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 31
Why TYPOlight rocks …
Evaluation, General, Online, Software
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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.
Jul 21
( IMAP + LDAP ) + pam_access = not working
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Having a setup of Postfix/Cyrus IMAP using LDAP-based user account/mailbox management I tried to extend this by pam_access today for disabling some of the mailboxes without deleting them. pam_access is a plugin for PAM, the Pluggable Authentication Modules, used to reject or grant access depending on a user’s name or origin of request. In a setup as described before this seems to be useful for disabling selected mailboxes e.g. to temporarily lock out tardy payers.
Jul 13
Today I’m providing information on my efforts to get a running installation of Zimbra Collaborative Suite using its Open Source Edition. It’s being installed onto a server running an up-to-date 2008.0 installation of Gentoo Linux. It’s a vServer and I tried to install from source first. But then I found a very useful tutorial putting a binary distribution of Zimbra CS into a Debian-like context running in chroot.
Jun 27
Zend has released beta of its new major version 7.0 of PHP IDE “Studio”. This new release continues to built on freely available Eclipse including several third-party packages freely available as well. These are combined with some packages maintained by Zend providing the benefit of using Zend Studio instead of compiling an IDE starting with Eclipse/PDT yourself. Being introduced to test this release I’m writing here about my first impressions. I beg for your pardon if you are bothered me focusing on disadvantages and bugs. It’s up to Zend to promote the benefits. So I consider things being in balance.
Jun 23
So the excerpt is already indicating it: it’s possible to have a Gentoo distribution running on a Strato VServer. I was cycling through trying to install Gentoo, failing due to server not coming up properly after rebooting (not providing any logfile or similar), considering switch to Debian on this single server for the sake of simplicity, then falling back to praising benefits of a homogeneous set of servers sharing one Linux distro for several days now. After tweaking some things I finally got a server responding to pings, responding to SSH login requests.
Mar 24
Any developer knows the worth of a good IDE increasing speed of software development. Working with PHP for several years now I started to use Zend’s Studio in 2003. Back in those days it was an outstanding product featuring opportunities missing in competitors’ software if any was available.
But today requirements have changed. Supporting available frameworks, a good JavaScript editor as well as JavaScript debugging, additional languages like Ruby have all become must-haves for an uptodate web IDE eligibly called as such. And since I would like to benefit from such revisions I started my quest for an alternative to the currently in-use Zend Studio 5.5, which is including some annoying bugs as well …
Dec 24
Find attached my version of a runscript used to start/stop Darwin Streaming Server and related Streaming Admin Server under Gentoo Linux. The script provides basic actions for starting and stopping and in addition supports restarting as well as checking current status of either DSS or its Admin Server.
For installation follow these instructions:
- Get the attached script and download it to your server into folder /etc/init.d.
- Change to that folder typing these commands:
# cd /etc/init.d # gunzip dss.gz # chmod 755 dss # rc-update add dss default
- This will install runscript to start your DSS automatically each time the server is booting.
Dec 23
Installing Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3 under Linux
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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 »
