After sleeping on it for a few days and reading your many kind comments, tweets and emails I've decide that I will continue writing the blog after all.

Normal service will be resumed on friday.

Still deciding but right now I'm seriously considering closing this blog and taking it offline.

I really wanted to be writing a good news blog today/tonight but ...

On Wednesday I explained how your Joomla site might be exploited

"Just because you keep your server secure and your software up to date you may have been exploited yesterday, ready to be hacked tomorrow."

Today I read an article explaining the exact same thing happening on a Wordpress site. I had tried to explain this to the site owner 6 weeks earlier but...

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Every day we get closer and closer to the release of Joomla! 1.6, and with the release of Joomla! 1.6 Alpha 2 imminent,  I thought it would be a bit of fun to have a competition to correctly detect the date and time of the release of Joomla! 1.6.0 Stable.

To avoid any confusion the time will be defined as GMT.

There will be a very special prize for the winner.

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..or how do you keep your Joomla web site secure?

I've sat on this blog post for a few weeks as I wanted to separate any connection to the specific client for who this relates to.

So I'm sat in a hotel bedroom, idling away the time before bed, browsing a news sites when a skype window pops up on my Mac.

"Please help!!!! I've got 12 sites all on different servers and they keep getting defaced."

Now obviously I then ran through my usual set of questions:

1. "Are the sites running the latest version of Joomla?"
2. "Are the file and directory permissions set sensibly?"
3. "Do you monitor the extensions and make sure they are all up to date?"

And the answer was yes to all of the above.

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Actually this article should really be titled "How NOT to make a Joomla template".

I've blogged in the past about using Joomla Template Clubs and software to create your own joomla template and I know many people like to design their own template from scratch.

But there is still a significant number of people who just take one of the three default Joomla templates and modify them to suit their needs.

If you are one of those people then this is especially at you.

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You may have been lucky enough to have seen this presentation live in The Netherlands or Germany or even listened to it at slideshare but now you can watch the presentation in all it's glory.

Thanks to my cameraman Fotis Evangelou the entire presentation is now here for you to enjoy.

It's 31 minutes of pure entertainment - I hope you enjoy it as much as those who saw it live.

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Regular readers will have noticed, I hope, that last week I was on holiday and was not online.

Due to changed personal circumstances that no longer means picking up a back pack and travelling to one of the more remote parts of Africa, Asia or Arabia. Instead I would be doing a more traditional sun, sea and swimming vaction on the Greek island of Kos.

I checked before leaving the UK and the hotel had wifi in all areas and I was already  taking my laptop with me to watch some movies.

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Do I really have to leave?