Hi,

I just finished updating my "Bot link" plugin. For the occasion it even got a new name: Pluglink! I thought it was appropriate since Pluglink is now designed for Joomla! 1.5.x (native), while Bot link was meant for Joomla! 1.0.x...

No new features except the platform switching, but the code was cleaned a little and some functions were optimized for better perfomances...

Please do not hesitate to give me any feedback through the contact form or the comment system.

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It has been quite some time since I have written my last post.

I thought I would make a little advertisement for a small tool that I recently bought. I was in desperate need of a backup/syncing program for Windows that would function over a variety of protocols and locations. After comparing the specifications of many different pieces of software out there, after trying several of them, only one survived my very stringent test, Allway Sync!

It took me a while but it's there. I just released version 0.2.0 of my tiny Joomla! plugin, Bot link, which places automatically links around occurrences of any chosen piece of text or any regular expression...

The main new feature of 0.2.0 is that Bot link recognizes and avoids HTML markups and translate the special characters like & or '... This is especially useful when one needs to link small keywords which might also be found inside any markup...

I'm pleased to announce the "release" of my first Joomla! extension, a small plugin named "Bot link". It automatically places links around pieces of text in Joomla! articles. It may be used with a simple text expression or more advanced perl regular expressions. An additional nice feature is that It does not introduce links in places already containing one...

I hope you will all enjoy it!

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My blog is based on Joomla 1.0.13 and uses the OpenSEF component to generate search engines friendly urls. One great OpenSEF feature is its use of the menus to generate nice directory-like urls for the main components of one's website. For example, http://www.moleculargeek.net/index.php? option=com_docman&Itemid=42 may become (this may be customized) http://www.moleculargeek.net/downloads/ as the menu item pointing to the component is named downloads. This works out of the box except for a tiny bug for which I just found a workaround...