Getting Things Done with Chandler
To improve my productivity, I'm trying to follow David Allen's recommendations about "Getting Things Done". It now seems that I finally have found a piece of software which fits my needs: Chandler, the so called note-to-self organizer.
IE once again sucks
On some of our websites, we use conditional comments to control CSS hacks for Internet Explorer. If you create static copies of a website (or mirror), never forget that only IE will follow the @import links inside conditional controls - tools like httrack or wget certainly will not, because they know how to behave! This fact cost me almost an hour today.
Use Foxmarks with your own server
The synchronization of Firefox bookmarks on two or more computers is easy done with Foxmarks. Here are some suggestions on how use it without the use of the Foxmarks webservice.
TYPO3 breaks on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron
After a dist-upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy on our webserver, TYPO3 was suddenly broken. The reason is a bug in PHP 5.2.4. There is a workaround for TYPO3, but unfortunately the patch is still pending in the core list.
vi(m) rulez!
I don't like those bloatware IDEs like Eclipse etc. It's just too oversized for most of my projects. My favorite tool for writing code is vim (Vi iMproved). And it comes with so many neat features, like code completion, for example.