Version 1.0.12 of the Joomla content management system eliminates about 140 errors and various security holes in the basic system. (heise.de) The Joomla! core is safe (anonymous Wikipedia editor) See also: Sick of crusading Joomla! advocates and New Joomla! version – and a fresh security start
I don’t know where Dirk found this list, but for summing up the year it seems an adequate collection. So here we go: Gained or lost weight? Gained – but stable now Longer or shorter hair? No change Nearsighted or farsighted? Recent check showed increased nearsightedness – as a result I got new fancy glasses … [Read more…]
Shortly after I moved into this new appartment, the landlord put a shared satellite dish on the roof. Given the technical infrastructure in this house all I could install was a single receiver, so the switch to satellite-TV (all I ever had before was cable-TV) brought some previously unknown inconveniences, especially the need to program … [Read more…]
Well, that was quite difficult. Timeline of events: June 2006: In an article on heise.de I heard about FON for the first time. The concept was interesting, but since I didn’t plan to use WLAN at home I dismissed it. July 2006: A co-worker started to use FON and made me reconsider the idea. As … [Read more…]
I had a lengthy email conversation with Brian Layman a few months ago about security issues in WordPress, and the need to motivate WordPress users (who more often than not are laymen [no pun intended] themselves) to upgrade. Brian is a bit desillusioned how security issues are handled by the WordPress core team. He compiled … [Read more…]
The most recent issue of the Google Friends newsletter contained an explosive piece of information: Finally, orkut no longer requires an invite — anyone can sign up for an account. Sorry, Google, but nobody cares anymore. Orkut was in elitist beta for too long. Now social networks like MySpace have taken the lead. Better luck … [Read more…]
I had a speaking engagement in Frankfurt the last two days, and I decided to take the ICE train. The ride to Frankfurt was nonstop and took exactly 99 minutes, at a top speed of 300 km/h (186 mph), and since we started rather early the better part of the journey was during sunrise. About … [Read more…]
The social networking platform formerly known as OpenBC (read: Open Business Club) has renamed itself, and in the process dropped the old layout and dressed itself in a supposedly stylish Web 2.0 design. Its founders plan to go public next year, and I would be pretty surprised if we would NOT see LinkedIn buying the … [Read more…]
Today I received Internet Explorer 7 as part of the Windows update. For a professional webmaster this is a significant date, because it means that the majority of visitors (43% for this blog, ~60/65% for the corporate pages under my control) is now in the process of switching from IE6 to IE7. This should make … [Read more…]
A fellow member of WebmasterWorld came up with a clever marketing idea. He (she?) hid US$ 200 on the website, and the first visitor who finds it will receive the amount in cash. Of course this is a shameless attempt on getting links to the site, but I appreciate the smart idea. So here’s the … [Read more…]