October 13th, 2008
by kevin
Or, keep the crackers guessing..
If you’ve got an active website online chances are you’re aware of the presence of those nefarious types who, for whatever unscrupulous reasons, attempt to breach the security measures of your website for their own personal gain or glory.
Sure, it’d be nice if everyone could just get along, respect each others stuff and enjoy their time online, both in publishing and browsing but.. “That ain’t happenin’ anytime soon” so…
I’ve taken the liberty of putting together a few articles on “hardening joomla! CMS “, “domain and website security measures 101″ and “10 effective tips for responsible website administration”.
All overly titled and official sounding but, even if you are the type who would rather skip the readme.txt and go straight to the install, you should find something of value that may perhaps, save you a day or three from rebuilding one or more of your projects which succumbed to a security breach.
August 26th, 2008
by kevin
Just a note to mention to folks looking to try a little something different in the way of Administration Templates for their joomla or a8ejoomla website. We’ll be releasing our initial “default” a8e admin template to the public the first week of September.
Details and sneak previews can be found over on the a8e.org website (though, as of this post they’re not published yet.)
April 6th, 2008
by kevin
The recent Wordpress 2.5 press release from Matt on the state of WordPress 2.5 reads like a Christmas list of epic proportions. My own long wish-list for mojoBlog pales in comparision with what the wordpress developer community has achieved over the last six months.
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February 14th, 2008
by kevin
As Duvien mentioned over on a8ejoomla I’m in the process of taking up the mantle of developer bottle-washer emeritus.
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December 16th, 2007
by kevin
just because you can, don’t.
As a sort of an ongoing “addendum” to one of my favorite articles on common web design mistakes I’ve compiled a few notes on things we joomla! developers should do, but commonly don’t…
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July 31st, 2007
by kevin
Give misguided visitors a softer landing
Successful blogs by their very nature tend to grow and evolve exponentially over time. Adding new categories and topics to your blog structure doesn’t pose much of an issue but, what do you do when you need to change the structure and categorical markup but don’t want folks/search engines getting whacked with “PAGE NOT FOUND” errors?
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June 18th, 2007
by kevin
In an increasingly divided open discussion about developer/designer authorship rights and GPL, Joomla! voices it’s informal stance on licensing, user and developer rights and, well.. It’s looking like 2005 all over again. read more | digg story
If you build it they will come
The gist of the ongoing discussion (other than the rant on branching the now infamous world’s longest threaded forum discussion) doesn’t appear to be coming from the core joomla! developers camp as much as it does from the leagues of open source developers, 3rd party coders, theme and template designers and occasional GPL bashers adding their 2cents worth over on the joomla forums.
Interesting reading but you’ll need to pack a lunch (and dinner, and tomorrow’s breakfast…)
May 8th, 2007
by kevin
A number of folks have requested a version of trikea coded up for joomla I’ve gone ahead and done it for you. It’s styled up specifically for a8ejoomla but will work/display almost as intended in joomla (due to the few remaining nested tables in joomla, there’s an extra bottom border (or two) that I’d not intended) but…
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May 7th, 2007
by kevin
Trikea is a simple, 3 column xhtm-strict layout which I’ve released to the public under creative commons copyright 3.0 so, feel free to use, modify and share if you wish.
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April 17th, 2007
by kevin
I’m usually deep into my browser searchbar (firefox) more times a day than I can comfortably count. I use it to check correct code syntax, look up article references, double check spelling and even plan the dinner menu (yeah, i occasionally cook!) and it’s gotten even more research friendly with the recent advent of “Opensearch” microformat and the release of the opensearch API from A9 (Amazon).
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