourists

Joomla world cup - brazilI 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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The Joomla World Cup - Spain - Promoting Open Source Software

Attention: open in a new window. PDF | Print | E-mail Wed 07 Jul 10 22:00 Joomla GPS Brian Teeman

joomla world cup - spainSpain 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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The Joomla World Cup - Netherlands - Materials Innovation Institute

joomla world cup - netherlandsThanks 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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