Why OpenOffice.org and Zotero are not communicating
For my thesis I use OpenOffice.org in combination with Zotero (Firefox) to manage my references. (I already posted an article about Zotero over a year ago.) Both are powerful tools, but sometimes they are troublemakers...
How to create a page browser in TYPO3 extensions?
Hugh data listings can be confusing and hard to understand. That applies to search results as well as news collections, members directory or todo lists. Page browser divide listings into several parts, which make it much easier to keep track of the data. The following article describes and compares two approaches to integrate a page browser in TYPO3 extensions.
Creating a diff of OpenOffice .odt documents on the command-line
I just found a little easter egg to create diffs of OpenOffice.org documents (*.odt) on the command-line.
Testing the forthcoming TYPO3 caching framework with memcached
I just did some quick tests with the forthcoming caching framework of TYPO3. The results were surprising, although not the way I did expect.
Thunderbird add–on to comfortably switch threaded view between all and unread only
The header almost says it all: TYPO3 core developer Dmitry Dulepov has just published the Thunderbird add-on "Thread Views" which enhances usability when reading newsgroup threads.
FE plugins need configurable baseWrap instead of static pi_wrapInBaseClass
The output of most TYPO3 FE plugins are wrapped with a HTML div container by default (so called basewrap). This seems to be fair in most cases, but sometimes it is not and you have to get rid of them. Unfortunately, a lot of extensions including some of the most popular ones don't provide any control to handle this. This article describes how to do it better.
How to link to a file in a FE plugin of TYPO3?
This short snippet demonstrates the essentials of how to create links to files in FE plugins. It reveals the power of cObjects and TypoScript. This technique is typical for TYPO3 and it shows you why TYPO3 can be so amazing.
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T3node is a TYPO3 blog by Steffen Müller. Beside TYPO3, technical and nontechnical topics about free software and networked communication are discussed. It's build with TYPO3.
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About Steffen Müller
Since 2002, I am a user and developer of the TYPO3 content management system. I understand content management as an interdisciplinary task under the terms of a knowledge society. This task combines technical, economical and social aspects as well as profund analysis, planning and implementation.
Therefore I do not focus on plain coding, but on various aspects like usability, accessibility, customizability or empirical analysis, following actual findings in communication science. I am also very interested in the subjects of knowledge communication in open source communities and knowledge management in general.
Since the very beginning I am a strong enthusiast and an active member of the TYPO3 community. I have been a member of the official TYPO3 security team from 2004-2008. Since May, 2009 I am a TYPO3 TRYDIVER ;-).
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