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Take Huge And Giant Screenshots

  • Sep 16, 2016
  • tagged: Howto

Did you know: Firefox lets you take really huge screenshots in one go with images that contain all the contents of the browser window. Not just what you can see. Read on to see what you need to do.

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Investigate Disk Usage With 'ncdu'

  • Sep 08, 2016
  • Update: Sep 09, 2016
  • tagged: Linux

Today I was to install something for a customer in his shared hosting account. What was eating up most of the available disk space? ncdu is a phantastic tool on the commandline to answer that. Only: It wasn’t available. So I tried to install it as a regular user - and succeeded! Thank you jweiland for fullfilling the requirements for that. And this is what I did.

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Upgrade to Python 2.7.11 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

  • Jan 09, 2016
  • Update: Dec 20, 2016
  • tagged: Python

On an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS you should not touch the Python version of the system. But you can compile other Python versions from source and use those runtimes with VirtualEnv. This post shows how.

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Upgrade TYPO3 from 4.5 to 6.2

  • Dec 18, 2015
  • Update: Mar 10, 2016
  • tagged: TYPO3

Rumors say upgrading a TYPO3 installation from 4.5 to 6.2 is easy and straightforward. My experience: It’s not! As usual it is the extensions that are causing problems. Here is my very own checklist of upgrade steps. It has not come to an end yet!

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TYPO3 Usergroup Meeting in Münster

  • Nov 09, 2015
  • Update: Nov 11, 2015
  • tagged: TYPO3

We weren’t too many. But it was absolutely great and useful. Why? Read on!

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A New Task For An Old Server

  • Oct 24, 2015
  • Update: Nov 01, 2015
  • tagged: T3Docs

Work in progress - not finished yet!

Once there was a server srv123. This post is for insiders and describes what needs to be done to get this rather old server ready for a new task in October 2015: Switch to the new Sphinx theme t3SphinxThemeRtd for TYPO3 documentation.

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Drag And Drop From Jetbrains IDE

In short: Use drag and drop instead of copy and paste to enter the filepath in a terminal window (video).

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TYPO3 Documentation: What's Version 0.0?

  • Jul 29, 2015
  • Update: Jul 30, 2015
  • tagged: T3Docs

I’m working on a new theme for the TYPO3 documentation. If you want to learn about the details of that work see my notes. The theme isn’t deployed yet. But individual manuals are available with that new theme on a manual and experimental basis already.

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A New Theme for Docs.TYPO3.Org

  • Jun 16, 2015
  • Update: Jun 29, 2016
  • tagged: TYPO3

It’s time to switch to a new theme on docs.typo3.org. Read here about the development, how things are going and how to contribute.

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1001 Tips

All kind of tips.

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Perfect Service

I have on of those Yubikey Neo usb sticks that are hyped so much these days to find out how things work in reality. The idea of a movable device that is able to store AND USE a PGP key securely has intrigued me for quite a while.

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Yawl Sailing Near Lemmer

We spent some lovely days at de Kikkert with yawl sailing in Friesland NL. Here are some impressions.

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LiveReload to please the Web Developer

  • Apr 22, 2015
  • Update: Jun 26, 2016
  • tagged: WebDev

LiveReload can make your life as a web developer so much easier. Find out how.

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A Question about SVG

At the moment this problem keeps me busy. Can you help?

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Easy Solution Power Box

Playing with electronics or Arduino? Here’s a “quick’n dirty” solution for cutting down the time to get the power supply set up.

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About Kickstarting TYPO3 Extensions

  • Mar 27, 2015
  • Update: Apr 15, 2015
  • tagged: TYPO3

My notes about using the kickstarter to create TYPO3 extensions go here. Will be updated as needed.

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Enigmail on Thunderbird requires Gnupg2

  • Mar 23, 2015

Enigmail on Thunderbird complains these days that it will soon require Gnupg version 2.

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TYPO3 Server Team Sprint

  • Mar 22, 2015

I took part in the TYPO3 Server Team Sprint March 20-22, 2015 in Frankfurt at DKD.

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About Docker

  • Mar 21, 2015
  • Update: Sep 21, 2018
  • tagged: Docker

About Docker ...

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About Discourse

  • Mar 21, 2015

This is work in progress!

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Solr for docs.typo3.org

  • Mar 20, 2015

This is work in progress!

