We are used to communication being secure
If we phone with our mobiles, we assume that only the people we dialled can hear us.
When transferring money we provide information via the bank's web page and we trust that nobody else can use that information to withdraw money from our accounts.
Read more: Protect Joomla! passwords on public WiFi networks
Bullying is perhaps one of the oldest and most unpleasant human traits. With the rise of the internet we have moved from the playground and office bully, who is easy to identify, to the more anonymous cyber bully.
Sadly cyber bullying is something that is on the rise and schools and the workplace are still attempting to establish means to identify this and handle it appropriately.
Over the last year I have been working closely with several schools across the UK to raise awareness of the issue of cyber bullying and to establish policies and best practice to handle this appropriately and considerately.
Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks you will know that J&Beyond took place last week in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Over the last 10 years I have attended countless Mambo, Joomla, Linux and other open source events and I'm convinced that this was the best of the lot.
It's hard to say exactly what it was that made this event the best.
This is a guest blog post by Marcos Peebles from PIEZOWORKS.
So, Drupal got the White House, nice and a very positive move for Open Source in general and CMS's in particular. What about Joomla! and governmental sites?
We always want to know were we stand, don't we? Recently a typical internet buzz tried to imply Joomla! was for the dwarfs and that more serious CMS's got all the biggies. Is it true?
A reply from the very-naughty-boy hosting this blog on twitter to OSM President Ryan Ozimek, about a country using Joomla! got me going for a deeper look.
..on a live site.
Thats right I really did say don't install Joomla 1.6 Beta 1 and I encourage everyone else not to as well.
How can I say that?
Am I mad?
Am I saying it's rubbish?
Last week I met up again with David Towers for our semi regular lunch time gossip.
David has recently returned from a trip to the West African country of Ghana and it was great to hear all about his trip.
Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country to achieve independence from a Western imperial power, in 1957, and lies on the Prime Meridian so is one of the few countries that is in the same time zone as me, here in the UK.
It is also the second largest producer of Cocoa and one of the world's top gold producers.
Tesco is the third largest retailer in the world just behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour.
When a global company with annual profits exceeding £3billion per year adopts Joomla! you know it's not about the price.
Today they announced the launch of their online learning portal, AcademyOnline, for over 400,000 staff around the world using Joomla and Moodle.
Did you know - there will be no comments in Joomla 1.6?
Joomla 1.6 was slated to have three big features
- Nested Categories
- ACL
- Comments
Recently in an IRC chat Andrew Eddie confirmed that "comments" will not be in Joomla 1.6
As the explanation of what I feel is a major announcement is buried in a comment, how ironic is that, on that irc chat.
We all hopefully know that joomla is a misspelling of a swahili word meaning "all together" but do you know how we chose that name or what the cms formerly known as mambo could have been called.
At the recent Joomla!Day in the Netherlands I gave my recollections of the turbulent and traumatic process involved.
Sadly I was doing most of this by memory as I no longer have any of my own records from that time, but Arno, Jean-Marie and Johan helped to fill in some of the gaps.
I'll be making this presentation again at J&Beyond later this month and maybe by then I may have filled in a few more gaps.
