Simulating conditions with pure HTML/CSS

There are many ways to assign extra styles to the menu item of the active page. TYPO3 for example provides ACT in Typoscript to do so. But did you know that this can be solved with pure HTML/CSS?

Styling weblinks with CSS

CSS gives you so many powerful methods of styling weblinks. We not only have pseudo classes to distinguish between visited/unvisited and hovered/activated links, but also those highly configurable attribute selectors to individually style all types of protocols (mailto, https, ...) and document types (pdf, mp3, ...)

unreadable output of MySQL console client

Are you a fan of using MySQL console client? Have you ever experienced the unreadable chaos of table data, when doing queries on tables with lots of columns? The usability of this tool often ends with the first linebreak.

The solution to get some more readable output is so easy: Terminate your query with \G instead of ; or \g

TypoScript collection

I just stumbled over a collection of Typoscript by Bernd Wilke. Maybe it is helpful for someone: www.pi-phi.de/t3v4/25.html (page in german language)

Broken pdfinfo shipped with Zotero [fixed]

To index and search PDF files within Zotero, you need the Xpdf tool pdfinfo. As it seems that most versions of pdfinfo are either not compatible with Zotero or broken otherwise, I decided to build it from scratch and provide it for download.

Zotero as reference management software

Searching and collecting research sources without an appropriate method and tool might lead into time-consuming confusion. Looking for a way to avoid a growing unstructured collection of 3x5 cards/files, I stumbled over the reference management software Zotero. And it rocks!

Mail queue statistics for TYPO3 mailing lists

Last sunday, Luc de Louw published more statistics on the TYPO3 mailing lists. We can now peek into some charts about the mail queue.