Category: Kev’s Blog

If you use Mambo CMS for a website and haven’t updated recently, now might be the time to consider upgrading and patching.

This post talks about a vulnerability that has been found in the server. I just had first-hand experience of someone hacking one of my sites that uses Mambo. It seems that the security hole allows someone to get access to and overwrite the configuration.php file with their own HTML content, and have this page displayed instead of the Mambo-based site.

This is the first issue that I’ve had with Mambo up until this point.

Sony has announced May 8 as the date of the pre-E3 conference press conference to reveal details of the much awaited PS3 console.

Hopefully details of price and initial games line up will be announced, plus final details of what we can expect to get in the box when it ships in November. There are still some details about the console that are up in the air. I am most interested in what is going to be shipped on the integral 60GB preinstalled with Linux – does this mean I can install additional software on the machine? What other software will come on the box? Is it going to be a media server type device as rumoured?

Newspaper Globe and Mail have an interview with James Gosling on their site. Read it in full here.

So far I have been very impressed with the EJB3.0 support in Netbeans 5.5. The more I use it the more I am impressed. I am having a couple of migration issues from Eclipse, like hotkey shortcuts I used regularly in Eclipse and having to find the equivalent, but on the whole, Netbeans 5.x is a very slick IDE.

I have been prototyping a EJB3.0 app and decided to give the ‘JSF pages from Entity Beans’ option a try. Wow, what a cool feature. I haven’t got into JSF yet, so this will give me a headstart. Select the Entity Bean from the wizard and it generates standard CRUD page functionality for the bean. Very cool.

I’m having a couple of issues deploying the app to JBoss 4.0.4RC1 so far though, and since I’m not familiar with JSF yet, I’m stuck for how to fix it, so I logged a bug on the NetBeans site.

74383: JSF from Entity Beans – does not deploy to JBoss – I’m getting a deployment error when my app is deployed to 4.0.4RC1. Not sure what this is about.