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A report by Check Point Research has been brought to our attention relating to a security vulnerability that was patched back in December 2015. This report has also been picked up by Threat Post. Both reports contain a great deal of inaccuracies and intimate that the vulnerability detailed is a current one. This statement serves to clarify the facts surrounding this issue. Furthermore we would like to assure our user base that, much as these posts attempt to state that this is a current issue, the truth of the matter is far from that.

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3D printer manufacturer Markforged has raised another round of funding. Summit Partners is leading the $82 million Series D round with Matrix Partners, Microsoft’s Venture Arm, Next47 and Porsche SE also participating. When you think about 3D printers, chances are you’re thinking about microwave-sized, plastic-focused 3D printers for hobbyists. Markforged is basically at the other […]

Tandem Bank, the U.K. challenger bank, is launching a new savings account powered by its “Autosavings” feature designed to make it easier to save. Paying 0.5 percent interest, the Tandem Autosavings account is effectively a flexible savings bank account built on top of Tandem’s existing bank account aggregation app and the various credit cards it […]

Google is widely expected to be handed a third antitrust fine in Europe this week, with reports suggesting the European Commission’s decision in its long-running investigation of AdSense could land later today. Right on cue the search giant has PRed another Android product tweak — which it bills as “supporting choice and competition in Europe”. […]

Opera had a couple of tumultuous years behind it, but it looks like the Norwegian browser maker (now in the hands of a Chinese consortium) is finding its stride again and refocusing its efforts on its flagship mobile and desktop browsers. Before the sale, Opera offered a useful stand-alone and built-in VPN service. Somehow, the […]

Welcome Pickups, an Athens-based startup offering a range of “in-destination” travel services from the point of pickup onwards, has raised €3.3 million in Series A funding. The backing comes from VentureFriends, Market One Capital, Howzat, Jabbar, and Openfund. Also participating is Alejandro Artacho, who founded Spotahome, and John Tsioris, founder of Instashop. Launched in Greece […]

Tencent Music Entertainment Group, the Chinese answer to Spotify that Tencent spun out and floated on the New York Stock Exchange in December, reported a net loss of 876 million yuan ($127 million) in its first set of quarterly results since going public. The loss, which TME forecasted in its prospectus filed ahead of the IPO, […]

Tim Armstrong will leave Verizon Communications with an awards and benefits package worth more than $60 million. The Wall Street Journal calculated the total amount based on a securities filing from last Monday by combining Armstrong’s compensation in 2018, severance and a special incentive package he was given by Verizon when it acquired AOL in […]

Python's dict has a get method. It'll either return an existing value for a given key or return a default value if the key is not in the dict. It's very tempting to write code like val = d.get(key, Object()), however you need to think about the performance implications. Since function arguments are evaluated before calling the function, this means the a new Object will be created regardless if it's in the dict or not. Let's see this affects performance. get_default will create new Point every time and get_none will create only if there's no such object, it works since or evaluate it's arguments lazily and will stop once the first one is True.First we'll try with a missing key:In [1]: %run default_vs_none.py                                     In [2]: locations = {}  # name -> Location In [3]: %timeit get_default(locations, 'carmen')384 ns ± 2.56 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)In [4]: %timeit get_none(locations, 'carmen')394 ns ± 1.61 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)Not so much difference. However if the key exists:In [5]: locations['carmen'] = Location(7, 3)In [6]: %timeit get_default(locations, 'carmen')                 377 ns ± 1.84 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)In [7]: %timeit get_none(locations, 'carmen')135 ns ± 0.108 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)We get much faster results.

