Recently on one of my Joomla projects a user complained that they used the Password Reset feature but they encountered an error in the final steps of the process. How does Joomla’s Password Reset feature work? Joomla’s Password Reset feature asks for the user’s email address which it checks for in the user account table [...]

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I’ve recently started looking at the ZEND framework for PHP and wanted to know how to install and run it on my Windows XAMMP development environment. Norman Kosmal has a nice post on how to do this here and the Zend folk have a nice quick-start guide here

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More and more websites are using WordPress as their back-end Content Management System due to its ease of use and excellent built-in search-engine-optimization. However, as with all software, WordPress does have bugs that are exploited to wreak havoc on your site. This blog article talks about upgrading your WordPress installation to ensure the latest security [...]

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Prototyping is the method by which a designer/developer mocks up pages/screens for a web site or some piece of software, to help the design and development team visualize the product. Sketching out on a piece of paper is generally best as at this stage of development there are likely to be many changes and sketching [...]

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WordPress is a powerful publishing platform (this site uses it) and it seems to be going from strength to strength. This is partly due to the fact that WordPress is easy to hack i.e. it’s easy to re-write code to make the platform do what you want it to. Hacking core files, however, is problematic [...]

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Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten increasingly busy (hence the lull in articles on this site) in customising certain Joomla components at work. One component I came across just last week is RokDownloads. This is a file-download management component for Joomla 1.5 and as the name suggests it rocks! Developed by the same team [...]

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Although Joomla is a very popular open source application for building content-rich web sites, the available documentation for version 1.0x leaves a lot to be desired. Currently working on a pretty big, and complicated, project involving multiple Joomla sites, I went off in search of relevant material that would help me design and build custom [...]

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I went on a bit of a Cheat Sheet binge this month. Working on a couple of projects using various technologies means I keep bouncing around looking for stuff so I thought I’d better get some cheat sheets up on my wall to save me time. Most of these are from one site, the brilliantly [...]

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Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, said in April’s Ruby Conference that Ruby and PHP are the languages of choice for new web applications. Both Ruby and PHP are open source and therefore it comes as no surprise that both these languages are being taken up far more quickly than established languages [...]

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A lot is usually made of the scalability of Ruby on Rails applications, usually leaning toward the negative. ZDNet spoke to LinkedIn about their viral application, called BumperSticker, for Facebook which sees in the region of 1 billion page views a month! Read the article on ZDNet.com here…

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I know this has nothing, well almost nothing, to do with Internet-related business but I’m so impressed with this site and its founders that I just had to write about it. For those of you who may not know of it, Rails is a web development framework built using the programming language Ruby. The framework [...]

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