TYPOfree::Blurb

PHP_EOL goodness

michiel@typofree.org — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:08:00 +0100

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.

Caretaker

michiel@typofree.org — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:24:00 +0100

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...

Dam 1.1.3 has been released

michiel@typofree.org — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:00:00 +0100

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 containsthe 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...

DAM release speed

michiel@typofree.org — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:48:00 +0100

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 version on the...

DAM 1.1.2 has been released

michiel@typofree.org — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:08:00 +0100

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"'.

Help save MySQL

michiel@typofree.org — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:21:00 +0100

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html I, Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches. Without your immediate help Oracle might get to own MySQL any day now. By writing to the European Commission (EC) you can support this cause and help secure the future development of the product MySQL as an Open Source project.What this text is...

Two great Thunderbird add-ons

michiel@typofree.org — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:13:00 +0200

I came accross two great Thunderbird add-ons: Colored DiffsQuicktext 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 help. When I was looking at the other Thunerbird add-ons, I also came accross Quicktext. You can use Quicktext to create templates for your posts. This is great if you often post a RFC, bugfix, feature request or a FYI. You...

Enabling cookie free domains in Nginx

michiel@typofree.org — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:30:00 +0200

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.

Enabling nc_staticfilecache in TYPO3 Nginx

michiel@typofree.org — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:22:00 +0200

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 can however dream up our own variables and...

TYPO3 Nginx, enable gzip and expires headers

michiel@typofree.org — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:22:00 +0200

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 read the clear.gif file from disk: location = /clear.gif { empty_gif;} That's cool! :-) But setting up...