A cheat sheet for sets in Python. What is the 'set' datatype in Python? How is it used?Jump to the cheat sheetKey pointsUnlike lists and tuples, a set is an unordered collection of unique elements.A set can be created using the set() constructor. It takes an optional iterable as input.Sets with some elements can also be initialized using the curly braces (e.g., {1, 2, 3}).However, curly braces cannot be used to create an empty set. Using empty curly braces, i.e., {}, creates a dictionary datatype in Python.'in' operator can be used to check the presence of an element in a set.Sets support the mathematical set operations like union, intersection, difference, symmetric difference, etc.Sets are mutable, we can add or remove elements from them.Cheat sheetUseful resources and referencesPython documentation for sets

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Let’s say you finished up a wonderful GUI application using wxPython. How do you share it with the world? This is always the dilemma when you finish an amazing program. Fortunately, there are several ways you can share your code. If you want to share your code with other developers, than Github or a similar website is definitely a good way to do. I won’t be covering using Git or Mercurial here. Instead what you will learn here is how to turn your application into an executable. By turning your code into an executable, you can allow a user to just download the binary and run it without requiring them to download Python, your source code and your dependencies. All of those things will be bundled up into the executable instead. There are many tools you can use to generate an executable: py2exe py2app PyInstaller cx_Freeze bbfreeze Nuitka Briefcase You will be using PyInstaller in this tutorial. The main benefit to using PyInstaller is that it can generate executables for Windows, Mac and Linux. Note that it does not support cross-compiling. What that means is that you cannot run PyInstaller on Linux to create a Windows executable. Instead, PyInstaller will only create an executable for the OS that it is ran on. In other words, if you run PyInstaller on Windows, it will create a Windows executable only. Installing PyInstaller Installing the PyInstaller package is nice and straightforward. All you need is pip. Here is how you would install PyInstaller to your system Python: pip install pyinstaller You could also install PyInstaller to a virtual Python environment using Python’s venv module or the virtualenv package. Generating an Executable The nice thing about PyInstaller is that it is very easy to use out of the box. All you need to do is run the `pyinstaller` command followed by the path to the main file of the application that you want to convert to an executable. Here is a non-working example: pyinstaller path/to/main/script.py If the PyInstaller application is not found, you may have to specify a full path to it. By default, PyInstaller installs to Python’s **Scripts** sub-folder, which is going to be in your system Python folder or in your virtual environment. Let’s take one of the simple applications from my upcoming book and turn it into an executable. For example, you could use image_viewer_slideshow.py from chapter 3: # image_viewer_slideshow.py   import glob import os import wx   class ImagePanel(wx.Panel):   def __init__(self, parent): super().__init__(parent) self.max_size = 240 self.photos = [] self.current_photo = 0 self.total_photos = 0 self.layout()   self.slideshow_timer = wx.Timer(self) self.Bind(wx.EVT_TIMER, self.on_next, self.slideshow_timer)   def layout(self): """ Layout the widgets on the panel """   self.main_sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL) btn_sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)   img = wx.Image(self.max_size, self.max_size) self.image_ctrl = wx.StaticBitmap(self, wx.ID_ANY, wx.Bitmap(img)) self.main_sizer.Add(self.image_ctrl, 0, wx.ALL|wx.CENTER, 5) self.image_label = wx.StaticText(self, label="") self.main_sizer.Add(self.image_label, 0, wx.ALL|wx.CENTER, 5)   btn_data = [("Previous", btn_sizer, self.on_previous), ("Slide Show", btn_sizer, self.on_slideshow), ("Next", btn_sizer, self.on_next)] for data in btn_data: label, sizer, handler = data self.btn_builder(label, sizer, handler)   self.main_sizer.Add(btn_sizer, 0, wx.CENTER) self.SetSizer(self.main_sizer)   def btn_builder(self, label, sizer, handler): """ Builds a button, binds it to an event handler and adds it to a sizer """ btn = wx.Button(self, label=label) btn.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, handler) sizer.Add(btn, 0, wx.ALL|wx.CENTER, 5)   def on_next(self, event): """ Loads the next picture in the directory """ if not self.photos: return   if self.current_photo == self.total_photos - 1: self.current_photo = 0 else: self.current_photo += 1 self.update_photo(self.photos[self.current_photo])   def on_previous(self, event): """ Displays the previous picture in the directory """ if not self.photos: return   if self.current_photo == 0: self.current_photo = self.total_photos - 1 else: self.current_photo -= 1 self.update_photo(self.photos[self.current_photo])   def on_slideshow(self, event): """ Starts and stops the slideshow """ btn = event.GetEventObject() label = btn.GetLabel() if label == "Slide Show": self.slideshow_timer.Start(3000) btn.SetLabel("Stop") else: self.slideshow_timer.Stop() btn.SetLabel("Slide Show")   def update_photo(self, image): """ Update the currently shown photo """ img = wx.Image(image, wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ANY) # scale the image, preserving the aspect ratio W = img.GetWidth() H = img.GetHeight() if W > H: NewW = self.max_size NewH = self.max_size * H / W else: NewH = self.max_size NewW = self.max_size * W / H img = img.Scale(NewW, NewH)   self.image_ctrl.SetBitmap(wx.Bitmap(img)) self.Refresh()   def reset(self): img = wx.Image(self.max_size, self.max_size) bmp = wx.Bitmap(img) self.image_ctrl.SetBitmap(bmp) self.current_photo = 0 self.photos = []     class MainFrame(wx.Frame):   def __init__(self): super().__init__(None, title='Image Viewer', size=(400, 400)) self.panel = ImagePanel(self) self.create_toolbar() self.Show()   def create_toolbar(self): """ Create a toolbar """ self.toolbar = self.CreateToolBar() self.toolbar.SetToolBitmapSize((16,16))   open_ico = wx.ArtProvider.GetBitmap( wx.ART_FILE_OPEN, wx.ART_TOOLBAR, (16,16)) openTool = self.toolbar.AddTool( wx.ID_ANY, "Open", open_ico, "Open an Image Directory") self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.on_open_directory, openTool)   self.toolbar.Realize()   def on_open_directory(self, event): """ Open a directory dialog """ with wx.DirDialog(self, "Choose a directory", style=wx.DD_DEFAULT_STYLE) as dlg:   if dlg.