http://briask.com/blog Briask, learning PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Joomla! Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:52:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Installed Win 7  recently on my newly built box, loving it! So much better than VISTA and an excellent upgrade from XP Pro which I had on my main box So I was in the process of moving all my tools, code etc over to the shiny new box  when ... http://briask.com/blog/2009/12/05/port-80-wampserver-xampp/ There has been a number of questions to me, along with a few posts wondering how to get ImageSlideShow to appear in certain locations. Typically the question has bee raised because the particular template being used does not have the capability to publish modules at the required postion. How do you ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/10/23/how-to-edit-a-joomla-template-to-publish-a-module-in-a-new-position/ Have to say I've never installed Joomla! 1.0.x, never been asked to support it and now never will... The Joomla! team have announced end of life for J! 1.0.x. July 22 2009 will see the end of official support for that version. So if you are on J1.0.x and it does ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/10/16/end-of-life-announced-for-joomla-10x/ http://briask.com/blog/2008/10/13/interesting-point-from-xkcd/ Up until now I've been happy to provide support by either responding to comments or directly emailing people but have found with that I'm answering some of the same questions numerous times. So I've introduced a forum at http://forum.briask.com. Please post your questions, issues, suggestions on that forum so that I can share ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/10/02/change-in-support-method/ Have had a numbers of question recently asking how to have multiple copies of ImageSlideShow displaying on one page. To do this follow the instructions below, these would also apply to any other Joomla! module (assuming that the module was written in a manner that allows multiple copies) 1. Install ImageSlideShow ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/09/17/how-to-publish-multiple-copies-of-imageslideshow/ Following on from a number of comments left here on the website and some direct email, including helpful hints and tips, I've a minor update to ImageSlideShow to share. It is a minor update but an important one. Unfortunately due to the way ISS has to work and my limited knowledge ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/07/24/minor-update-to-imageslideshow/ My long suffering Dell is giving up the ghost. The main hard drive has packed up and left... the backup thankfully is alive but is not bootable so kinda hard to actually make any use of it... It'll be a while before I can get a replacement and get my ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/07/14/ok-computer-just-start-already/ Since coming back from vacation I've been playing around with some ideas on what I should spend some time on next. ImageSlideShow probably needs a minor update to round out its functionality and allow people to tweak more to their liking. Might also review the code as it was pretty much ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/06/30/what-a-to-do-about-what-to-do/ Not the music from the game Final Fantasy but the band? Final Fantasy or probably more correctly Owen Pallett . Love the simplicity of his music helps me chill out when having a stressful day. If you recognise the sound it might be down to his work with Arcade Fire, another favourite ... http://briask.com/blog/2008/06/24/final-fantasy-take-a-listen/