Several months ago the "new" OSM board published a set of accounts.
At the time many people in the community questioned the amount of money that was being spent on Legal and PR agency fees.
Today I saw that OSM have published an updated set of accounts and I'm really pleased with what I saw.
The amount of money being spent on Legal and PR have been drastically reduced. Thank you OSM for listening to the community and taking action.
On the 5th anniversary of the release of Joomla 1.0 I have decided to launch a new web site.
Suprisingly it is probably only about the third or fourth site I have ever built just for myself and not a client.
HiddenJoomlaSecrets.com is the new home of all my presentations and videos, which I hope to be adding to considerably in the coming weeks and months.
Last night I started writing a new blog post and it quickly became apparent to me that it really should be a video.
Not a problem I thought, I know how to produce videos.
Just this morning I was telling some friends how brilliant iMovie is on the Mac for producing videos.
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!