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK: self.folderPath = dlg.GetPath()   photos = glob.glob(os.path.join(self.folderPath, '*.jpg')) self.panel.photos = photos if photos: self.panel.update_photo(photos[0]) self.panel.total_photos = len(photos) else: self.panel.reset()     if __name__ == '__main__': app = wx.App(redirect=False) frame = MainFrame() app.MainLoop() If you wanted to turn it into an executable, you would run the following: pyinstaller image_viewer_slideshow.py Make sure that when you run this command, your current working directory is the one that contains the script you are converting to an executable. PyInstaller will be creating its output in whatever the current working directory is. When you run this command, you should see something like this in your terminal: PyInstaller will create two folders in the same folder as the script that you are converting called **dist** and **build**. The **dist** folder is where you will find your executable if PyInstaller completes successfully. There will be many other files in the **dist** folder besides your executable. These are files that are required for your executable to run. Now let’s try running your newly created executable. When I ran my copy, I noticed that a terminal / console was appearing behind my application. Image Viewer with Console in Background This is normal as the default behavior of PyInstaller is to build your application as if it were a command-line application, not a GUI. You will need to add the –noconsole flag to remove the console: pyinstaller image_viewer_slideshow.py --noconsole Now when you run the result, you should no longer see a console window appearing behind your application. It can be complicated to distribute lots of files, so PyInstaller has another command that you can use to bundle everything up into a single executable. That command is `–onefile`. As an aside, a lot of the commands that you use with PyInstaller have shorter aliases. For example, there is a shorter alias for `–noconsole` that you can also use called: -w. Note the single dash in `-w`. So let’s take that information and have PyInstaller create a single file executable with no console: [python] pyinstaller image_viewer_slideshow.py --onefile -w You should now have just one file in the dist folder. The spec file PyInstaller has the concept of specification files. They are kind of like a setup.py script, which is something that you use with Python’s distutils. These spec files tell PyInstaller how to build your executable. PyInstaller will generate one for you automatically with the same name as the passed in script, but with a .spec extension. So if you passed in image_viewer_slideshow.py, then you should see a image_viewer_slideshow.spec file after running PyInstaller. This spec file will be created in the same location as your application file. Here is the contents of the spec file that was created from the last run of PyInstaller above: # -*- mode: python -*-   block_cipher = None     a = Analysis(['image_viewer.py'], pathex=['C:\\Users\\mdriscoll\\Documents\\test'], binaries=[], datas=[], hiddenimports=[], hookspath=[], runtime_hooks=[], excludes=[], win_no_prefer_redirects=False, win_private_assemblies=False, cipher=block_cipher, noarchive=False) pyz = PYZ(a.pure, a.zipped_data, cipher=block_cipher) exe = EXE(pyz, a.scripts, a.binaries, a.zipfiles, a.datas, [], name='image_viewer', debug=False, bootloader_ignore_signals=False, strip=False, upx=True, runtime_tmpdir=None, console=False ) While PyInstaller worked fine with the image viewer example, you may find that it won’t work out of the box if you had other dependencies, such as NumPy or Pandas. If you run into issues with PyInstaller, it has very verbose logs that you can use to help you figure out the issue. One good location is the `build/cli/warn-cli.txt` file. You may also want to rebuild without the `-w` command so that you can see what is being printed to stdout in the console window. There are also options for changing the log level during building that may help you uncover issues. If none of those work, try Google or go to PyInstaller’s support page and get help there. Creating Executables for Mac While the same commands should work on Mac OSX as it does on Windows, I found that I needed to run the following command to generate a working executable: pyinstaller image_viewer_slideshow.py --windowed The output that PyInstaller generates will be slightly different and the result is an application file. Another popular option for generating applications on Mac is a Python package called py2app. Creating Executables for Linux For Linux, it is usually recommended that you build the executable with an old version of glibc because the newer glibc versions are backwards compatible. By building with an old version of Linux, you can usually target a wider variety of Linux versions. But your mileage may vary. After the files are generated, you can just tar them up into a gzipped tarball (.tax.gz). You could even using the archiving application you created in this book to do that for you, if you wanted. An alternative would be to learn how to create a .deb or related file that most Linux versions can install. Learning More About PyInstaller This article is not meant to be an in-depth guide to PyInstaller. It will likely change much faster than wxPython, so it is recommended that you read the documentation for PyInstaller instead. It will always be the most up-to-date location to get the information you need on the project. What About Installers? Windows users know that most of the time you have an installer application that you can run to install your application on your computer and put some shortcuts here and there. There are several useful free programs that you can use to create a Windows Installer as well as some paid ones Here are the two freeware applications I see mentioned the most: NSIS Inno Setup I have used Inno Setup to create a Windows installer on several occasions. It is easy to use and requires only a little reading of its documentation to get it working. I haven’t used NSIS before, but I suspect it is quite easy to use as well. Let’s use Inno Setup as an example and see how to generate an installer with it. Creating an Installer with Inno Setup Inno Setup is a nice freeware application that you can use to create professional looking installer programs. It works on most versions