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I did an amazing discovery today. There is a PHP constant called PHP_EOL you can use instead of "\n". This will make your script cross platform.

I honestly did not know about this. I'm happy I learnt something new today.

A TYPO3 installation is a complex mix of TYPO3-core, TYPO3-setup and extensions which makes every installation unique. Therefore it is difficult to automatically detect the health of a TYPO3 installation, especially when new security concerns arise or different systems, extensions or partners are interacting. Currently available system-monitoring software, like nagios, can check the hardware state and much more but not the proper setup of TYPO3. . .

The DAM development team is proud to announce the release of version 1.1.3 of the DAM.

This is the first in a series of 12 monthly bugfix releases for the 1.1 branch. Every month a new bugfix version will be released that contains
the latest fixes. The next release is planned for Friday the 5th of February.

Big thanks go out to all the people who have spotted bugs, supplied patches and tested the dam. We could not have done this without. . .

I recently released DAM 1.1.2 as you may have noticed. And one or two releases a year is just not enough. I'm going to do monthly bugfix releases from now on. Even if only one pesky bug is fixed, a bugfix release will be baked that month.

This means that the Mantis roadmap is no longer very usefull for bugfix releases on the 1.1 branch since we will release anyway and the bugs that are not fixed will be moved forward to the next. . .

The DAM development team is proud to announce the release of version 1.1.2 of the DAM. Also known as; 'Bugfix Release for the Bugfix Release after "The Big Sleep"'.

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I came accross two great Thunderbird add-ons:

• Colored Diffs
• Quicktext

Colored Diffs was mentioned on the TYPO3 dev list as a solution for syntax highlighting the diffs attached to posts on the core list. It's realy a great. . .

As explained in a previous article, we can save some headers by enabling cookie-free domains. Here is my configuration for Nginx. Only requests for static files should end up on this domain, so we don't put anything fancy in here.

In Nginx, the old Apache static file cache configuration no longer works. We will need to write a new one.

We only want to redirect to a static file if a number of conditions are met. With mod_rewrite you can just chain a number of RewriteCond's together and follow them up with a RewriteRule. In Nginx there is no way to directly chain together a series of if statements. Nesting is also not allowed. We. . .

Nginx comes with a lot of modules. You can read all about them on the Nginx wiki. The syntax of the configuration files differs from Apache syntax, but up to now everything I need is possible. There are also a lot of nifty new features like an empty gif configuration. We can use this to serve an empty gif right from memory without having to. . .