Monotype’s fonts.com has started to offer self-hosting your web fonts on subscribing with annual payment. This is great news as it faces one of our major cons on using its service due to very frequent high loads on servers providing remotely hosted web fonts. Continue reading »
Dec 23
On (partial) evaluation of phpDesigner
Evaluation, Online, Software, Software Development
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For years now I have been looking for some IDE to replace my previously favoured Zend Studio (regarding versions up to 5.5 inclusively) serving high satisfaction. This time I stumbled over phpDesigner 7.2.5 … I haven’t heard of it before and so gave it a try. Continue reading »
Jan 17
Fixing WebDAV support in MacOS X and on iPad
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Though several sites claim Mac OS X properly supporting WebDAV thus making any connection to a WebDAV server a snap you might encounter some trouble on “snapping”. Windows clients properly connect to your Apache 2.2 based installation of mod_dav. Using Finder connection fails due to invalid server address. Using Terminal for invoking command mount_webdav everything’s working, though. While Pages on iPad properly connects to your server, but GoodReader fails to do so, you are stuck in same situation as me. Here is the solution … Continue reading »
Jan 10
Make Your Contao Installation Least-Writable
General, Maintenance, Online, Software, Software Development
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If you consider on file permissions in setting up Contao Content Management System you may ask what files and folders need to be writable to the webserver at least. Here is a quite short list I’m used to work with. It’s sufficient to enable managing CSS files as part of a theme as well as installing most (but not all) available extensions. Continue reading »
Dec 31
Stop Wasting Your Contao-Based Site’s Analytics
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Google Analytics is the contemporary way of tracking your site’s visitors and analyzing where they come from, what they are interested in and what hard- and software they are using. However, while updating your site’s content and design you’ll probably go and check it in different browsers on several devices. It takes extra efforts to keep those visits out of your analytics results unless using static connection to internet enabling address-based filtering. For Contao CMS there is a new extension to the rescue simplifying use of customer variables in Analytics for segmented tracking. Continue reading »
Oct 03
toxA published a new extension to Contao CMS these days providing new insert tag to embed a locally stored video in a web page for playback supporting either Adobe Flash-based playback through Interlake Media‘s player freely available for personal and commercial purposes or by HTML5 native video playback support. Thus it’s possible to provide videos for iPhone/iPod/iPad playback as well providing H264 MP4 videos in addition to the FLV/FV4 version. The extension is available for download from Contao’s Extension Catalog. The full manual is online here.
Oct 03
Galleries with Mixed Arrangements in Contao
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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 »
Apr 11
Virtualization of Gentoo using OpenVZ #2
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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 »
Dec 31
Why TYPOlight rocks …
Evaluation, General, Online, Software
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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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