Today I'm proud to anounce that joomlacomment 4.0 beta1 is finally ready to be downloaded!
What is new?

While working on beta1 I decided, that it is time to add a feature that several people requested.

This blog is intended to all of you using !joomlacomment 4.0 alpha3. I was really dissapointed to read the editor's comment on JED.

2 months ago I released !joomlacomment 4.0 alpha3 and said that we could expect beta1 within one week. Well as you can see, things didn't go quite this way :). However, there are good news!

Ok, guys! Today I fixed a bug that we had with time display and the Offset. The bugfix is added to the next release :)

That was my first Joomladay ever :). I must say: I was impressed!. The guys that organized this event did a very good job!

Several weeks ago Internet Explorer 8 came to life. 9 years ago the disaster Internet Explorer 6 was released. Believe it or not IE6 is not dead.

30% of all users that visit compojoom.com are using Internet Explorer. 25% of these 30% are using IE6. That are 2000 people per month that are experiencing poor security and a terrible user experience with this browser.

Our duty as developers is to educate the users and offer them the best possible web experience! Since I don't want to repeat what other people say I will just give you some important links to read:

Today I had a challenge. We have 2GB typo3 database, that actually had to be utf8, but due to some misconfiguration all international symbols where stored wrong. (with latin collation). Here is a little bit more information and here is exactly what our problem was:

Bonjours mes amis! Few people know it, but yes: I can speak French :) Well, not exactly - I can read and understand when other people speak, but opening my mouth to say something is nearly impossible anymore. (writing is also impossible :D)