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Pete Coutts has been an active contributor in the Joomla! community since 2003 when he first started using Mambo. In this piece, he shares the latest advancements from the Translations Team Workgroup. If you are interested in helping translate Joomla! into your language, this is the team to get involved with.Thanks, Pete, for the update!

Now, let's get some good points out.

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We're pleased to announce the release of JoomlaCommunity.eu, the place where Dutch Joomla! related news, blogs, documentation, translations of Joomla! core and 3rd party extensions and a forum can be found.

I stumbled upon a post in the Joomla forums about speculation surrounding the mysterious origin of ID 62 for the default Joomla Super Administrator.

Fortunately, and many years ago, I pulled down all the historic downloads for Mambo (from which Joomla spooned, I mean spawned) and decided to look through them. The earliest version of Mambo I had was from 30 April 2001 being what I think was version 3.0.0. The install script for this version has the default user ID set to 1. This is the same for the next five versions but in version 3.0.6, released around 27 July 2001 we see the first introduction of the now famous ID 62 for the Super Admin. Version 3.0.7, released in November 2001, and then the first of the 4.0 series, released a year later in November 2002, carried on the tradition (I joined the project in February of the following year).

These days, to say that security isn't a hot topic is to say that the economy isn't either. In a recent post, I remarked on how active the Joomla Security Forum is and how a few months ago, the Joomla Project created a new security team (the JSST). It's hard to call it the "topic du jour" because it's something we should all be thinking about on a regular basis, not just a passing fad. It is in this environment, I received a copy of Tom Canavan's second Joomla book titled Joomla Web Security.

When I first wrote the Podcast Suite, the idea of podcasting was still pretty new. I started by taking com_syndicate and adding enclosures to the RSS feed generator, then added a backend to help people manage the files. My idea was to keep the code very simple: the first version of the suite didn't even have a database table to keep track of the episodes. Everything was (and still is) built to be a thin layer on top of articles.