After Joomla 2.5 being released (on January the 24th, 2012 - see article) I looked forward to update this site to the new release. It was stuck at 1.7, and I just liked to test and have a look at the new version. I though in a few days I had the site online using the new code, but I was terribly wrong. I jumped right into the plugin and extensions updates, not mentioning I modified the source code in some point to correct some small bug. So, after a first compulsive update of the code

I recently  updated my hardware at the office, and i switched from Win7 32bit to Win7 64bit. Almost everything worked fine in the new environment, other than a small/big problem with the curl library in my PHP/Apache installation. The configuration was fine - I was pretty sure I followed all the necessary steps to make it works: enable it in php.ini by removing the leading semicolon in "; php_curl.dll", copying libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll in windows/system32 directory (or somewhere else

Joomla 1.7 (stable) is out. The new relese policy of the CMS will release a new version every six months, with a LTS release avery three. That means it will be hard to stay up to date if the new release will not support previous releases plugins and templates - at least starting from 1.6, or 1.7.   It should be easier now to perform an update, but that will be true only for thoose using the CMS as is, no plugins or extensions. Otherwise, probabily, it will be a nightmare - a six month cycling

lately I faced the problem to publish the cam application on a public IP address, to be accessible from outside the company. Obviously the access had to be password protected.   First I installed mod_proxy and I configured it to make the internal site published. But I suddenly realized it wasn't enough - the site referenced many images using absolute URLs, and that URLs were not accessible from outside. So I had to translate them to the right path, through the proxy. Inside VirtualHost, I had:

Probably everyone has a free email address - someone more than one. And many of us has some very old one, that has become the "official one", the one used to register in our main interests service sites (electricity, phone, ISP provider, social networks,...) and the one all our friends use to communicate with us. And many people are recently facing some "little problem", in handling all communications using web mail. Yes, web mail. Noy many providers give free access to your accounts using POP3

Recently I had to work with some IP cameras and surveillance systems, and I played around with software and hardware making some tests here at the company before doing the real stuff. I first got some documentation about the cameras I had here available, some old Intellinet IP cameras 550550 and 550710. They have no mjpeg streaming, and images are accesible using a java or activex plugin. Luckily there's the possibility to use javascript to retreive the images and have a live image from the