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Vacation in the Danube Delta

lacisoft — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:55:48 +0000

You were wondering what’s with this silence on my blog? Well i’m in vacation in the Danube Delta (link content in romanian, check this for english). Check out what’s my view right now!

TYPO3 Usergroup Romania

Add a file upload to TYPO3 Flexform

lacisoft — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:13:00 +0000

I was wondering for a long time if this is possible. To add a file upload to a TYPO3 Flexform. But i never had the real need to implement something like this. Until today.

I run into a problem where the only solution seemed to be a file upload in the extension’s flexform. And i started digging. The solution is at hand and it is simple. You only need to add the following code into the flexform definition file and customize it according to your needs:


  
         LLL:EXT:axprice/locallang_db.xml:tt_content.pi_flexform.fileupload
            
         
		group
	        file
		gif, jpg,jpeg,png,csv
		10000
		uploads/tx_axprice
		1
		1
		1
Width:180px

Typoscript: wrap only if content is not empty

lacisoft — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:48:41 +0000

Often i run into this problem in TYPO3 : i have to wrap a content element with Typoscript but ONLY if there is content. This has an easy solution but all too often i forget it and have to search it up again. So this time i post it here and maybe it helps others too.

subparts.col2 < styles.content.getRight
subparts.col2.stdWrap {
       wrap =
|

       required = 1
}

Job posting: Arxia is hiring PHP developers

lacisoft — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:17:23 +0000

Because the growing number of projects, here at Arxia, (the company i work) we’re looking for good PHP developers again. We do TYPO3 and Drupal development but we also have some other PHP projects that require more resources.

So:

Do you have experience with PHP and MySQL ?
You are comfortable with working on other people’s code ?
You are willing to learn new things ?
You are a good team player ?
You are open to working with Content Management Systems like TYPO3 or Drupal ?
You live in Cluj Napoca, Romania or near the city?

If you can answer with yes to all these questions then please send your resume to: office{at} arxia {dot} ro

Arxia is an expanding company, with over 8 years of experience in developing web projects for domestic and international clients.

Arxia is great company to work for, that’s because you have a good salary package, flexible work hours and a great deal of freedom in what you do. You don’t have bosses to bug you all the time and the colleagues are great.

Our office is located close to Cluj Napoca center and if you use public transportation than the bus stop is at a 150 meters.

Hell, it’s about time

lacisoft — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:38:59 +0000

Today is a very special day. It’s the day we waited for 12 years. And make no mistake, this day – the 27th of July 2010 will remain in history …

What are you waiting for ? Go and buy your copy. I already have mine!

Yahoo! Tech is closing

How to create a Recycle Bin / Trash feature in TYPO3′s fileadmin

lacisoft — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:59:21 +0000

Did you know that you can create a Recycle Bin / Trash feature in TYPO3′s fileadmin ? It will work just like a Recycle Bin, when you delete a file instead of being deleted instantly it will be moved into the recycle folder. This is a hidden feature of TYPO3 and it doesn’t need any complicated settings or programming.

You just go to File -> Filelist and create a special folder named _recycler_

Here is the result (note that i created 2 recyclers – you will see later why) :

The true power of this hidden feature is that it supports multiple recyclers and master/slave configurations. For example in my configuration the files deleted in the templates folder are moved to the Recycler in the templates folder and files on root level directories are moved into the root level Recycler.

Also this setup behaves like a master/slave configuration. For example if i delete a file from the Recycler under templates directory then those files will be moved to the upper level Recycler (root level). If i delete them from here also then they will be deleted for good.

This is a very cool feature that is built into TYPO3 but not many know about it.

Will automobile technologies evolve where they should be ?

lacisoft — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:43:38 +0000

Do you remember my article written in 2008 about automobiles being left behind by evolution ? Well this is in a way an update to that article. No, unfortunately we didn’t get there overnight. But it seems that we are making small steps in that direction. You can see in the video below what engineers at Volvo are doing to prevent accidents and provide a car that is able to take independent decisions regardless of what the driver is doing or not doing.

This is only a small step in that direction. The direction i envision about automobiles and transportation in general. But its the right one.

Two must reads

lacisoft — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:32:55 +0000

In the last week there were fewer interesting reads in my reader so my weekly article batch will turn this week into a must read recommendation. I will only point out two articles but oh boy they are good.

The first one is from John Batelle and is called: On Facebook, Google, and Our Evolving Social Mores Online. The article itself is interesting enough but more interesting is the presentation. It has 216 slides but it worth every minute you spend on it. You will find a different perspective on social networks and social web in general.

The other article is The Emerging Online Giants and is published in The Economist. This article goes behind the front players in the battle of the web and study a few companies that are not so well known as Google or Yahoo or Microsoft but they are steadily and quietly acquire more and more web properties and power. Its interesting to see how they will evolve and what will become of them.

P.S.

BTW, i see that The Economist is running on Drupal. Way to go!

TYPO3 extension: Google Web Font Loader

lacisoft — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:53:29 +0000

Not so long ago i was writing about the new Google Web Fonts launched at the latest Google I/O. Well i thought for a time to write an extension that will allow the use of these fonts in a TYPO3 system just by installing the extension and choosing the font. Unfortunately i didn’t had the time to write this extension. But fortunately others had time and just now i discovered that the Google Web Font Loader TYPO3 extension is available for download.

This is great news for all TYPO3 developers. We can now all use this extension to display nice fonts on our websites. I’ve read the documentation of the extension and it seems that one can use multiple fonts in one website and can even configure the plugin via Typoscript:

plugin.tx_googlewebfont_pi1 {
  WebFontLoader = 1
  fonts.google = Tangerine, Inconsolata, Droid Sans
}

It’s as simple as that. And now your fonts look much better. Isn’t this great ?

Weekly article batch 3

lacisoft — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:06:22 +0000

From this week i will try to resuscitate my weekly article batches.

Here is the most interesting articles from the last week:

Drupal 7 Vs. WordPress 3: Battle Of The New Features : an interesting read about the two highly anticipated open-source CMS releases of the year. You guessed correctly. Its about Drupal 7 and WordPress 3.
Wrapping up T3DD10 : interesting stuff happened at the latest TYPO3 Developers Days. Among other things the release date for TYPO3 4.5 was set. It is 26th of January 2011
PHP : the teenage years : PHP turned 15 this year. A nice post about PHP, its strengths, weaknesses and what are the challenges, what comes next.
Updated Cheat Sheets for CSS, HTML, jQuery, PHP and More : Cheat Sheets come handy sometimes. So take a good look at them and why not even save them ?
How to write a simple scraper in PHP without Regex : Didn’t you think ever about a PHP scraper ? I did. And here is a nice tutorial that shows you how to scrape with PHP without Regex.