rvdavid blogs: Web Development

HELP WANTED: Full time PHP Developer required to work ASAP!

rvdavid — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:25:13 +0000

I’ve posted before asking for freelancers and companies - we’ve since changed our requirements to hire someone full time. We need a Professional PHP developer to get on board and hit the ground running ASAP. You will be working as part of a small team and working in collaboration with the lead developer. Basic Skillset required: * Solid [...]

Joomla 1.5.7 Security release is now available

rvdavid — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:33:59 +0000

Joomla! has released the latest version of their Open Source Software. In a nutshell, the release contains fixes for 1 critical and 2 moderate vulnerabilities. The Developers urge all 1.5.x users to upgrade _now_

PHP Developers, Freelancers or Companies - I need you!

rvdavid — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:32:23 +0000

This post is more a call for help than your usual Web Development tip and commentary on the Ubuntu Linux distro. My team and I are currently being swamped with work here and may need some help very soon. So in this post I am asking developers of some skill to contact me as I may [...]

Linkr - a beautiful extension for Joomla 1.5

rvdavid — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:25:39 +0000

If you are a Joomla user or developer, then you would have come accross the requirement of linking to articles and/or menu items from the WYSIWYG editor. The current way is tedious. You’d either have to try and guess the URL and have some sort of workaround so that you can remember how to format links. [...]

Ubuntu Linux: Tweak your network connectivity and/or performance by disabling IPV6

rvdavid — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:19:53 +0000

While browsing for a solution for Firefox’s slow connection “bug”, I found a more “global” solution in Ubuntu. In short, the global solution is to blacklist IPV6. You can do this simply by adding the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: blacklist ipv6

The Default Virtuemart Theme is a piece of $***!

rvdavid — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:11:31 +0000

There I’ve said it, I’ve spent the most part of today and my afternoon yesterday theming VM. I thought, hey there’s a default template here, I’ll just modify that… Several hours later, I’m bumping into inline styles, redundant div nesting and crappy css! FFS I just wanted to change a couple of defaults! VM team! Please [...]

Security Alert for Joomla 1.5.x Users

rvdavid — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:50:02 +0000

A security alert has been raised at the Joomla Developer site. A vulnerability has been found to exist in the “user” component of the popular OSS which allows attackers to forge a password reset. Joomla Developers have since developed a patch which is available from their website. Versions affected: 1.5 - 1.5.5 Solution: Download the patch and [...]

Evolution Mail Client Mixed messages up!!!

rvdavid — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:01:01 +0000

I’m inches away from shoving my fist through my laptop screen! I don’t know how something like this could happen, but Evolution, the Mail Client I’ve switched to, has somehow mixed my email messages up. This is a real pain in the neck because while there was a solution for fixing it up by moving [...]

How to get the use of your number pad back in Ubuntu

rvdavid — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:56:25 +0000

Number pad not working in Ubuntu? I feel your pain. After an upgrade to Hardy, my numberpad stopped working in Ubuntu Linux. I decided to look around in the Keyboard preferences and found my answer. I found that mousekeys was enabled. To get the use of my num pad back, all I had to do [...]

Internet Explorer 5.5, 6 and 7 on Linux with IEs4Linux

rvdavid — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:57:49 +0000

Being a web developer, I need to make sure that the web pages I develop are rendered correctly (or in some cases “close enough” to correctly) across different browsers. Back when I was using Windows that wasn’t a problem for me, I can run all the major browsers for PC - Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s [...]