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Today was round 2 of our little Twitter experiment to see what would happen when we gave anyone and everyone the opportunity to ask Rob Schley, JXtended Developer, Development Working Group Coordinator and Open Source Matters Board Member, any question they could imagine. Be sure to follow JXtended and RobSchley on Twitter to catch the next opportunity to get your questions answered by a Joomla expert. Without further ado, onto the questions!

We started a little experiment on Twitter to see what would happen when we gave anyone and everyone the opportunity to ask Rob Schley, JXtended Developer, Development Working Group Coordinator and Open Source Matters Board Member, any question they could imagine. Be sure to follow JXtended and RobSchley on Twitter to catch the next opportunity to get your questions answered by a Joomla expert. Without further ado, onto the questions!

VI OVER 60 is a Norwegian (paper) magazine, that now also has a website to be proud of.

"VI OVER 60" loosely translates to "THOSE OF US ABOVE 60", and is a Norwegian site for seniors which contains articles on law, economy and health.

Advertising and informational banners are an integral part of most web sites but sometimes, despite your best efforts at trying to trick the Joomla Module Manager, sometimes they just will not display where you want them to.  A customer of ours had the same problem - no combination of module assignments on menu items seemed to get the right banner on the right page.  Fortunately for him the problem had already been solved in Joomla 1.5 with a feature called Banner Tagging. 

I stumbled upon a post in the Joomla forums about speculation surrounding the mysterious origin of ID 62 for the default Joomla Super Administrator.

Fortunately, and many years ago, I pulled down all the historic downloads for Mambo (from which Joomla spooned, I mean spawned) and decided to look through them. The earliest version of Mambo I had was from 30 April 2001 being what I think was version 3.0.0. The install script for this version has the default user ID set to 1. This is the same for the next five versions but in verison 3.0.6, released around 27 July 2001 we see the first introduction of the now famous ID 62 for the Super Admin. Version 3.0.7, released in November 2001, and then the first of the 4.0 series, released a year later in November 2002, carred on the tradition (I joined the project in February of the following year).