Due to my new appartement I have a new ISP, like all of them reroutes every connection on port 25 to it’s own smtp server. This is fine if you use their e-mail service but not if you are a domain owner or small company that just wants to use it’s own mail server. Today I fixed this issue in 10 minutes using rinetd on a server of mine, it redirects tcp traffic from one port to another, bypassing port 25 until I’m past my isp network.
The setup is quite simple:
- apt-get install rinetd
- note down, server ip and destination ip(mail server)
- add your redirect line according to format
- restart rinetd
- all, done.
This is of course if you are running ubuntu or debian on your server, but for other distros it should be almost as simple.
It’s just fun to code for the new Joomla! API and I like linking and dynamic content as well as stats. So after catching up on opensourcecommunity.org I saw their popuri.us widget and though it would be nice for a Joomla! site as well.
Stats, being covered by popuri.us module, it will display the widget in your module position of choice and has a option to link to popuri.us to get more stats. The widget will only show your Google pagerank, Alexa rankin, yahoo back linking and Technorati linking blogs.
Project Page: mod_popurius
Dynamic content, we get from del.icio.us. I have a similar wordpress plugin ready for my blog update, but it would be nice on a Joomla! site as well, so for everybody to enjoy get it. It will display your bookmarks with/without tags and/or long description.
Project Page: mod_delicious
I have written another small plugin, Google Verify, it place your verification meta tag on your Joomla! website without needing to modify your website template(s). So you don’t have to manually update every template or new template on your site.
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After joining Project Honey Pot and their release of http:BL, I wanted it to use on my blog and Joomla! sites, for wordpress there was already a plugin that does the job, but couldn’t find any for Joomla! so I made a system plugin.
http:BL System Plugin allows you to verify IP addresses of clients connecting to your website against the Project Honey Pot database. It checks whether your visitor is an email harvester, a comment spammer or any other malicious client. Communication with verification server is done via DNS request mechanism.
Now, thanks to http:BL System Plugin any potentially harmful clients are denied from accessing your website and therefore abusing it.
Project page
I was busy with some Joomla! modules to help navigate my site better, but due to a bug in Joomla! 1.5 API, which is okay as it’s still no stable release. Only the search module is ready. You can place it on your searh page to give some extra guidance to your visitors by showing what others have searched.
I’m also working on most popular section/category and content with some extra options, but they have to wait until the bugs are solved.
Most searched: Project page
The dust is settling and I feel quite at home in my new place and Joomla! 1.5 is getting closer and closer. It’s time to get busy again with some projects. Languages files are different and my last approach for multi languages support was not a very good one. So first in business I have nearly completed a translation program which fetches the current svn languages files and lets anybody submit a translation for any of my projects. It’s based on the roundcube translator but modified for Joomla! languages ini files.
Hope it’s ease of use and the integration with svn will draw some translators.
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I have returned the keys from my previous home and the new place is home. Hopefully after time consuming task, the little tasks like unpacking the last things and finishing touches , I will have more free time todo coding and other fun things.
I have, as promised, some for/during/after pictures, with the after pictures being work in progress. You can view them at family gallery.
I had some interesting spam messages today. Well not interesting enough to leave them on my site but in their mark-up. Every single link had the attribute rel=”nofollow” defeating the biggest goal the spammer is after, link credit. The only thing he accomplished was me reading the comment and give me a laugh.
Finally, after several months searching for a good apartment, we got one.
It’s a nice souterrain apartment, luckily backyard is facing south, giving us a bright living room. We still have to wait until the first of may to get the keys but then we can start painting and start arguing about the merging of our furniture.
I have written 2 new plugins for Joomla! 1.5 today, Widont and Nofollow.
Widont based on a excellent plugin by Shaun Inman for wordpress, but I needed it’s functionality for Joomla! so ported it for Joomla! 1.5. It makes sure your content title or heading don’t have a single word on the next line.
The second is plugin just makes sure every outgoing link in your content has the link attribute “nofollow”. Some Joomla! sites might needed it with a lot of user generated content.
Both can be found on the Joomla! project page, enjoy.