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 (and how to fix it)
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.
Change Typoscript values at parsetime
Typoscript properties in the CONFIG section are usually defined once and at a certain point. But what if you have defined the value of a property at some place and like to add another one later in the parsing process?
addPItoST43?
TYPO3 sometimes drives me nuts. It happens that I come across cryptic function or property names, using them over and over again without having a clue, what its name stands for. t3lib_extMgm::addPItoST43() is one of them, although it is part of almost a billion TYPO3 extensions...
On Twitter...
- Mar, 11th: Reading "TYPO3 Multimedia Cookbook" by Dan Osipov: http://bit.ly/7CtX80 #TYPO3 #Book
- Mar, 9th: Are you already aware of the new #TYPO3 newsgroup for development of TYPO3 4.x core? subscribe via NNTP to typo3.projects.v4
- Mar, 9th: @dmitryd Trivial patets suck. Imagine somone patented pressing shift+key on keyboard.
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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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