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• Internet service provider Alice unsolicitedly acts as content provider

  Oct 9, 2008 Since a few days, the Internet service provider Alice (Hansenet / Telecom Italia) abuses my DSL connection by showing unsolicited advertisements. I cannot accept this behavior.

• Thoughts about classifying objects in a digitalized world

  Oct 4, 2008 While reading for my thesis, I found some interesting articles about order and hierarchies in the web. One central issue in a digitalized world is the question of how to classify objects.

• Fixing locale problems for dates in TYPO3

  Sep 30, 2008 Sometimes, localization of dates in TYPO3 seems not to work as expected. Of course it does, but finding the right configuration can be puzzling and time consuming. One reason can be the confusing variety of locale declarations.

• Security issue in TYPO3 Extension Secure Directory (kw_secdir)

  Sep 19, 2008 Today, the TYPO3 security team released a collective security bulletin. Since I am the author of one extension which was listed in the bulletin (kw_secdir), I'd like to comment this a little bit. Especially the severity of "high" sounds evil, but it's IMHO less dangerous than some might think.

• How to find hidden TYPO3 features?

  Aug 4, 2008 From time to time, TYPO3 core devs and insiders leak secret knowledge in the mailinglists. One can find questions about "how to do this?" with answers surprisingly revealing undocumented features. Read on for some hints about how to find those features without asking.

• Nested domains in a single TYPO3 pagetree

  Jul 31, 2008 A common scenario in maintaining websites is to have a handful of websites, each with little content and a single person who is in charge of the content. Why not throw everything into a single TYPO3 installation?

• Getting Things Done with Chandler

  Jul 8, 2008 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

  May 29, 2008 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

  May 12, 2008 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)

  May 9, 2008 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.