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cedTag 2.5.4 for J2.5 announcement

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Wed, 30 May 2012 21:34:04 +0000

CedTag will be updated soon to version 2.5.4 and will correct a lot of bugs and contains some nice new features.

CedTag is the continuation of the GPL component Joomla Tags (www.joomlatags.org), Most of the code if not all has been now rewritten according to the new standard of Joomla 2.5, the component has been greatly extended and most bugs have been removed. I will continue removing, refactoring existing codebase, in order to be able to add new features faster.

What’s new

BUG: Code cleaning, according to Joomla standard: my dream is to have this extension accepted in Joomla core! Still a lot of PHP Unit test to be written before submitting this to the mailing list of Joomla developers. Now I use Joomla CodeSniffer and PSR-1 CodeSniffer rules in my day to day development.
BUG: after click on Template Manager it show this err Fatal error: Class 'UsersHelper' not found in /home/assafir/public_html/administrator/components/com_cedtag/views/css/view.html.php on line 41
BUG: tags were not inserted automatically from new content article in frontend,

NEW: tags can also now be automatically inserted when new article is entered from the backend,
NEW: new configuration settings “Force Existing articles get their tags updated always from article meta keywords at save time” under Tab Tags (default is No)
NEW: Supporting tags containing many words separated by space: There are normally 5 ways to insert a tag after inputting some text: space, comma, enter, selecting an autocomplete option, or defocusing the widget. Now space now longer save the tag: You can enter tags with space as a result.
NEW: inline documentation when adding tag in frontend

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Post will be updated daily till the delivery of version 2.5.4 this week end!

Your ideas are important, feel free to contact me and ask for new features, report bugs, or use the forums.

cedThumbnails 2.5.7 for J2.5 Released

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Tue, 29 May 2012 22:28:25 +0000

CedThumbnails has been updated to version 2.5.7 and contains 4 new features and correct a critical bug for both Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 2.5. For existing users the update will display in the Extensions Manager under Updates. If you do not have this currently installed, you can click the link below and install as normal via the Extensions Manager.

What’s new?

BUG: Highly critical bug that was under some conditions leading to infinite loop and as a result lead to too many open connections from and to your server.

NEW: Better algorithm to clean and remove invalid images,

NEW: Status icon in the administrator panel to help you detecting misconfiguration of your server and in the future help troubleshooting installation issues,

NEW: Specify the image dimensions in the source code, which improves the page score according to Google Page speed. (thanks to Puneet for the idea)

NEW: plugins oriented architecture for rendering and a cleaner controller for the plugin, this will allow me to add new output more easily,

Full list of changes available in GIT commit 99f25840fd3c0f15b864f45c7321cd42820aa2f5

Joomla Mootools and jQuery Compatibility

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:31:31 +0000

In this series of post I will outline some common techniques to help Joomla extensions development.

As you know Joomla is shipped with Mootools library which assign $ also to Ajax. Here is 2 tips that will allow you to use jQuery scripts without any modifications (most of the time you will find tips to assign jQuery to something else than $ and rewrite your scripts)

First it is recommended to include always mootools first to avoid jQuery conflict issues

JHTML::_('behavior.mootools');
$document = JFactory::getDocument();
$document->addScript(JURI::root() . "media/com_cedtag/js/jquery.1.7.2.min.js");

then to run jQuery in noConflict mode. Note that here I do not assign jQuery to any alias.

$document->addScriptDeclaration("jQuery.noConflict();");

Till here, this is what you will find on all Joomla forums, posts over the internet. The last tips is what make the difference!

Instead of using a different alias for the jQuery object (when using noConflict), you can write your jQuery code by wrapping it all in a closure. This can be done in the document.ready function

$script = "jQuery(function($) {
              $();
       });";
$document->addScriptDeclaration($script);

This way you are not force to rewrite your scripts to use another alias (replacing $ with jquery alias for example in all your scripts). This make inclusion of jQuery really easy!

Happy Coding!

cedTag 2.5.3 for J2.5 Released

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:20:00 +0000

CedTag has been updated to version 2.5.3 and correct a lot of bugs and contains some nice features.

CedTag is the continuation of the GPL component Joomla Tags (www.joomlatags.org), Most of the codehas been rewritten according to the new standard of Joomla 2.5, the component has been greatly extended and most bugs have been removed. I will continue removing, refactoring existing codebase, in order to be able to add new features faster.

What’s new

NEW: Auto completion of tags in frontend and backend using jQuery. You can add new tags, search and remove tags without fearing creating duplicates!
NEW: Joomla ACL support,
NEW: Add basic support for themes, still need some css correction for optimal results
NEW: Use confirmation popup windows for all delete/clear operations,
NEW: New option to switch off tags title in front page,
NEW: No white background in simple.css for people loving their black background as default,
NEW: cedTag is now having no warnings/errors in PHP error level E_STRICT
BUG: I cant disable cedTag on front page when i disable it any thing not change...i want show tags only on full article view...
BUG: Working update manager: starting at version 2.5.3 you can update with one click in the update manager.
BUG: Did remove a hack of me for testing -> it was not possible to switch off the add tags button in frontend since i fixcoded to true :-(
BUG: Correct issue in editor xtd plugin blocking users to edit/view articles in frontend

Code cleaning

Rewrite 90% of all query string to use the $query object api of joomla
Did clean the content plugin a lot,

CedTag is used on this site with more than 5000 tags in 2200 articles.