of Windows. I personally have used it for quite a few years. While Inno Setup is not open source, it is still a really nice program. You will need to download and install it from there website. Once installed, you can use this tool to create an installer for the executable you created earlier in this chapter. To get started, just run Inno Setup and you should see the following: Inno Setup’s Startup Page While Inno Setup defaults to opening an existing file, what you want to do is choose the second option from the top: “Create a new script file using the Script Wizard”. Then press **OK**. You should now see the first page of the Inno Setup Script Wizard. Just hit **Next** here since there’s nothing else you can really do. Now you should see something like this: Inno Setup Script Wizard Application Information Page This is where you enter your applications name, its version information, the publisher’s name and the application’s website. I pre-filled it with some examples, but you can enter whatever you want to here. Go ahead and press Next and you should see page 3: Inno Setup Script Wizard Application Folder Page This page of the wizard is where you can set the application’s install directory. On Windows, most applications install to **Program Files**, which is also the default here. This is also where you set the folder name for your application. This is the name of the folder that will appear in Program Files. Alternatively, you can check the box at the bottom that indicates that your application doesn’t need a folder at all. Let’s go to the next page: Inno Setup Script Wizard Application Files Page Here is where you will choose the main executable file. In this case, you want to choose the executable you created with PyInstaller. If you didn’t create the executable using the –onefile flag, then you can add the other files using the Add file(s)… button. If your application requires any other special files, like a SQLite database file or images, this is also where you would want to add them. By default, this page will allow the user to run your application when the installer finishes. A lot of installers do this, so it’s actually expected by most users. Let’s continue: Inno Setup Script Wizard Application Shortcuts Page This is the Application Shortcuts page and it allows you to manage what shortcuts are created for your application and where they should go. The options are pretty self-explanatory. I usually just use the defaults, but you are welcome to change them however you see fit. Let’s find out what’s on the documentation page: Inno Setup Script Wizard Application Documentation Page The Documentation Page of the wizard is where you can add your application’s license file. For example, if you were putting out an open source application, you can add the GPL or MIT or whatever license file you need there. If this were a commercial application, this is where you would add your End-Users License Agreement (EULA) file. Let’s see what’s next: Inno Setup Script Wizard Setup Languages Page Here you can set up which setup languages should be included. Inno Setup supports quite a few languages, with English as the default choice. Now let’s find out what compiler settings are: Inno Setup Script Wizard Compiler Settings Page The Compiler Settings page let’s you name the output setup file, which defaults to simply **setup**. You can set the output folder here, add a custom setup file icon and even add password protection to the setup file. I usually just leave the defaults alone, but this is an opportunity to add some branding to the setup if you have a nice icon file handy. The next page is for the preprocessor: Inno Setup Script Wizard Preprocessor Page The preprocessor is primarily for catching typos in the Inno Setup script file. It basically adds some helpful options at compile time to your Inno Setup script. Check out the documentation for full details. Click Next and you should see the last page of the wizard: Inno Setup Script Wizard End Page Click Finish and Inno Setup will generate an Inno Setup Script (.iss) file. When it is finished, it will ask you if you would like to compile the file. Go ahead and accept that dialog and you should see the following: Inno Setup Script This is the Inno Setup Script editor with your newly generated script pre-loaded into it. The top half is the script that was generated and the bottom half shows the compiler’s output. In this screenshot, it shows that the setup file was generated successfully but it also displays a warning that you might want to rename the setup file. At this point, you should have a working installer executable that will install your program and any files it depends on to the right locations. It will also create shortcuts in the Windows Start menu and whichever other locations you specified in the wizard. The script file itself can be edited. It is just a text file and the syntax is well documented on Inno Setup’s website. Code Signing Windows and Mac OSX prefer that applications are signed by a corporation or the developer. Otherwise you will see a warning that you are using an unsigned piece of code or software. The reason this matters is that it protects your application from being modified by someone else. You can think of code signing as a kind of embedded MD5 hash in your application. A signed application can be traced back to whomever signed it, which makes it more trust-worthy. If you want to sign code on Mac OSX, you can use XCode Windows has several options for signing their code. Here is a URL for getting your application certified for Windows You can also purchase a certificate from various companies that specialize in code signing, such as digicert. There is also the concept of self-signed certificates, but that is not for production or for end users. You would only self-sign for internal testing, proof-of-concept, etc. You can look up how to do that on your own. Wrapping Up You have now learned how to generate executables using PyInstaller on Windows, Mac and Linux. The command to generate the executable is the same across all platforms. While you cannot create a Windows executable by running PyInstaller on Linux, it is still quite useful for creating executable for the target operating system. You also learned how to use Inno Setup to create an installer for Windows. You can now use these skills to create executables for your own applications or for some of the other applications that you created in this book! Further Reading A bbfreeze Tutorial – Build a Binary Series! Packaging wxPyMail for Distribution

