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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. . .

From this moment until it is no longer needed, this webiste will warn IE6 users that they are using an outdated browser. I know, it's childish, just like many sites warned you (and some still do) that you need browser X to properly view the site, but we need to take a stand!

Last week I was searching for a bit of a performance boost for my site running on a Linode package. It's pretty OK, but not 'zippy' at all. During my search I came across a lot of interesting articles about Squid, lighttpd, <span style="display: none;"> </span>Varnish and Nginx.

A while ago I updated my Ports list and upgraded all outdated ports. This gave me a shiny new PHP 5.3. PHP 5.3 is nice but it has deprecated a lot of functions and changed some other functions. This is all well and good, but now it spews a torrent of 'Notices', 'Deprecated' and 'Warning' messages when running TYPO3 4.1 and TYPO3 4.2 sites.

I can still get PHP 5.3 if I install the php5-devel package. If I really want to run that I'll compile. . .

Disclaimer:

This is just an example of how to produce profiler output and analyse it, not a real attempt at optimising the extension manager (though that should be done too!).

In the previous article you can read how to install KCachegrind on OSX. If you are on Ubuntu or any other flavour of Linux, chances are that

After starting KCachegrind for the first time I was shocked to see the huge ugly font it used. This font can be changed however. It took me a while to figure out where and how but here is the solution.

The base KDE configuration resides in: /opt/local/share/config. Take a look at the 'kdeglobals ' file to see the kde base settings. Your local settings are stored in /Users/yourname/.kde/share/config. Open up. . .

This article is only relevant for users of OSX. 

Coming from a Gentoo world to OSX, now and then I want to install some software that is not available pre-built for OSX. I like to use more recent Apache 2 for local testing and I also like to use Gimp and InkScape, so I use MacPorts to fetch and compile all the Open. . .