May 19
NickMarketing amazon.aws, CloudFront., intellispire, joomla
About a year ago, I made a post talking about a Joomla plugin I created to connect Joomla! to Cloudfront.
You can read the full post here:
http://www.nicktemple.com/2008/206/cloudfront-plugin-for-joomla.html
After many requests, I decided to release the system under the GPL, and make it available to all for free.
The system needs some work: specifically in the areas of support for CSS files, features, and documentation.
You can download the code from subversion on Google Code. Support is provided only through the linked Google group however I may be available for implementation consulting on large projects – contact Intellispire if you are interested.
Nov 19
NickDevelopment amazon, CloudFront., intellispire, joomla, s3
Yesterday, Amazon released their CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN), which finally makes true, fast CDN’s available at an affordable price to mere mortals.
As usual, I jumped on the challenge and quickly implemented a Joomla! 1.5 native plugin for the service. This plugin automatically moves your sites static content (images, css, javascript) to the CloudFront CDN, thereby providing faster loadtimes for your users … especially those users that are geographically “far away” from your servers.
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Aug 30
NickDevelopment intellispire, joomla, jumpbox, software updater
I’ve been playing with Jumpbox – very cool technology. Just download the “jumpbox” (the free one is available for Joomla! 1.5 – which is great). This is a copy of a complete web-app in a self contained virtual appliance – both of the virtualization technologies I use – VMware and Xen – are supported, as well as a few others. I’ve been playing with the VMware version.
I did have a minor problem with Firefox 3.0 being picky about the self signed cert on port 3000 (used for initial configuration) – no big deal, but something that could throw off a newbie.
After installing, I immediately installed my Intellispire Add Software component:
http://www.intellispire.com/web/Joomla/download.html
Fifteen minutes later I had a fully configured Joomla install with Forum, Community, decent template, and all the required components to have a real site.
This is the best way I have found to try out new components, do testing, and just play with Joomla! without having to have a server. And with the Updater, I can actually demo building out a site on real-time. Then it’s a simple backup / restore to deploy to a live site …
Can’t get much easier than this! Check them out:
JumpBox
Aug 14
NickMarketing intellispire, joomla, security
The Joomla! Core Team has released Joomla! 1.5.6 which is
a required update to ALL Joomla 1.5 sites.
I have written a short post on what the problem is and how you can keep yourself secure – even if you can’t update your site right now, you still must take action.
http://www.intellispire.com/web/Security-Alerts/joomla-156-security-release.html
Due to the dangerous nature of this exploit (people are getting hit right now), I’ve had our staff work overtime to help people upgrade sites.
You can read the article for more details.
To help avert a potential crisis and process more requests, our staff is working overtime through the weekend. You can request upgrade assistance through the Intellispire website.
Jul 01
NickMarketing com_updater, intellispire, joomla
I’ve just completed “beta1″ of the Intellispire Software Updater for Joomla! (more commonly known as “com_updater”), and am looking for a few people to test it out. I’ve even put a screen shot on the front page, so take a moment to check it out – then join the beta!
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