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Yahoo! Tech is closing
Is there anything left for Yahoo to close ? After shutting down Photos, Geocites, 360 and whatnot now they’re closing Yahoo Tech! too. A sad company Yahoo became.
The website of the first romanian DrupalCamp is live
As you probably know already between 5 and 6 June 2010 the first romanian DrupalCamp will be organized in Timisoara, Romania. But you might not know that the website of the event went live yesterday and registrations are open now.
There are already a few people who registered to the event and sometime soon the organizers [...]
A few tips for TYPO3’s HtmlArea RTE configuration
I worked this week with the HtmlArea RTE from TYPO3 more then i ever did on a project before. And i learned some tricks that are very useful when you try to make this RTE to work as you want it. I’m sharing these with you, maybe someone needs them.
All these settings need to be [...]
How to turn off Google Buzz
Google Buzz arrived in our Gmail accounts this week. I must say i’m not a fan of this thing. I like Gmail because it has a fairly good spam filter and because i can easily filter and categorize my mail. My email is very important to me so i like to keep it organized and [...]
Typoscript snippet for creating breadcrumbs
A nice little Typoscript snippet that demonstrates how a simple breadcrumb can be created with TS. The last element of the breadcrumb will not be linked.
lib.breadcrumbs = HMENU
lib.breadcrumbs.special = rootline
lib.breadcrumbs.special.range = 0
lib.breadcrumbs.1 = TMENU
lib.breadcrumbs.1 {
noBlur = 1
NO.linkWrap = <li> | > |*||*| |< /li>
[...]
New TYPO3 book on the block
I’ve learned today about a new TYPO3 book – the TYPO3 4.3 Multimedia Cookbook written by Dan Osipov and published by Packt Publishing. They were kind enough to provide me a free copy for review. I will be receiving a copy in short time and will publish an extensive review of this book. I just wanted [...]
How to style your htmlArea RTE in TYPO3
The default htmlArea RTE in TYPO3’s backend renders the textarea content in a pretty ugly fashion. It looks like in the HTML 1.0 ages. But you can change that using just a few lines of code and a css file. How to accomplish this you might wonder. Its easy.
Go edit your root page (or some [...]
Fatality: Google drops IE6 support in 2010
Just received it on email from the Google Apps team:
“In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we [...]
Apology letter to Firefox
I must apologize to you for my thoughtless action to embrace Google Chrome so swiftly. I was wrong. I admit that now.
I never had any issues with you besides your appetite for memory. You really like eating all the memory you have available. But after all i bought 4 gigs of RAM for you. I [...]
Twitter fail
Too many tweets ? I guess they should have built it with PHP.
Importing large files into a MySQL database
From time to time i have to insert really large files into MySQL. And sometimes there are problems because you don’t have access to the mysql command line utility from the server to issue the source command (this lets you import dumps or sql files). So you have to use phpMyAdmin or some other web [...]
Powermail file upload size
TYPO3’s Powermail extension has the ability to upload files. That’s cool. But what if you need to specify a limit on the file size so you don’t get 5 MB large pictures for something that should just be a profile photo and should be fairly small.
There is a solution. Go edit your root TypoScript template [...]
Facebook and Farmville. Give me a break
I would like to see all those people who send me Farmville gift requests working one week at a farm! I bet they wouldn’t like farming so interesting anymore. When you have to work all day long on the crop fields or have to clean the crap of the farm animals (btw farmville fans … [...]
Weekly article batch 2
Here is the second edition of my weekly “press review”
Interesting articles last week:
Gartner report on PHP – published by Danne Lundqvist on dotvoid.com – writes about a report by Gartner (here) that makes it clear that more and more companies discover the benefits of PHP and adoption is increasing among major companies.
A case for table-based [...]
Thinking about switching to CentOS
Recently i’ve been playing with CentOS at work, setting up a server and configuring stuff on it. I used Linux a long time ago, when Mandrake was my OS of choice and i had plenty of time. But i had to switch to Windows because of some GIS software i’ve been using in school that [...]