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PHP Syntax Highlighting in Sphinx

Sphinx uses ‘Pygments’ for syntax highlighting. And Pygments does a syntax check first. For PHP this check only succeeds for code starting with <?php unless you call Pygments with the parameter startinline=True. Problem: Sphinx will not let you specify that parameter. Solution: Add some lines to conf.py to change the default behavior of the PHPLexer in Pygments.

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TypoScript to Remember

  • Feb 23, 2015
  • Update: Feb 25, 2016
  • tagged: TYPO3

This is TypoScript I’d like to remember. Will be updated as needed.

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Directory of Online Services

  • Feb 20, 2015
  • Update: Sep 20, 2018
  • tagged: WebDev

Ongoing attempt to collect useful online services - mostly for web development. We’ll see what we find. Will be updated as needed.

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Send JSON from Fluid to JQuery

How do you hand over data from the server to the Javascript of an HTML5 document? Here’s what I found out. Currently I’m talking about TYPO3 6.2, Extbase/Fluid and JQuery 1.11.2.

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TYPO3 TypoScript Tricks

  • Feb 11, 2015
  • Update: Jun 01, 2016
  • tagged: TYPO3

How to test whether an extension is loaded in a TypoScript condition.

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Linklist Web Development

  • Feb 01, 2015
  • Update: Nov 11, 2016
  • tagged: WebDev

Quicklinks for the web developer. Just starting! Will be updated as needed.

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TYPO3 Documentation Tips

  • Jan 27, 2015
  • Update: Nov 11, 2015
  • tagged: TYPO3 T3Docs

Tips to become a happy TYPO3 documenter. This post will be updated as needed.

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Sphinx-Doc Installation Steps

This post is about how to install the Sphinx documentation tools on your machine and how to get going with the first steps. Having done this you can render TYPO3 documentation projects at the commandline. For Linux, Mac and Windows. This post will be updated as needed.

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Assets of the Information Hunter Gatherer

Cool sources of information! Will be updated as needed.

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Not lost but found

  • Jan 18, 2015
  • Update: Aug 06, 2018
  • tagged: General

“Fundstücke” - pieces I found - just so. Will be updated as needed. If I wouldn’t note them here I would waste a lot of time with searching later...

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Explore this!

  • Jan 18, 2015
  • Update: Aug 05, 2018
  • tagged: General

Ideas I want to keep for times of idleness - just so. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for wisdom about typography

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jun 25, 2018
  • tagged: Typography

Ongoing attempt to collect links and documentation about typography. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for wisdom about Ubuntu

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Nov 21, 2018
  • tagged: Ubuntu

Ongoing attempt to collect clever stuff about Ubuntu. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Youtrack

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Feb 02, 2015
  • tagged: General

Ongoing attempt to collect knowledge about Youtrack. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Vagrant

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Nov 10, 2015
  • tagged: Vagrant

Ongoing attempt to collect links and documentation about Vagrant. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Twitter Bootstrap

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jul 12, 2018
  • tagged: CSS WebDev

Ongoing attempt to collect know how about the Twitter Bootstrap framework. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about TYPO3

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Apr 17, 2016
  • tagged: TYPO3

Ongoing attempt to collect links and documentation about TYPO3. New links will go here first and may later be outsourced into a separate post. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Ruby

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Mar 21, 2015
  • tagged: Ruby

Ongoing attempt to collect links and documentation about Ruby. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Python

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Oct 30, 2018
  • tagged: Python

Ongoing attempt to collect links and documentation about TYPO3. New links will go here first and may later be outsourced into a separate post. Will be updated as needed.

Updated on Oct 30, 2018

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Looking for Wisdom about MySql

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Oct 19, 2015
  • tagged: WebDev

Ongoing attempt to collect links and documentation about MySql. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Javascript

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jun 26, 2018
  • tagged: Javascript

Ongoing attempt to collect clever stuff about Javascript. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about JQuery

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jul 02, 2018
  • tagged: JQuery

Ongoing attempt to collect clever stuff about JQuery. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Git

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Nov 09, 2018
  • tagged: Git

Ongoing attempt to collect knowhow about Git. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Cryptography

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jul 09, 2015
  • tagged: Security

Ongoing attempt to collect links and information about cryptography. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about CSS

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Oct 16, 2018
  • tagged: CSS

Ongoing attempt to collect links and documentation about CSS. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Bash

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Sep 20, 2018
  • tagged: Bash Linux

Ongoing attempt to collect knowledge and “good” links about the Linux Bash. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Arduino

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Nov 24, 2018
  • tagged: Arduino

Ongoing attempt to collect know how about the Arduino. Will be updated as needed.

