Contao, formerly known as Typolight, comes with a lot of extensions and plugins available through its Extension Repository. In there is a little extension called “hyphenation”, providing support for frontend integration of Google-hosted JavaScript-based hyphenator script. Its integrating well in Contao implying little change to existing system UI. But as of current release the plugin includes a bug heavily limiting its capabilities. Continue reading »
Jun 17
On trying out support for webfonts in all contemporary browsers using CSS3 @font-face container I had some trouble on support by Safari 4 on Windows. This was very astonishing to me since Safari is promoted as the browser initially supporting TrueType and OpenType fonts this way.
After some tests I found Safari (at least on Windows computers) failing to properly derive and support small caps font variant. Webfonts aren’t used in Safari unless you remove rule on using font-variant small-caps whenever you select the font family added to your browser’s font database.
May 28
So this is just another post on first impressions after testing new Apple iPad. Though there are a lot of posts on the net already, I consider quite most of them trying to be as critical as possible and so find issues not existing actually. Today iPad sale has started in Germany and as a software developer I didn’t hesitate any moment to place my pre-order on Apple Store a few days before. I won’t repeat to tell you things you. might have read all over the net for weeks and months now. Though I’d like to falsify some facts others have promoted recently. Continue reading »
Apr 12
This post is basically intended to collect some information currently hard to find on Google. I wrote with the hope it might help someone else running into same or similar trouble as I did. It took several hours distributed over several days of investigation to finally fix a problem with my setup of Gentoo-based servers commonly authenticating against LDAP tree over PAM, Linux’ Pluggable Authentication Modules. Continue reading »
Apr 11
In my previous post I told you about some guides for installing vanilla Gentoo containers in a OpenVZ virtualization system. This time I’ll try to collect those things missing in template. Continue reading »
Apr 11
Hosters offer high-performance dedicated root servers for eligible monthly rates – at least some major Germany based hosters do so. Quad-core Intel i7 systems with 8 GB RAM for 50 EUR per month serve as a perfect start into server virtualization. And so it’s time to start your own virtual server farm. Continue reading »
Feb 01
The iPhone/iPad SDK 3.2 Beta is available for download by registered members of iPhone Developer Program now. While many pages on the net already promote technical specs on iPad there is little information on new software features being introduced in “iPhone OS 3.2″ such as PDF Generation and Custom Document Type Registration. Though the name might imply support on iPhone devices the docs clearly state that “iPhone OS 3.2″ isn’t supporting iPhone and iPod touch. Welcome on second class iPhone … Continue reading »
Dec 31
It was more like an accident when I found TYPOlight on looking for a CMS to host our company’s website as well as customers’ sites. Recently the latter ones have been hosted using PHPWCMS preferred for its fast page retrieval and intuitive backend GUI. This is different from most larger CMS such as Typo3 and papayaCMS. This report bases on experiences made on testing current release 2.7.6 ..
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Dec 24
From 2005 until early 2009 toxA was developing its own Web Content Management System (WCMS) and has recently abandoned its efforts to get a final release with updated page editors and suspended the development of toxA.CMS.
Nevertheless our website needs a face lift and so we are looking for a new WCMS providing easy customization and content management including all our requirements considered quite basic, such as internationalization and localization support and a flexible composition of pages using quite different types of content. These features must be available using a clean and easy-to-learn GUI as well as providing high performance on page retrieval.
Oct 12
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s new Cloud Computing System and provides opportunity to run your ASP.NET websites combined with permanently running “worker” applications and an integrated storage system. While promoting its support for C# and Basic it’s possible to run any other language or native application in there as well … and so it’s supporting PHP, too.
