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The infection kicked off warnings from a fake security program

Booby-trapped adverts that hit visitors with fake security software have been discovered on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) website.

Analysis of the LSE site suggests that over the last 90 days, about 363 pages had hosted...

Vodafone users have lost voice, text and internet service

Vodafone's mobile network has been disrupted following a break-in at its exchange centre in Basingstoke.

The company said that several hundred thousand customers had lost voice, text and internet access.

Burglars hit the facility...

Ingres presents itself as "the leading business open source database". So, it's great that such a prominent open source has just rebuilt their main site Ingres.com using a leading open source CMS: Joomla.

Ingres is a relational database developed by a commercial company called the Ingres Corporation and backed by global community of contributors.

Late last year we featured a very high profile United Kingdom government website using Joomla.

This week another such website was launched by the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence.

The Stabilisation Unit is a government division to provide expert support to fragile and conflict-states. The Unit reports to the Ministry of Defence, Foreign and Commonwealth...

When I wrote to the folks in the Joomla User Group Dublin a few weeks ago, saying that I'd be in town for an event, I told them I thought it would be great if I could meet a couple members of their community.  Maybe something like a small user group meeting, talking about some of their Joomla ideas and swapping Joomla success stories.

The Dublin...

Thursday, 10 February 2011

The February issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!

Thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month's issue: Manolis Markatselas, Peter Bui, Jarrod Nettles, Anh Tuan Bui, and Nicholas Dionysopoulos.

Editor’s Introduction

Coming together to announce a new era... by Paul Orwig

Feature stories

Dianne Henning introduces us to a developer who is equally talented and helpful in her Born to be wild: An Interview with Chris Marinou.

Alice Grevet unveils how all the great Joomla! 1.6 launch content came into existence in Kyle Ledbetter: King of the launch room.

Jon Neubauer highlights the crucial work being undertaken to simplify migrations from Joomla! 1.5-1.6 in Developing jUpgrade: An interview with Matias Aguirre.

International stories

Manolis Markatselas has submitted an article in the Greek language for this issue.

Opportunities are now open for community members to submit articles in 17 different languages.

Leadership Connections

OSM board member Alice Grevet shares some updates on what OSM has been doing during January on behalf of the Joomla! project.

CLT member Matt Lipscomb takes us behind the scenes one final time at Joomla! Day West 2010: The 2010 Video Interviews - Final selection.

Website Case Studies

Peter Bui invites you to pass judgement on the Joomla! solutions implemented on the High Court of Australia website.

JUGs and Events

Alice Grevet shares her experiences in connecting with Joomla! 1.6 celebrations all over the world in Let Them Eat Cake!.

Developers Workbench

Jarrod Nettles shares with us his perspectives on how to maintain your sanity by keeping your code in a single library across multiple projects in Rapid Development Techniques: Removing Mootools.

Did you know…?

Anh Tuan Bui shares some really helpful links in Good resources for Joomla! beginners.

Designer's studio

Anthony Olsen shares a lot of great ideas in Fourteen secrets of Joomla! templating.

Administrator's toolkit

Nicholas Dionysopoulos asks some hard questions and reveals some possible pitfalls in How off-line is Joomla!'s off-line mode?.

Joomla! in the Press/Media

Mark Bender bring us Joomla! in the Press/Media — February 2011.

On the lighter side...

Yepr has contributed another Jane Beyond and friends cartoon.

The Joomla! Haiku: Share yours!

Prolific poets,

punsters and word masters too,

spread the Joomla! love...

Post your February 2011 Haiku here!

IN OUR NEXT ISSUE

We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!

While the internet in Egypt has been re-established, the decision to...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian stocks rose on Tuesday, led by shares of resource companies, as strong U.S. factory data and surging commodities prices offset fears that unrest in Egypt could spread to other parts of the Middle East.

Brent crude oil futures steadied after topping $100 a barrel overnight for the first time since 2008, adding to...