Nekkid Ninjas

Our German community is growing very well since the past few months. So we decided to translate all our extensions. We currently can offer three of our extensions with German language support and as we Germans say: "All good things are three."

1. NinjACL for Joomla! 1.0.15 (published Aug. 13th, 2008)
2. Ninja Super Submit 1.0 RC3 (published Nov. 9th, 2008)
3. Ninja SUper sIFR 1.1.0 (published Nov. 8th, 2008)

Two of them are recently published minor updates that contain some bug fixes, but while fixing them I directly translated their language packs. NinjACL was initially published with German language support, because I am the developer of it. But unfortunately I had no time for translating our other software. Now that I am the first full time Ninja, we have many more resources.

Due to the fact that our German community at NinjaForge is still growing, we also talked about German sub forums for support, but were not sure if that would really be necessary. So feedback from our German members on this topic would be very appreciated. (Gerne auch in deutsch. )

At the time I think that at least 1 extension per week will be translated to German language, but can't promise that. What I can promise is at least one per month!

OK, that's all for now.

Best Regards
Uwe Walter

turifungia, one of our community members kindly submitted an access permission vulnerability in Ninja Super Submit. The component did not sanitize the passed in variable Itemid.

This is not really a security leak, because the administrator of a site can configure, if a user group is permitted to automatic publish submitted content. But if the component menu entry was set to any user group above 'Public', the component did not check permissions. While fixing this issue I also added NinjACL compatibility.

We've to thank you very much for your report turifungia.

Notes:
Users who already have the release candidate 2 installed, only need to replace one file.

~/components/com_super_submit/super_submit.php

All other versions have to be reinstalled, because in RC2 have been made important changes!

Best Regards
Uwe Walter

Time for a News Post for a good cause.


David Towers from over at Good Web Practices let me know recently about a great initiative they kicked off. In order to help out with Breast Cancer Awareness Day they helped the team at Body Health Debate develop and release a new Breast Cancer Awareness RSS Syndicator.

The team at Good Web Practices haves said "This RSS syndicator is a native Joomla 1.5 extension and we consider it
to be the best way of creating great looking RSS feeds in Joomla 1.5", and after checking it out I think you will all agree. So grab a copy and check it out now.

This project was just a simple conversion for a client initially.
The job was to make the Moolet 3D Image Carousel to run native on Joomla 1.5.
But we got carried away because we wont settle with a module before it's as good as it can possibly get.

A few people have been wondering where I am recently.

Just to let you know that I haven't fallen under a truck but have instead been off getting married and looking after my visiting family.

I will fill in some more details later, but wanted to show off this great picture from Chris our artists. It was his wedding present to my wife and I.