Brian Teeman

You enter a crowded bar and across the room you spot a beautiful person. They're dressed in the latest fashions and they have a welcoming smile that draws you across the room to say hello.

We all know that beauty is only skin deep and that it's what's inside that really matters and yet despite that we are still attracted to the one with the stunning looks.

I 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.

Wherever 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.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.