Banter and Ideas
There is where we cleverly stash our random banter, ideas, and thoughts about whatever it is we find interesting or worth mentioning on any given day. Any code snippets posted in this area are © 2008 - 2009 Webimagery, LLC. but available for use under the terms of the GNU General Public License unless stated otherwise.
An Introduction to the Joomla! 1.6 ACL API
Tuesday, 02 June 2009 20:24
There's been a lot of buzz about the new Joomla! 1.6 ACL system so I thought this would be a good opportunity to write up a quick introduction about how to use the new API in your extensions. We invested a lot of time and energy designing the 1.6 API and we are proud of the result because it offers a good balance between simplicity and power.
Security Announcements
Wednesday, 10 December 2008 02:31
The Joomla project has lacked a good mechanism for notifying users and administrators of security issues for a very long time. I am happy to see that problem has finally been addressed. Subscribe to Joomla Security News to receive automatic notifications about new security issues.
Fun with Google Charts
Tuesday, 29 July 2008 13:43
Last month we needed to embed some simple graph charts into a dashboard for one of our projects. We spent some time researching a few options but in the end, settled on Google Charts because the charting system is completely open and well, it is Google so it is as reliable as one can get. The idea was to generate simple HTML tables and then use JavaScript to transform the tables into visual charts.