In Contao CMS it’s a snap to create an image gallery with several images supporting lightbox effect including forward/backward navigation through all available images of a gallery. Select an article on a page, add a content element of type gallery and select all images from file manager to be included in this gallery. Contao lets you select a common width and/or height to automatically compute thumbnails arrange in a matrix. for lightbox effect you need to check option “Full-size view/new windows” and integrate mootools template moo_slimbox.js in your page layout. That’s it – a well-sorted set of homogenic thumbnails to be clickable and browsable in lightbox. But what if you don’t like such homogenic grid for laying out thumbnails. This blog tries to provide a solution for this … Continue reading »
Galleries with Mixed Arrangements in Contao
Yet another blog post on iPad
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 »
Virtualization of Gentoo using OpenVZ #2
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 »
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 »
Why TYPOlight rocks …
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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Installing Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3 under Linux
Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) is Apple’s Open Source variant of commercially available Quicktime Streaming Server. In currently available version 6.0.3 there is a lot broken when trying to build that server from source under Linux (e.g. Gentoo Linux in our case). Continue reading »
