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Azrul Giveaway Contest Results

Tony Lindskog — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:10:50 +0100

Winners of the Azrul JomComment/MyBlog Contest are:

@briantjones

@lifepraise

@ashdodia

@joomladesigner

@perrywirth

The five lucky winners get their pick of a JomComment or MyBlog license, courtesy of our friends at Azrul.com. Congratulations!

To clRead More...

Azrul JomComment and MyBlog Giveaway

Tony Lindskog — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:41:16 +0100

We have wanted to run a contest for a while now so we contacted our friends at Azrul.com to see if they were interested in sponsoring a twitter viral contest.

They said they'd be happy to participate!

So here is the deal. We are going to giveaway five licenses of JomComment Read More...

Three weeks since 1.5.10 was released

Tony Lindskog — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

It is now over Three weeks since Joomla 1.5.10 was released as a 'strongly encouraged' security update by the Joomla security team.

Many users rely on using Fantastico from Netenberg.com to update their installations; this is a huge mistake, especially for security updates thRead More...

Joomla Views covers IceTheme.com

Tony Lindskog — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0100

We are proud to announce that we are now covering another great Joomla template club by adding IceTheme.com.

We have added six template announcements from IceTheme and we are really impressed by the quality of their templates and we will cover all their upcomming templates as well.

Check out the news releases Read More...

Potential Joomla 1.5x security issue

Tony Lindskog — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0100

NinjaForge reports a potential security issue with ALL Joomla 1.5x up to and including 1.5.8; luckily they also report a fix for this security leak.

Apparently there is an issue with attachmentlibrary.php which will allow a folder parameter to be passed to it and have it register as a web server environment variable and this variable is not correctly sanitized.

This script is linked to the xstandard editor plugin, and it affects any and all editors. even third party WYSIWYG editorRead More...

SEF urls are finally working again

Tony Lindskog — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Phew...

I had a real long day working on iJoomla's most excellent component Newsportal today and getting our SEF urls back up again after yesterdays forced Newsportal upgrade.

My Server administrator did some server work yesterday and this caused iJoomla Newsportal to absolutely just puke with the following error.

"Fatal error: Non-static method NewsPortalDisplay::NewsPortalDisplay() cannot be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/xxxRead More...

Happy New Year from Joomla Views

Tony Lindskog — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

We want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope that you will have a great evening of festivities and that 2009 will bring you prosperity and good luck!

We have received several interesting products which we will review for you in the next couple of days; I am currently checking out Stalytics2 from soft-evolution and it is not only pretty but it appears to be a great LIVE traffic tracking component. More to come!

But for now... Enjoy the last day of 2008 and look foRead More...

Merry Christmas

Tony Lindskog — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

The Team here at Joomla Views wants to wish the whole Joomla community a heartfelt Merry Christmas and we hope that Santa brings you all the presents that you wanted (fat chance, right!?).

If you are looking for that last minute gift to someone or let's face it; yourself, check out our Merry Xmas Discount post where you can find great deals and discounts from great companies such as iJoomla, JoomlArt, Shape5, Pakt Publishing and many many more!

We are starting to get a largRead More...

Joomla Views now on Twitter

Tony Lindskog — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

We have decided to make it easier to follow us so besides adding this blog we have also gone Twitter on you.

Check us out and follow us on Twitter for our latest news @ twitter.com/joomlaviews.

Welcome to Joomla Blog

Tony Lindskog — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Hi and welcome to a new section of Joomla Views, our blog section.

The Joomla Blog section will be the place where we post breaking news or updates before or instead of writing an article about something.

Was there a new update to a particular extension, was there a new template released or did Joomla! release a security update that we feel should be announced right away? Check our blog for those quick updates.

We might also be interested in adding guRead More...