The Board of the Django Software Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2018 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize has been awarded to Kojo Idrissa. Kojo has been active in the Django community since at least 2015, if not earlier. He's been a DjangoCon US organizer since 2016, former DEFNA board member, and current DEFNA North American Ambassador. Kojo has hosted an orientation for first-time DjangoCon US attendees for the last several years, which could not be a better example of Malcolm's friendly spirit to new users. Ken Whitesell, who nominated Kojo, also noted many Kojo's other contributions: Kojo is a very active member of the weekly CodeNewbie chats. Hosts the DjangoCon new-user orientation session. Very visible presence at DjangoCon, always seems to be focused on ensuring first time attendees have the best possible experience. The other nominees this year were: Anna Makarudze Daniel Joey Darko Humphrey Butau Jani Tiainen Jeff Triplett Kenneth Love Simon Charette Every year we receive many nominations and it's always hard to pick the winner. In fact, some have been nominated in multiple years. Malcolm would be very proud of the legacy he has fostered in our community! Congratulations Kojo on the well deserved honor!

In this course on Python decorators, you’ll learn what they are and how to create and use them. Decorators provide a simple syntax for calling higher-order functions in Python. By definition, a decorator is a function that takes another function and extends the behavior of the latter function without explicitly modifying it. [ Improve Your Python With ? Python Tricks ? – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ]

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Joomla 3.9.4 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 4 security vulnerabilities and contains 28 bug fixes and improvements.

A report by Check Point Research has been brought to our attention relating to a security vulnerability that was patched back in December 2015. This report has also been picked up by Threat Post. Both reports contain a great deal of inaccuracies and intimate that the vulnerability detailed is a current one. This statement serves to clarify the facts surrounding this issue. Furthermore we would like to assure our user base that, much as these posts attempt to state that this is a current issue, the truth of the matter is far from that.

Joomla 3.9.3 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 6 security vulnerabilities and contains 30 bug fixes and improvements.

As of release 3.5 Joomla is collecting stats data, thanks to the stats plugin (only works if it’s enabled), and it found too many websites are not using the currently supported release of 3.9.2. This data is based on the Joomla, PHP, and database version. These are some pretty alarming statistics, and should not be ignored! We have provided some links at the bottom of this article for your reference, review, and to even get the latest release of Joomla.

Joomla 3.9.2 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 4 security vulnerabilities and contains over 50 bug fixes and improvements.

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Joomla 3.9.1 is now available. This is a bug fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla including over 40 bug fixes and improvements.

Would you like to speed up your extensions development? Use BPLibrary. You will use only 5 classes, short and intuitive method naming. No waste your time anymore and remain focused on what make difference in your wallet: your extensions development! Just few examples: Bp::addCss instead of JFactory::getApplication()->addStyleSheet: 31 digits shorter! Bp::addJava instead of JFactory::getApplication()->addScript: 26 digits shorter! Bp::addJavaCode instead of JFactory::getApplication()->addScriptDeclaration: 33 digits shorter! Bp::addMex instead of JFactory::getApplication()->enqueueMessage: 32 digits shorter! It's just to start. How much are paid while you digit all surpluses? Zero. You develop multilingual extensions, don't you? What if your extensions have to manage plurals? Wouldn't be cool to pass the key and an integer to the method and let it do the dirty work? set MYLANGKEY and MYLANGKEYMORE in your language file, then use: Bp::txt('MYLANGKEY', 4). The method 'txt' will search for MYLANGKEY4, if found will sprintf the language text passing the integer ('4') as the argument. Otherwise will search for MYLANGKEYMORE and finally MYLANG_KEY if missing all the previous. The method will 'sprintf' the text found. Think for a moment at what you can do faster than ever and give it a try. It's FREE! Have a look at what you can do with BPLibrary on: http://brainpies.com

Phoca PDF System plugin is a Joomla! plugin which tries to add PDF Print button to Joomla! article so the article can be generated as PDF with help of Phoca PDF component.

This module places a "punch" button on the website. Clicking that button all texts of the very website are replaced by Chuck Norris facts. You might consider to replace all texts on the website with random dummie text on the fly (javascript) to see whether the layout can cope with various kinds of text length. If you do, make sure you use brute force! Btw Chuck Norris never uses this module, ever. He mentally hacks into website texts to replace them.

