The Ramblings of a Developer, Project Manager, Sys Admin and Tech Junkie
What is an SSL Cert? SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, a cryptographic method that was developed in the mid-90s to add a layer of encryption to web communications. You’ve probably seen that most we addresses take the form of http://website.com or https://website.com. The former is the usual, non-encrypted version and the latter is the…
So last week we suffered a power outage. My UPC managed to shut down our Windows Server 2012 Host without a problem. However, I forgot that this host is running my Nagios XI VM. That VM did not shut down correctly. Whilst Nagios does work fine once booted up, the screens are plastered with messages about…
Joomla 3.5 has been Released It’s that time again; The Joomla development team have released the next major version of their CMS, Joomla 3.5. This release fixes a bunch of security issues, adds plenty of new functionality. For those of you with existing Joomla websites you will be glad to hear that this time the…
One thing I did not like about the old Joomla 1.5 and 1.0 was that need to use 3rd party tools to add extra fields to Joomla’s user registration process. The 3rd party tools were often heavyweights like Community Builder, which were complete overkill for what I was doing, e.g. adding a country or city…
Thought it would be nice to show those who don’t want to go through the entire installation process what the new installer looks like + have a quick gander at the new Admin UI. First make sure your server matches the Joomla 3.0 minimum requirements:
Exciting times are here; the first public installer for the next major Joomla version (Joomla 3.0) was released this weekend. The STS (short term release) Joomla 3.0. It’s looking pretty sweet.
I rarely write about upgrading an extension to work with Joomla 2.5 but Mosets Tree is a core feature for quite a few of our organisation type websites. Migration is pretty painless but then you may come across some problems. Here are 2 that we come across all the time, without fail. The administrator can…
Sometimes one needs to access Joomla’s functions and variables from an external script. Typically one should write a Joomla extension to do so but maybe you want something done quick, or you just need a little integration to another system, e.g. I’ve often had the need to grab the name or id of a user…
The Joomla team have released Joomla 2.5.4 and associated patch files. This is a pretty low priority security release patching an information disclosure issue and a potential xss vulnerability. It does add 3 new features however. Add option to show full CMS version number in generator tag Implementing Access levels for Content Languages Make the…
The Joomla team have released Joomla 1.5.26 and associated patch files. It is highly recommended that you upgrade all Joomla 1.5x websites as this patch includes a high severity password reset vulnerability and a low priority information disclosure issue. details here http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5419-joomla-1526-released.html and here http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/9-security/10-core-security/396-20120305-core-password-change