On creating a custom ribbon UI XML definition in a VSTO project using Visual Studio 2010 with an Office 2010 edition you might run into trouble on testing your customized ribbon in Office 2007 as ribbon probably won’t include any custom tab or button at runtime without showing any error or similar. The issue is related to XML namespaces. Continue reading »
Nov 11
Installing Contao
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Contao is a powerful content management system taking little efforts to install on a server. This post is available to describe a way I’m frequently used to set it up on customer sites. It’s basically trying to prevent world-writability to any script, requiring special access to server. If you are trying to install Contao in a webspace provided by a major web hoster it might be as simple as uploading files to server and running install. But if you are running dedicated root server and know your webserver’s user and group it might be an option to try this guide for installing Contao in a more restrictive setup. 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.
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 »
Oct 12
PHP in Windows Azure Cloud
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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.
Oct 07
Embedding SWF in PHPWCMS
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Looking for an out-of-box solution for embedding SWF movie in PHPWCMS I didn’t succeed. Content Part “Multimedia” is doing something strange by embedding one object tag inside of another one and it’s including parameters not required for some vanilla embedding of SWF e.g. to have a small Flash animation for on-page navigation or advertisement. The other Flash-related content part “Flashplayer” is integrating a Flash-based player for several kinds of multimedia files and thus not providing clean and simple solution here as well.
Oct 07
Dojo in Action on a new Advertising Website
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I’d like to announce final release of an advertising website build on Dojo Toolkit to achieve a living presentation of information including visible features like multi-layer web design and animations as well as features behind the scene including automatic column break insertion and AJAJ for asynchronous retrieval of content defined in YAML. By implementing visuals in JavaScript instead of relying on plugins like Flash this site is available to mobile users, too. Search engines get a reduced HTML version of contained information to enhance possibility to index the site’s content.
As a constantly developing project there are plans to integrate further kinds of multimedia as well as to try additional ways of navigation to make those new kinds of multimedia accessible in a clear and simple way.
You’re invited to take a look at it.
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 »