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Looking for Wisdom about Ansible

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Apr 07, 2016
  • tagged: Ansible

Ongoing attempt to collect links and documentation about Ansible. Will be updated as needed.

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About Webdesign

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Aug 03, 2018
  • tagged: Webdesign

Will be updated as needed.

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About VPN

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: May 28, 2018
  • tagged: VPN

In this blog post I collect links and knowledge about VPN (virtual private network) technology I will update the post as needed.

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About TYPO3 Flexible Content Elements (FCE)

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Apr 09, 2015
  • tagged: TYPO3

How can you create your own content elements in TYPO3 CMS if you are not a PHP programmer? That topic definitely deserves a blogpost of its own. And this is it! Will be updated as needed.

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About Sublimetext

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Nov 26, 2018
  • tagged: Editor

Collecting knowledge about the SublimeText editor.

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About Security

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Oct 23, 2018
  • tagged: Security

Will be updated as needed.

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About Sailing

Will be updated as needed.

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About PHP

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jun 15, 2018
  • tagged: Computing

Will be updated as needed.

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About Online Shops

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Apr 11, 2015
  • tagged: Computing

Will be updated as needed.

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About Oh-My-Zsh

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jun 22, 2018
  • tagged: Linux

The homepage claims: “Oh-My-Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration. It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and a few things that make you shout... ‘Oh My ZSH!’”

I’ve decided to use it more intensely. So I’ll have to take some notes And I will be doing that here!

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About Node.js

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jun 14, 2015
  • tagged: Computing

Will be updated as needed.

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About Lisp

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jun 29, 2018
  • tagged: Lisp

Collecting know how about Lisp.

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About Gui Programming

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jul 19, 2016
  • tagged: Gui

In this blogpost I collect links and knowledge about “Gui programming”. Will be updated as needed.

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About Flask

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jan 27, 2016
  • tagged: WebDev Flask

In this blogpost I collect links and knowledge about “Web development with Flask”. Will be updated as needed.

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About Email Mailings

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Feb 02, 2016
  • tagged: WebDev

Email mailings are something special. Should I learn something I’ll add it here.

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About Data Formats

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Jul 21, 2018

About data formats. This blog post is updated as needed.

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About Computer Graphics

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Update: Aug 02, 2018
  • tagged: Graphics

About graphics, charts, diagrams, ...

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Using Linux

  • Jan 14, 2015
  • Update: Nov 12, 2018
  • tagged: Linux

Ongoing attempt to to collect tips and tricks about how to get things done on Linux. Will be updated as needed.

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Eureka Tower Carpark Illusions

Yesterday evening at our regular monthly TYPO3 usergroup here in Münster we talked about these great “3D Chalk Drawings” illusions besides other stuff. I don’t want to loose this great example of using illusions out of sight so I’m giving it a post here. And why is it “TYPO3” related? Because it’s about usability and user guidance und user experience as well. And we talked about it!

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PyCharm

  • Jan 10, 2015
  • Update: Jul 26, 2018
  • tagged: Python

Taking notes about and around PyCharm. Will be updated as needed.

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Just thinking

  • Jan 01, 2015
  • Update: Jul 27, 2018

My notepad, my scratchpad. Texts will change here. I’m using this page for convenient writing.

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Thinkpad T-430

  • Dec 14, 2014
  • Update: Apr 04, 2016
  • tagged: Hardware

This is a place to collect knowhow about the Lenovo Thinkpad T-430.

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Troublesome Switching between Tabs and Spaces in PhpStorm

  • Dec 03, 2014
  • Update: Mar 28, 2015
  • tagged: Linux QandA

Added a “see also”.

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Linux Scripts for Easy YouTrack Installation

  • Dec 02, 2014
  • Update: Feb 12, 2015
  • tagged: Linux

Credit:

Much of this post is a reproduction from JetBrains article “Linux Scripts for Easy YouTrack Installation”. The intention is to keep that recipe at a “warm and safe place” here and to leave amendments and extras I found necessary when installing YouTrack on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 LTS.

