Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and his digital playground.

TroubleshootingWiki.org is a new website designed to provide users with comprehensive, free guides on software troubleshooting. This site intends to help users eliminate the potential problems that might arise while working with various applications.

It is often difficult finding a resource that is focused on providing quality, relevant, and free information on software troubleshooting at one central location. Launched initially with over 20 tutorials covering different Content Management Systems and other software, TroubleshootingWiki.org is expected to grow into an exhaustive troubleshooting resource where users are able to add their own tips and tricks.
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It's happen before and it's happen again... Another fork of Mambo CMS.

Couple of years ago, there was a split due to some disagreements between the Mambo committee and core developers, and the core developers along with some of the working group members decided to walk out on the Mambo project. A week later they formed their own open source project named Joomla. Joomla is a fork of Mambo as it uses the existing codebase from the Mambo CMS.  read more »

Via Dries Buytaert, Rob Purdie is announcing the relaunch of Amnesty International’s site. The new site was built using Drupal and Alfresco. It is interesting to see how many people have commented on both posts who are craving more information about Drupal and Alfresco integration and it is no wonder. As I mentioned last year in this post, Optaros sees the two offerings as highly complementary–they aren’t (yet) competitors.  read more »

After releasing Joomla! 1.5 stable we have discovered a high priority security issue. The vulnerability has been discovered in XML-RPC in combination with the blogger API. There is a security problem in this code that makes it possible to alter the articles on your site (including removal). This problems has been fixed currently by members of the development team and the Joomla! bug squad, solution is now available from Subversion. So what do you need to do until we release Joomla! 1.5.1?

Joomla!  read more »

I recieved an email from a user requesting for a Wordpress RSS Footer plugin by Joost De Valk to be ported to Joomla!

After having installed it on Wordpress to see what it was, it seems to be just a simple insert of a line of text that appears on each feed's description. So it didn't seem to be of any significant to port the plugin. Also, it would only require one line of code to be added.  read more »

I've been planning on migrating a site that was using Wordpress to Drupal so started looking around the web. And damn! is there anything that isn't available for Drupal... :)

This was what i came across:  read more »

• Migrate from Wordpress to Drupal (4.7 - 5.x)
• Migrate from Joomla to Drupal (4.7 - 5.x)

WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Get 2.3.2 now to protect your blog from these disclosures.

Download:Wordpress 2.3.2

It's finally here, Elgg 0.9!

A big thanks to everybody for testing the 0.9 release candidates, your input was invaluable for tracking down some major and minor issues. We're quite proud of this first community release, which includes a large number of enhancements, fixes and new features. Especially the improved installer and configuration manager will help make installing Elgg a breeze - thanks go to Rolando for this one. Enjoy this release, don't forget to read the install document and as ever, please report any issues you may have in the tracker. Happy Christmas!

Download: Elgg 0.9