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Dries Buytaert is programming wunderkind. He learned to program when he was six years old -- even before he could read.

Today he is internationally famous as the creator of Drupal, one of the world's most successful open source projects.

And it all happened by accident.

Drupal is a free, open source content management system that powers a million websites including some of the biggest or most important like the White House, NASA and Twitter. Nearly 790,000 people in 228 countries contribute to it.

"This was never intentional. I'm an accidental leader. I love what I'm doing but never envisioned this to happen," he told Business Insider.

Although he's been working on Drupal for over 12 years, for most of that time, he never made a dime on it. This changed about four years ago when he founded Acquia in Boston.

Acquia is already wildly successful. It provides technical support for Drupal, has a Software-as-a-Service program similar to WordPress.com and does web hosting via a service called Drupal Gardens. The company has nearly 2,000 customers, with Drupal Gardens hosting over 100,000 websites including huge sites like Arabic news network Al Jazeera.

Acquia has raised $38.5 million in venture funding, backed by North Bridge, Sigma Partners, Tenaya Capital and Tim O'Reilly's O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

"We've grown from two people in 2008 to over 200 people today. We're looking to add another 100 to 120 people," he says. That makes Acquia one of the fastest-growing startups in Boston and named to Forbes most-promising list.

Because Drupal and Acquia isn't enough, Buytaert also has a second startup, Mollom, a comment spam blocking service for use with Drupal sites.

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Dries Buytaert's Software Powers A Million Important Websites — And He Built It From His Couch

Most owners of compromised websites don't know how their sites got hacked into and only 6 percent detect the malicious activity on their own, according to a report released by StopBadware and Commtouch on Thursday.

The new "Compromised Websites: An Owner's Perspective" report is based on a survey of over 600 website administrators and owners that was carried out over several months by security vendor Commtouch and StopBadware, a nonprofit organization that helps webmasters identify, remediate and prevent website compromises.

The leading cause of website compromises appears to be outdated content management software (CMS). This was indicated as a reason for their websites being hacked by 20 percent of respondents.

Twelve percent of webmasters said that a computer used to update their website was infected with malware, 6 percent said that their credentials were stolen credentials, and 2 percent admitted logging in while using wireless networks or public PCs. However, 63 percent of respondents didn't know how their websites got compromised.

The CMS platform most commonly installed on compromised websites was WordPress, as indicated by 28 percent of respondents. However, WordPress accounts for over 50 percent of the entire CMS market according to data from w3techs.com, so the rate between hacked WordPress websites and the platform's actual install base is better than that of other CMS platforms like Joomla or osCommerce.

Almost half of respondents -- 49 percent -- learned that their websites had been compromised through browser or search engine alerts. Eighteen percent were notified by their colleagues or friends, 10 percent by a security organization and 7 percent by their hosting provider. Only 6 percent of respondents discovered the compromise on their own by noticing suspicious or increased activity on their websites, the report said.

A third of respondents didn't know how their websites had been abused after being hacked. Those that did know pointed to the hosting of malware and rogue redirect scripts as being the most common forms of abuse -- 25 percent and 18 percent, respectively.

Many webmasters -- 46 percent -- managed to fix the compromise on their own, using information available on help forums and other websites. Twenty percent fixed the problem by following instructions received from security companies and 14 percent with the help of their hosting providers.

However, more than a quarter of respondents indicated that their websites remained compromised after trying several approaches.

Overall, 28 percent of webmasters said that they are considering switching Web hosting providers after their hacking experience. The survey found that webmasters were three times more likely to consider leaving Web hosting providers that charged extra for helping them address the problem or refused to provide support.

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by Wesley Epperson

Since doing business or other activities online is becoming popular. You need to learn and create your own website. One of the famous open source content management system (CMS) is Joomla. It is free and everyone interested to use it may use it with no charge. Joomla is easy to use and has flexible features. It can help create websites for your personal use, company, and organization.

One of the capabilities of Joomla is its support in creating friendly websites and search engines tools. Readers can achieve an easy reading experience without the presence of query strings and tables in the URLs. Installing and operating Joomla is as easy as making maintenance to your website. Unlike other CMS, Joomla is easy to operate since even those who are new to the websites can easily learn how to manage the sites like editing, deleting web pages, and organizing information.

