1. Joomla works fine with international characters
2. A Module Extension I wrote for Joomla! displayed funny characters.
3. The Joomla! articles were displaying the correct characters for that language set.
4. I needed to make my extension read data from a MySQL database and display the caracters as intended with UTF8.

SET NAMES 'utf8'

$today=date("Y-m-d");
$yesterday = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m") , date("d") - 1, date("Y")));

I saw this on BBC News Click and was really impressed. It's an effect called "time-lapse tilt shift photography" where everything is made to look smaller than it actually is.

As an update Mar 2011, I just watched Gulliver's Travels (2010) and it looks like the same effect for the intro credits :c)

This is "a day in the life of New York City".

More Information can be found at http://aerofilm.blogspot.com/2010/02/sandpit-short-film-by-aero-director-sam.html

Personally I can sit there watching it without sound.

• We have an internal wiki knowledge base using MediaWiki version 1.14.
• Some articles are available for public, some are restricted to staff and different localgroups.
• When users click on the 'Login' link, we want the system to automatically prompt them for their username/password. (Kerberos authenticated, as opposed to NTLM authenticated).
• Note: This article is displaying how to change the link and not how to setup these authentication methods.

In this particular case, I'm comparing my Live and Dev versions of the same MediaWiki site. I want to add the SQL queries I used to this article but I'm in the middle of carrying out this process and it's due in two hours.

Checking both MediaWiki have the same article content:
1. Print Special:AllPages from both sites and do an eye-check (I basically highlighted articles found in one but not the other - we had over 2000 articles... I guess I'm a bit geekly like that)
2. This doesn't show modified date and content size differences but I can run this SQL query to show me these.

Having trouble ordering your frontpage articles? After re-ordering articles wondering where it was taking the order it puts the articles in the front page (or landing page) was confusing me. The quick answer is that it is within the menu manager > main menu > menu item section of your Joomla! Admin Panel.

Certain Advanced Parameters in your Menu Item called "Home" must be set correctly for the article ordering you set in your Front Page Manager to take effect.