Blog Entries

So Um Yeah...

info@joomlamafia.com — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:00:00 +0100

This is something I just had to do and I don't want to really but its important to me and has nothing to do with Joomla or websites or computers.

It seems the only two people I hear about on TV is Obama and McCain. I think both suck. I will not vote for either one. Id write in bill cosby or Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or even better yet lets make Chris Rocks movies come true.

This site isn't a political podium. This is the first time I have ever done anything [...]

Robots.txt Update

info@joomlamafia.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:00:00 +0100

So its been awhile since we did a blog entry, Mainly because we have been studying SEO and taking full advantage of your robots.txt to help get better results.

It came to our attention because we had all the SEF turned on, Google still was indexing none SEF urls. [...]

What is Page Rank? Why is it important?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

As quoted by Google:

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make oth [...]

Joomla! Day 2008 San Francisco (Mountain View) California

your...@email.com — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

When: September 20th 2008
Where: Google HQ Mountain View, Ca
Who: Wilco Head Programmer of Joomla, Possible Anthony Ferrara, Working on getting a club template outfit to come and of course, I will be their. Will you? Last year all spots where filled up in 2 days and this time its only going to be 1 day.

LinuxWorld 2008 San Francisco

your...@email.com — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

This blog entry is a little late, But JoomlaMafia.com was at the joomla booth helping out.

We meet up and drank beer with Nathan Mallamace, Anthony Ferrara, Ryan Ozimek, Ron Severdia and Louis Landry

I didn't do a lot of walking around but SUSE was a few booths down and was giving away a really nice flash light, Silicon Mechanics being a 'green' company instead of handing out papers gave away 512mb flash drives with less then 5mb of info on them it appeared. GoGrid gave away [...]

reCaptcha Updated for Joomla 1.5.5

your...@email.com — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Today we have released a new version of our reCaptcha core hack, In the key.php it supports your selection of color schemes. Red, Blackglass or White.

Just download the new file and install it like you did our previous release or follow the pdf guide. We didn't update the guide about the new key.php features since its documented in the file itself.

Growing Pains

your...@email.com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

With the increase of traffic bringing our dedicated server down 3 times in less then 2 hours, two days in a row. We have moved our site to a bigger... Much bigger system..

Old Dedicated Server
It was about 4 years old.
P4 2.0gh
1024 MB of PC133
IDE hard drives (dual 80 gigs)
100mbit port

Out with the old In with the New
Intel Dual Xeon Clovertown Quad-Core LV 5310 1.6GHz 8MB Cache
6144 MB of DDR2 Ram
RAID10 Controller 4x500GB SATA II ha [...]

Romanian

your...@email.com — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

We will soon have this site available in Romanian. My friend Florin is going to start tranlating all the pages for me. If anyone else wants to help translate pages into other language feel free to contact me.

Joomla 1.5.5

your...@email.com — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

I got a birthday gift today, Joomla 1.5.5 was released and I already got the site upgraded.

I've put so much money into advertising this site and spent this weekend in the bay area working on clients hotels spent money on gas and supplies and food that I am broke because all of the owners left town and haven't paid me. I was wanting to go to Dublin California to the IMAX theater to see the new batman movie. Maybe some other time I guess.

I will probable spend th [...]

reCaptcha Now Available on Joomla 1.5

your...@email.com — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

We did it, we made reCaptcha work on 1.5, You can download it later today from our site.

To learn more about reCaptcha visit http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html

JoomlaMafia.com Puts a Hit on Diabetes

your...@email.com — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

So today we got a email from a man named Toma Grubb asking for JoomlaMafia team to help his cause / mission out and become his sites management team. He host his site with SingleHop.com They seem like a really good hosting company.

So Me as well as Brian (one of the staff at JoomlaMafia.com) Have had family members [...]

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