Affordability is not a question when using Joomla. It can provide you with excellent and ideal web solutions. The multi-lingual features of Joomla help users learn web content syndicaton and scheduling of page displays. If you want to create forums and galleries for your picture collection, Joomla can be an excellent choice for you. Due to its increasing numbers of users and membership around the world, Joomla continues to become popular. If you are wishing to develop galleries and calendar in the form of website, you can rely on Joomla since it can help you in terms of content syndication and scheduling of content display. In terms of downloading and uploading files, users find it easier to do so with Joomla.

The layout and design of Joomla web page can be customized with ease and convenience. You can find options and various templates and used them to meet your needs. Since Joomla utilizes basic templates when developing websites, its users experience speed in loading web pages. It is said that these websites are suitable and ideal for those who run small businesses. You can easily alter and modify the appearance of the website while maintaining its important information. Another vital feature of Joomla is its capability to support various languages which is not present in some CMS. It can also work on various computer operating systems like Windows, Linux or Unix. According to its creator, Joomla has a centralized databased where all its components are kept. It is also capable of operating in a remote website using a typical browser. You can also have an easy and convenient way of maintaining the website.

If you are serious on publishing your content and blogs online, Joomla has all the ways you can use. To summarize, Joomla has the capabilities which other CMS don't have. You can creat website for free, customize and give it unique appearance. With Joomla various features, you can access all its elements and plugins to develop your own unique and amazing website. All these capabilities and features of Joomla will help you enhance your online presence with ease of posting your content and information to your website.

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Understanding the Capabilities of Joomla

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/383a8398/php_and_mysql_24h) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "PHP and MySQL 24-Hour Trainer" to their offering.

Assuming no previous experience with PHP or MySQL, this book-and-video package is ideal reading for anyone who wants to go beyond HTML/CSS in order to provide clients with the most dynamic web sites possible. The approachable tone breaks down the basics of programming and PHP and MySQL in individual lessons starting with the installation of the programs necessary to run PHP. You begin with a static web site and then watch and learn as PHP functionality is added as you work through the lessons.

When working with databases, the MySQL database is introduced with demonstrations that show how to interact with it. The accompanying videos enhance your learning experience, as each lesson in the book is portrayed in the video exercises.

Lessons include:

- Getting started with PHP

- Setting up your workspace

- Adding PHP to a web page

- Learning PHP syntax

- Working with variables

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Today, Joomla the name is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word "Jumla," which means "as a whole"is one of the most popular open source content management systems (CMS), claiming that 2.7 percent of the Web is Joomla-based sites.

If you were to drop Joomla on a straight line with other popular open source CMS projects, it would fall somewhere between WordPress and Drupal. Joomla, which is offered under the General Public License (GPL) version 2.0, is more robust than WordPress, while Drupal is usually favored by those with a developer background.

"Joomla really fits nicely between WordPress and Drupal," says Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, a nonprofit organization that provides organization, legal and financial support to the Joomla project.

"We've built a community and have a focus on reaching out to the average user and administrators of a website, but we also give under-the-hood tools to the developers and engineers trying to do something more complex," he adds.

Joomla powers the Children's Hospital Boston social intranet, providing a "Facebook-like" social environment and handling more than 2,500 concurrent users.

Joomla Jibes With Small to Mid-Sized Businesses

With such a large community and abundance of products and services, the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market is where this open source CMS is a strong contender. Small businesses like having access to thousands of add-ons that make it easy to extend basic website functionality.

"We've encouraged an economy around being able to productize add-ons. A small business can install a Joomla site by following a five-step tutorial on the Web, download the add-ons in a single zip file and end up with a professional site," said Ozimek.

Ozimek said that small businesses typically use Joomla-based sites for standard brochure-like websites, to add functionality to communicate with customers using support ticketing or for ecommerce.

The SMB market is where Joomla earned its reputation, but now all eyes are on the enterprise and what Joomla can do there.

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