Introduction Elfsight Facebook Reviews is a simple tool to show reviews from your Facebook page on the website. Grow trust to your brand demonstrating high social proof of your products. Elfsight extension allows filtering your reviews, adding star rating, author information, and showing a button of review-request. There are different predefined widget layouts and review templates; interface elements are switchable, as well as the widget header. Get the interface that you need in seconds and let it bring you higher trust and more reviews! Benefits - Increase confidence in your brand; - Attract sales boasting your excellent rating; - Collect more reviews with call-to-action button. Features - Our Facebook Feed Joomla Extension is extremely easy to install and it doesn’t require coding skills. Yet it’s reach in one-click-available features, which will help you in your business needs. - Embedding customer reviews from Facebook page - Three types of filters: by type, exclude by, and quantity of reviews - 22 predefined languages supported - Three types of layout: List, Grid, and Slider - Choosing the number of reviews per page - Classic or Masonry types of Grid layout - Arrows and drags navigation in Slider layout - Setting slide speed and autoplay speed - Choosing pagination type in Slider layout - Adjustable width and height of the widget - Switchable header of the widget - Switchable elements of the header: rating and pictures of reviewers - Editable widget title with adjustable font size and weight - Review request button to redirect on facebook page - Two scenarios of review request denial: show a message or hide the form - Editable text message after review request denial, with formatting options - Links supported in review request denial message - Three review templates: Classic, Bubble, Spotlight - 6 switchable elements of the reviews: author name and picture, recommendation, date, Facebook icon, and star rating - Three review decoration types: Border, Background, None - 5 paintable elements of the interface: background, review text, links. Review request button, rating. - Changing review teхt font size This Facebook Reviews Extension is provided by Elfsight Apps Elfsight Apps is a cloud-based service that features apps to extend and diversify your website functionality (for instance, Instagram Feed, YouTube Gallery, Social Icons and others). This extension acts as a bridge between your site and Elfsight Apps Service, connecting the two together. It takes the widget you’ve configured at Elfsight Apps and displays it right on your website. If you don’t have an Elfsight Apps account, setting it up is totally free, and only takes you about a minute. Installation in 1-2-3 This extension is unbelievably easy to install. After downloading the extension zip, you need to install it on your website, create and configure a widget and copy-paste its code into any page or your website template. Free installation service Our Support Team will be happy to install the extension for you, or to answer any questions that might come up. Contact us at apps@elfsight.com, and we’ll be happy to help!

This course management (event management) component allows you to have a complete event listing and booking system on your Joomla! site. Your customers can book an existing seminar or register at a prospect list. The OSG Seminar Manager PRO comes as package with multiple modules and plugins like Upcoming Events, Calendar, Search, Manual Booking and Invoice, Voting of coure topics..... 100% Money Back Guarantee for fist-time members! Frontend: Limit of the bookability of events to specific user groups (access levels for courses and categories) publish courses (events) in multiples categories or tags, as list and as course details, publish course (event) templates without dates (preview of courses (events) - interested parties list) publish an unlimited number of prices display of prices can be scheduled, for example, early bird discounts ,which are automatically hidden. display of the participant list and waiting list in the frontend display of free seats support of 2nd currency using a static exchange rate display up to 5 price groups depending on Joomla! Usergroups (e.g. prices for members) display if a course (event) is already fully booked offer documents to download list trainer profiles (trainer lists) and the courses of the trainer display of more course (event) details (day, time, room, etc) and much more.. Users can: * book multiple seats on events or * register as interested party to events without date * pay via Paypal * registered users can view their invoices in front-end * registered users can view favorites Administration: All changes to personal data are logged. (A requirement of the GDPR) Rebooking of several participants at the same time automatic users registration, attachment of invoices on booking confirmation emails, customize email and invoice templates, administrate all users on this list in back-end and notify them on new course (event) dates, prices can be displayed with or without VAT, sending particpants or groups of participants emails directly from the backend, automatic PDF invoice generation generate PDF attendee lists, create custom fields for the application form, clone courses (events) from templates, organize course (event) with tags or categories, administrate tutors, tutor profiles, allow acces to the backend with limited rights (manager and trainer roles) and much more

