The Ramblings of a Developer, Project Manager, Sys Admin and Tech Junkie
So one of my tasks in the “day job” is to manage the redesign and upgrade of a small business network and infrastructure. Not exactly rocket science, but for anyone who has done so, you know there’s disruption, teething problems and gotchas. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to build and test as much…
For any of us running servers it is critical that we keep on top of security. As soon as I provision a new server I receive hundreds of attacks, even before any website or front-facing service is installed on the server. Why? Because there are so many bots scanning IP ranges for machines to compromise.…
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…
The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller is a great tool. Love that I’m able to see the VGA out signal without having a monitor connected. Makes the server a dream to work with. I’ve had this server switched on for years now, running ESXI, it never needs a restart or a sign in to IDRAC…
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…
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH! Not exactly intuitive. 1. In the “slides” list, filter a certain category from the drop down, located on the right, above the slides list. 2. Now you see the slides for that particular category. Hit the “Order” table header, so manual ordering is enabled. 3. Drag a slide from the 4-directional arrow to…
add style=xhtml to your jdoc include for the position, e.g. <jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”contenttop” style=”xhtml” />
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: