Yes, not that those stuck in airports or on the autobahn would appreciate this blog too much. But our calendars are indicating March the 1st and that's already a spell of hope... Oh, maybe this term is deprecated, then the spirit of sping, there you go!

Some little robot, named Spirit, very popular on our planet, got stuck on planet Mars, for months, and this not because of snows, though there are puddles on Mars. Okay, let's not veer too much, shall we? Springtime is here! Spirit (the rover) sent us some high resolution pictures (where "us" means NASA.JPL as the "root" and anyone else from the public as "subdirs"). Take a moment to see the small green spell of spring from Mars. If you don't mind, use this as a wallpaper calendar on your desktop (given that it matches the resolutions offered).

Download the wallpaper at: 1280x800px | 1440x900px | 1680x1050px

Don't get scared, we're not gonna reproduce some online manual at hand. The tips listed below are coming from our hands-on experience with one or more customers. Joomla and VirtueMart is serving their online business sales and CSVi is the component that's making their mass data uploads a breeze. 

Some lil things:

1. The [excel].xls file must be properly converted into csv and NO "$" sign in the price cells, because the mySQL data base requires numerical data in the price field. 

Another old and repeated saga: the simple dictionary passwords users cannot care less about. Comes yesterday, Sunday evening news on RTL. A short instructive survey indicates that the most used password is "123456" or... "password" - yes!, the word "password". And I thought that was a "Naked Gun" parody series gag by Leslie Nielsen...  Turns out that reality is often times worse than parody. You may do a google for the string: "most used passwords" in order to discover more attrocious variations of reality.

Yes, today finally a tip-type blog. No more ranting, no more rambling. Hey, nothing sure this will last long. So enjoy the moment.

Since about the last Joomla upgrade to 1.5.15 some of us were hitting in vain the bottom button [Read more] when entering their articles in Joomla. That button became nothing more than a deco element. Sheesh, not good!

The cause, and the solution, is the JCE WYSIWYG editor, better than the Joomla TinyMCE editor, I'd say.

Instead of desperately staring at the dead core thing, why not stare at this screen shot:

...and click on that button to solve your [Read more] problem tag.

Happy Joomla JCE editing wishing y'all!

Yes, we're in that age when anyone's gotta get connected with anyone. For what reason?! Err... well, that's not been thought of. At least not for now. Just let's connect, let's get in the hub, do some chatting about what we've done this morning. Ya know, waking up, bathroom, breakfast, bus (or train, or car), business, back home, boring stuff... Just put it up there and feel important. Some will (are already, wow?) definitely harvest(ing) all the trivia from the public hubs and build nice projects of the future, cute models and more than few neat prognosis charts to be thrown on some table, for some other investment. Sounds like the bursted bubble of ten years ago. Possibly bit more mature because of the better infrastructure. As for the networking software running the clouds and clusters? Most, if not all, was in place through the '80s on mainframes.

Remember yesterday's blog? It happened the same summer, lasted for a month, the building, and keeps on and on with regular maintenance ever since. Couple months ago we even did a major upgrade to it. This is, as you may already figure, another client. Still the provider team is exactly the same one: same web developer, same graphic designer, same web programmer. And this is a very successful web project we're gonna do a fast case blog about.

It began in the late summer of 2006. Joomla plus Virtuemart e-store for thousands to tens of thousands of items. Nothing special, nothing scaring. Yet it proved to be one of the worst ever project of the past decade. Why? Keep reading to see why: