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	<title>Phil Taylor - Joomla Expert - Blog</title>
	<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com</link>
	<description>Posts about Joomla Extensions, Joomla Forms, Joomal everything - All Free</description>
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		<title>New secure email sending feature in Joomla 1.5.12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great new feature in Joomla 1.5.12 that allows you to send email over SSL SMTP breaks compatibility with our extensions (If you want to use that feature).
We are aware of the issue and will release new versions that can take advantage of this new feature as soon as we can. For the time being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/07/02/new-secure-email-sending-feature-in-joomla-1-5-12/</link>
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		<title>Want to have EVERYTHING I have created and will create?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phil Taylor is almost a qualified Pilot!!
On April 17th I flew an airplane without an instructor for the first time, since then I have done it again twice! read all about it here:  Not a bird or a plane &#8211; just Phil  

Now I am looking to complete my training as quick as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/06/03/want-to-have-everything-i-have-created-and-will-create/</link>
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		<title>Announcing the all new myJoomla.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce this bank holiday weekend the immediate availability of our new download and service site at https://secure.myJoomla.com
We have served from the myJoomla.com domain for several years now the downloads that you purchase from us, and we are in the process of releasing some amazing new services and products that will rely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/05/24/announcing-the-all-new-myjoomla-com/</link>
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		<title>VAT added to all purchases in line with the UK Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following our return to trading through our UK company I am sorry to report that in line with UK law VAT will now be added to all transactions at the standard rate of 15% currently.  This will be applied to EU Countries only and will be added during your paypal checkout. USA Customers and non-EU [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/05/21/vat-added-to-all-purchases-in-line-with-the-uk-law/</link>
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		<title>Moving House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PLEASE BE PATIENT if you have sent me and email &#8211; and refrain from sending me abusive messages&#8230;.. you know who you are&#8230;
I am moving house at the moment, and only have mobile broadband access and my main PC is in a box! I dont have all the tools I need to do my job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/05/19/moving-house/</link>
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		<title>Important Changes To Our Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I write to inform you of some important changes to your relationship with my services.  As many of you know, a few years ago we moved to Jersey, Channel Islands to be closer to my wifes family.  At that time we started to trade through &#8220;Blue Flame IT (Jersey) Ltd.&#8221; a Jersey registered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/05/14/important-changes-to-our-services/</link>
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		<title>Ultimate Top 10 Joomla Extension Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Announcing the Ultimate Top 10 Joomla Extension competition sponsored by Joomlashack. 
&#34;What are your favorite Joomla extensions?&#34;
You might have heard of UserVoice. Its a great web 2.0 application where people can vote on things. Everyone gets a set number of votes, in this case 10. You guessed it, we are going to ask you to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/05/07/ultimate-top-10-joomla-extension-competition/</link>
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		<title>Is it a bird, is it superman, NO its just Phil FLYING SOLO</title>
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Thats right, while you were all working hard today, I was undertaking my first ever SOLO flight over the island of Jersey.
After a false start in the morning where we canceled due to fog, the weather dramatically improved to give clear skys and light winds.  At 4pm my instructor and I took off for dual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/04/17/is-it-a-bird-is-it-superman-no-its-just-phil-flying-solo/</link>
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		<title>Thunderbird XUL Developer required</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am looking for a Thunderbird XUL Developer for a custom job &#8211; would only take a few hours, but thats a few hours I can pay for rather than do myself  
If you are capable of developing in XUL for Thunderbird then please contact me &#8211; serious developers only please, my requirements will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/04/11/thunderbird-xul-developer-required/</link>
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		<title>Import ANY html form into Blue Flame Forms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well as expected, Brian beat me to expanding on the newest exciting feature (large video)of Blue Flame Forms &#8211; the ability to take the HTML for ANY FORM and import it to Blue Flame Forms and apply our validation rules and post-submit processing actions. 
(You know, there is a competing forms extension for Joomla that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/04/09/import-any-html-form-into-blue-flame-forms/</link>
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		<title>Massive Update To Blue Flame Forms Now Available.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the time of writing we are pleased to announce a major release of Blue Flame Forms with YET MORE NEW FEATURES!
AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FOR EXISTING CUSTOMERS RIGHT NOW!

The NEW FEATURES include, but are not limited to:

The ability to paste in ANY form HTML code, and have bfForms parse and setup the fields so that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/04/08/massive-update-to-blue-flame-forms-now-available/</link>
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		<title>Internet Explorer Issues with yesterdays release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears that the release yesterday of the new versions of Tags, KB, and forms created issues for Internet Explorer users &#8211; this problem was restricted to the admin console and not the public facing parts of the applications.
The root cause was the code that we created to create JCE Compatibiltiy required a javascript &#8220;for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/04/01/internet-explorer-issues-with-yesterdays-release/</link>
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		<title>Who Moved My Cheese???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dont often do book reviews, this is not so much a book review as a testimony.  This is a plug for a book I have had on my shelf for a long time, but I recently sat on the loo and read (does any one else do that &#8211; dont share!)
With all the doom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/31/who-moved-my-cheese/</link>
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		<title>You MUST run the latest version of Joomla To Use Our Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seams I have upset a few customers   Sorry about that  
In Forms, Tags and KB, a check is made to see what Joomla Version you are running, If this is not the latest (currently 1.0.15 and 1.5.10) then you are not able to use the admin functions of our extensions! This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/30/you-must-run-the-latest-version-of-joomla-to-use-our-stuff/</link>
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		<title>JCE Editor Compatibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that from bfFramework 3.1 you can now use the JCE Editor with our extensions! (KB, Tags and Forms)
At the moment only bfForms is shipping with bfFramework 3.x but as soon as I get a chance I&#8217;ll repackage KB and Tags so that we can update those too.
This has been a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/27/jce-editor-compatibility/</link>
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		<title>Doh! Form Submitters IP Address is Blacklisted!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the words of Homer Simpson &#8211; Doh!!!
The latest version of bfForms might mean your visitors get &#8220;Error &#8211; Form Submitters IP Address is Blacklisted!!&#8221; if their IP Address is in the zend.spamhaus.org database &#8211; which should have never been in our forms extension, when we compiled the distribution for tonights release (v0.2.83 is affected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/24/doh-form-submitters-ip-address-is-blacklisted/</link>
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		<title>Add a form into your Joomla content or a form in a module</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Features Highlight: bfForms for Joomla 1.5.x &#8211; all versions over v0.2.83
I&#8217;m going to try and blog on some of the new features available in bfForms over the next few days. There are LOADS of new things to try out.
The number ONE feature requested, without doubt, was the ability to embed forms into Joomla Content [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/23/add-a-form-into-your-joomla-content-or-a-form-in-a-module/</link>
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		<title>Blue Flame Forms For Joomla 1.5.x Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce the availability of bfForms for Joomla 1.5.x v0.2.83.
This is an updated version of bfForms with added POWER and even greater SIMPLICITY.
Existing customers get this update FOR FREE, New customers can check out the on line demo with a single click and then download their own copy. bfForms is a premium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/23/blue-flame-forms-for-joomla-15x-released/</link>
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		<title>bfForms External IP Ban Checking Very Slow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are receiving many emails from customers reporting that their forms are failing  submission today &#8211; so we have been investigating&#8230;
The reason behind this, is that by default we enable IP Blacklist checking to three external services, this checks the IP Address of the form submitter against three major online realtime IP Black lists.
It now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/17/bfforms-external-ip-ban-checking-very-slow/</link>
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		<title>Hard drive failure on my workstation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m suffering from a total hard drive failure on my main PC.  Lucky I always have backups, but I now need to reinstall the operating system from scratch and get up to speed again.
Please bear with me as I do this, I&#8217;ll attempt to catch up as soon as I can.
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		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/17/hard-drive-failure-on-my-workstation/</link>
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		<title>cPanel Servers report PHP5 but Joomla Reports PHP4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just because cPanel says php5 doesnt mean your Joomla website site is using php5   cPanel allows the server owner to install PHP4 and PHP5 and to set either to default.
Some server admins still have PHP4 as default, which means to use php5 you need to add this line to your .htaccess file:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/16/cpanel-servers-report-php5-but-joomla-reports-php4/</link>
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		<title>Server Move Complete &#8211; All Systems Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to say that all our sites are now running on the new hardware and are all live and working  
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		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/16/server-move-complete-all-systems-online/</link>
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		<title>Moving Servers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to let you know I&#8217;m busy moving my sites from our 2008 server to our more powerful 2009 server (yes we do this yearly! The costs of the 2008 server spiraled with the US$/GBP£ exchange rate and it was cheaper to get a better, more powerful server!!!  We use dedicated unmanaged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/14/moving-servers/</link>
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		<title>GPG Key Expired and Replaced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears that while I was on holiday in New York my GPG Encryption key expired meaning that all attempts to submit site details securely using our online forms failed! If you have tried to use the following form in the last 4 days then you need to resubmit your details as they were not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/03/11/gpg-key-expired-and-replaced/</link>
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		<title>Blue Flame Forms Beta &#8211; Now available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now Available For Existing Customers Only
The long awaited beta version of bfForms, the next generation forms extension
I am pleased to announce the beta program for the next version of our forms application.
Firstly, we are rebranding Joomla Forms to become Blue Flame Forms (bfForms). This is primarily because of the trademark of the word Joomla! in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/02/26/blue-flame-forms-beta-now-available/</link>
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		<title>bfForms Online Demo Upgraded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know there are some of you jumping at the bit to get your hands on bfForms Beta  
Here is something to whet your appetite.
I have just upgraded the online demo site with a snapshot build of the new version:
http://demo.joomla-forms.com/
http://demo.joomla-forms.com/administrator/index.php
Have Fun!
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		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/02/26/bfforms-online-demo-upgraded/</link>
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		<title>Joomla Forms Release Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its almost here&#8230;  
Firstly, we are rebranding Joomla Forms to become Blue Flame Forms (bfForms). This is primarily because of the trademark of the word Joomla! in certain countries.
As already blogged, I&#8217;m on holiday next week, and so I wanted to leave something for you to play with while I am away.
There have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/02/26/joomla-forms-release-plans/</link>
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		<title>On Holiday 2-10 March 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to inform that I&#8217;ll be on annual leave from 2-10 March 2009 as I take my wife and daughter to New York (our first long haul trip since our daughter was born!).
You can still purchase products while I am away and have automatic, instant fulfillment of your order.  I&#8217;ll also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/02/24/on-holiday-2-10-march-2009/</link>
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		<title>The things we do when we are not PHP coding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can see a news report of my RNLI Activites at the ChannelTV Website -  Here is a still shot pointing out me, I appear in other places in the video, well my legs and back do, I tried to stay out of the shots 


Watch the full video
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		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/02/19/the-things-we-do-when-we-are-not-php-coding/</link>
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		<title>FireGPG Updated, with support for GPG Smartcards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I awoke to a brand new day to have my life changed by a tiny point release of a Firefox extension&#8230;. ok a little exageration but wow this update was exactly what I had been waiting for.
FireGPG is a firefox extension that you can use to encrypt, sign, decrypt and generally use all GPG [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.phil-taylor.com/2009/02/16/firegpg-updated-with-support-for-gpg-smartcards/</link>
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