Your ideas are important, feel free to contact me and ask for new features!

cedThumbnails 2.5.5 for J2.5 Released

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:41:50 +0000

CedThumbnails has been updated to version 2.5.5 and contains 1 new features for both Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 2.5. For existing users the update will display in the Extensions Manager under Updates. If you do not have this currently installed, you can click the link below and install as normal via the Extensions Manager.

What’s new?

Video Thumbnail Feature: Google Youtube video are now supported as thumbnails!
Administrator panel
Update server simplified

Full list of changes available in GIT commit aa32de404c928f3bd0fc67d7b9302e236893fd48

cedSmugmug 2.5.2 for J2.5 Released

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:20:28 +0000

CedSmugmug has been updated to version 2.5.2 and correct some bugs and contains some nice features.

CedSmugmug package all you ever need to support Smugmug library in Joomla. It consist in a set of 4 modules, 3 plugins and 3 editor buttons.

What’s new?

Administrator panel with links to manual
Update manager support for Joomla 2.5
Extension submitted to JED

Your ideas are important, feel free to contact me and ask for new features!

You can download the latest version and just upgrade without any loss of data by reinstalling the package

First time installation

Download the latest copy of com_cedSmugmug_j25.zip, from Extensions → Install / Uninstall and install with the fresh copy.

Dropbox Dropquest chapter 1

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Sat, 12 May 2012 20:46:50 +0000

If you want an extra gigabyte of storage on your Dropbox account, the online cloud service invites you to compete in its second annual “Dropquest” online scavenger hunt.

It’s a series of logic puzzles that will make you browse around the Web while also learning about the various features and services that Dropbox offers. Anyone who makes it to the end will get an extra gigabyte, but the first person to complete it wins a grand prize package culminating in a 100 GB account, free for life.

Dropquest Chapter 1

The product of the first two digits is 24.
The fourth digit is half of the second digit.
The sum of the last two digits is the same as the sum of the first and third digits.
The sum of all the digits is 26.
The second digit is greater than the last digit.

if abcde is the password….

a*b=24
d=b/2
e+d=a+c
a+b+c+d+e=26
b>e

Valid solutions are

a=3 b=8 c=6 d=4 e=5
a=1 b=24 c=0 d=12 e=-11
a=2 b=12 c=5 d=6 e=1

The first one is the only one that create a 5 digits password :-))

cedTag 2.5.1 for J2.5 Released

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:11:45 +0000

CedTag has been updated to version 2.5.1 and correct a lot of bugs and contains some nice features.

CedTag is the continuation of the GPL component Joomla Tags (www.joomlatags.org), Most of the code has been rewritten according to the new standard of Joomla 2.5, the component has been greatly extended and most bugs have been removed. I will continue removing, refactoring existing codebase, in order to be able to add new features faster.

CedTag is used on this site with more than 5000 tags in 2200 articles.

Your ideas are important, feel free to contact me and ask for new features!

You can download the latest version and just upgrade without any loss of data by reinstalling the package

What’s new

Compare to Joomla Tags… a lot in fact :-)

SecurityImages 6.0.3 for J2.5 Released

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:52:24 +0000

SecurityImages has been updated to version 6.0.3 and correct 1 bugs for both Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 2.5.

BUG: If enabled for Contacts, it prevents a backend administrator from saving contact details in the backend. It fails with a captcha error. This is because SecurityImages 6.0.2 and previous was enforcing a captcha entry, yet the backend cannot facilitate the display of the captcha.

You can click the link below and install as normal via the Extensions Manager. or use the update manager (updates will display in the Extensions Manager under Updates).

Full list of changes available in GIT commit 18c1209801195e1138d61db87496408c38d2f49f

Oracle Please set ORACLE_UNQNAME to database unique name

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:48:29 +0000

if you encounter this error while starting oracle

/etc/init.d/oraemctl start Starting Oracle EM DB Console:
Environment variable ORACLE_UNQNAME not defined. 
Please set ORACLE_UNQNAME to database unique name. OK

One possible solution is to edit the script

# vi /etc/init.d/oraemctl

and add the following code in blue

Apache Maven copy local file to a remote server server using SSH

cedric.walter@gmail.com (Administrator) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:20:26 +0000

I will show you in an Apache Maven configuration file how to copy files to server each time the package phase is executed.

Solution with Ant SCP task

This snippet of code is a ready to use code that make use of Apache Ant task scp, Just put this snippet of code in your Maven module where the assembly is executed or anywhere else to push all tar.gz files to a server just run a maven mvn package, you can add as many ant task and push to many server the same file during the reactor build.

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
    <id>server-copy</id>
    <goals>
        <goal>run</goal>
    </goals>
    <phase>package</phase>
    <configuration>
        <target>
            <echo message="Push to server/home/"/>
            <scp trust="yes"
                todir="user:password@server:/home/">
                <fileset dir="${basedir}/target">
                    <include name="**/*.tar.gz"/>
                </fileset>
            </scp>
        </target>
    </configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
    <artifactId>ant-jsch</artifactId>
    <version>1.8.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>

Solution with maven-deploy-plugin

The maven-deploy-plugin allows you to configure the deploy phase to deploy to a server using scp. There is a page in the documentation that describes how it can be done.

Deploy maven artifact using Maven Wagon SCP

Another alternative would be to use Maven Wagon SCP like described in this post for example