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Howto SSH

  • Nov 24, 2014
  • Update: Sep 26, 2018
  • tagged: Howto Linux

Snippets, howtos, tips and tricks around SSH. This post will be updated as needed.

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Extend an Extbase Domain Model "On the Fly"

  • Nov 21, 2014
  • Update: Mar 11, 2015
  • tagged: Extbase

Thanks to Sebastian Fischer it can be easy now to extend the domain model of an existing extension. Sebastian presented his TYPO3 CMS extension ‘extender’ at the T3CRR 2014 in Essen. This post gives a very short description and howto.

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Basic Installation of Sphinx and Ablog

With Sphinx and Ablog you can generate static files for your weblog from reStructuredText. This post explains the basics of the installation.

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Using Rsync

  • Nov 17, 2014
  • Update: May 08, 2017
  • tagged: Linux Howto

This Howto explains how you can use SSH and Rsync to copy files from a remote server to your local machine fast and comfortably.

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ReST: Builders and Writers

  • Nov 15, 2014
  • Update: Jan 13, 2015
  • tagged: ReST

Ongoing writing and link collection about reStructuredText builders and writers.

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T3DocTeam

  • Nov 14, 2014
  • Update: Nov 19, 2014
  • tagged: TYPO3 T3Docs

T3DocTeam and TYPO3 Documentation

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Techniques in this Blog

  • Nov 12, 2014
  • Update: Feb 06, 2015
  • tagged: ReST

THIS POST IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

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TYPO3-Camp Rhein-Ruhr 2014

  • Nov 10, 2014
  • tagged: TYPO3

Wow, that really has been a fantastic event: TYPO3camp RheinRuhr 2014. Many thanks to the organizers, the participants and the Unperfekthaus Essen. What a great location to meet in.

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Customization options of text roles

  • Nov 05, 2014
  • tagged: ReST

Huh - what is this? You may know that directives can have options, but text roles? You’re right. They don’t have options. But they can have customization options. And this post is about what fancy stuff you can do with it.

Keywords: ReST, text roles, interpreted text, Docutils, Sphinx

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Using Git

  • Oct 30, 2014
  • Update: Jun 29, 2015
  • tagged: Git QandA

Things I want to keep: How do I use Git and services like Github?

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Nanny

  • Oct 19, 2014
  • Update: Aug 08, 2016
  • tagged: Family

In 1924 my mother was seven years old and lived in Münster. Her mother had given her the name “Ferdinande” and was very proud of that choice. But little Ferdinande never liked the name and always called herself “Nanny”. Now it’s many years later and my mother passed away (Nanny, *1917 - †2016).

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TYPO3 Contribution Howto

  • Oct 15, 2014
  • Update: Apr 02, 2015
  • tagged: TYPO3

A post about that important Contribution_Walkthrough_Tutorials in the Wiki - which is a link that I have to look up again and again myself and thus note here!

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Strict Standards Trouble

  • Sep 25, 2014
  • Update: Oct 28, 2015
  • tagged: TYPO3

Updating a TYPO3 4.4 installation should be easy. But you may encounter “strict standards trouble”. Keywords: TYPO3 4.4, PHP 5.4, fatal error, solution

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More on ABlog Internationalization

  • Sep 20, 2014
  • Update: Sep 27, 2014
  • tagged: Ablog

Let me explain that Per Page Internationalization for ABlog proposal a bit more.

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Per Page Internationalization for ABlog

  • Sep 19, 2014
  • tagged: Ablog

ABlog is Ahmet Bakan’s fantastic Sphinx extension for creating blogs. At the moment as of version 0.3 it lacks support for switching languages on a per post or per page basis. ABlog is OpenSource software and available from Github.This post offers a working solution.

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A Decoder for objects.inv

A new commandline tool to decode Sphinx inventories.

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Server to Server Copy using WGET with FTP

Use wget to copy an installation if one machine offers FTP only.

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How To split an SQLdump by tables

  • Aug 15, 2008
  • Update: Dec 22, 2015
  • tagged: Database

This blogpost describes a Python script that reads a big dump created by ‘mysqldump’ and splits it into many files that only deal with one table each. The script can be found at github.com/marble/python-splitsql.

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