THE ORIGINS OF JOOMFLOWS Behind the Joomflows component there is a group of three companies specialized in the creation of high added value websites: intranet, extranet, community sites or e-commerce. Through the various specifications that we receive, we noticed that many processes did not require a direct treatment but a follow-up action, a framework of work. And since most of our clients are not monolithically structured, actions depend on multiple people or multiple services. The need to create a Workflow Manager was born. Take an example, it will be easier to understand. One of our clients is a training center that we could call "Pure Player" in the sense that all its activity is based on its website. Student management work ranges from registration on the site to graduation. And between these two milestones it can happen a year of administrative management, the file can pass from the registration service to the accounting department and then to the support service, exams, etc. At each stage the processes will have to be checked, validated and sent to the next step. Many of you work surely with heuristic maps, here is the simplified version of the part inscription required by the specifications of this project. This diagram makes it possible to understand the interactions between the different actors, the future student to whom the registration service of the training organization requests supporting documents, as well as the accounting department and all this via emails in which are attached documents to be completed. or to sign. The origin of Joomflows comes from this schema and our desire to transform a long and complicated workflow into a simple action series to create and administer.

WaTestimonialSlider is a Joomla module that shows information from customer testimonials for your website.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.27. This is a security release which also contains several bug fixes.All PHP 7.1 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.1.27 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.16. This is a security release which also contains several minor bug fixes.All PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.2.16 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.3. This is a security release which also contains several bug fixes.All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.3.3 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.15. This is a bugfix release.All PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.2.15 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.2. This is a bugfix release, with several bug fixes included.All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.3.2 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.40. This is a security release. Several security bugs have been fixed in this release. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. For source downloads of PHP 5.6.40 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog. Please note that according to the PHP version support timelines, PHP 5.6.40 is the last scheduled release of PHP 5.6 branch. There may be additional release if we discover important security issues that warrant it, otherwise this release will be the final one in the PHP 5.6 branch. If your PHP installation is based on PHP 5.6, it may be a good time to start making the plans for the upgrade to PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2 or PHP 7.3.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.26. This is a security release which also contains several bug fixes.All PHP 7.1 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.1.26 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

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An extremely convincing phishing attack that impersonates a multi-game skin trade bot appears to be using a fake Extended Validation TLS certificate to steal Steam accounts. The ongoing phishing attack impersonates TradeIt.gg, which facilitates the trading of skins, weapons and other in-game commodities within popular games like CS:GO, TF2 and DOTA. When a victim attempts [...]

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In the February 2019 survey we received responses from 1,477,803,927 sites, 229,586,773 unique domains, and 8,366,753 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 40.4 million sites, and gains of 979k domains, and 157k web-facing computers. Microsoft experienced the largest gain in domains this month, with a net increase of just over one million. Despite several [...]

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Netcraft's new anti-phishing app, already available in the Google Play store, has just been released to the Amazon Appstore. The iOS app is with Apple for review. Android web browsers lack comprehensive protection against malicious websites, and in most cases only block a small fraction of the sites blocked by their desktop counterparts. The Netcraft [...]

Netcraft has developed a new anti-phishing app for Android to defend against fraudulent sites. The Netcraft app is available now on Google Play and at the Amazon Appstore. The Netcraft app for iOS is with Apple for review. Netcraft's new Android app provides rapid protection against phishing threats, with new attacks blocked as soon as [...]

In the January 2019 survey we received responses from 1,518,207,412 sites, 228,607,903 unique domains, and 8,209,715 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 138 million sites, and gains of 768.9k domains, and 61.9k web-facing computers. The vast majority of the loss of sites this month was seen for those using Microsoft web server software — [...]

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