Polish Joomla! Day – countdown started

On Saturday and Sunday, 22 September and 23 September 2012 will be the first Polish Joomla! Days . Dozens of users of Joomla developers and professionals will come to Poznan (Poland), to share their knowledge and experiences.

The mysterious ads in Joomla and a surprising discovery

Rather rarely accepts this type of job, because I do not think they necessarily need to my knowledge, because sometimes just ask on the official joomla forum to solve them. But something tempted me, you can call it a challenge. Well, the client reported that his newly created web page appeared a small block of advertising to a website with pirated software. At first I thought maybe someone hacked into his website. Anyway, that was the title of the email, so suggested that I started drill down on…

More and more people pay for content

A year after the introduction of fees for their digital content, “The New York Times” has 454 000 people paying for subscriptions. Newspaper announced the reduction by half the number of items which you can read for free.

Interview with IT security specialist James Galczyk; on Joomla, skillsets and practical learning

You may remember from my post that the security issues involved in different people from around the world. The result is that in this group of people are also our countrymen from Poland. Not so long ago, one of the Polish names appeared next to the updates and security vulnerabilities in Joomla 1.7 and (first edition) 2.5. In this way my trail fell on Jacob, with whom I swapped a few words in an interview.

Important updates in the World of Joomla

First of all I have to mention today’s update of Joomla to version 2.5.2. This is a security release (Two Security Issues Fixed). The update process in Joomla is very easy (almost one click in Extension Manager) – so you don’t have to update core files by FTPing them.