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!
The last upgrade for Joomla was the move from 1.0 to 1.5 over 3 years ago and yet we still see many, many Joomla sites running Joomla 1.0.
Why is it that - after people have bust their ass to produce a shiny new version of our product - users are so slow to upgrade?
What can be done to ensure that the same doesn't happen with the release of Joomla 1.6?
What can we do to ensure that we aren't supporting three different and incompatible releases of Joomla! on our client's web sites?
How can we ensure that all users will see the benefits of all the hard work?
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.
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.
