I was recently asked to review a new book from Packt Publishing, TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce, written by Inese Liberte and Edgars Karlsons. TYPO3 is an excellent content management system designed for all types of websites, but there is very little information about building e-commerce shops – until now that is. While my TYPO3 experience is… Read more »
Posts By: Dan Osipov
Arachnophilia
Shooting spider webs can sometimes be tricky. Exposition is probably the toughest to get right. Camera meters are frequently fooled by the background, and the thin spider web ends up overexposed or blends into the background. What I found to work best is to position a bright web against a dark background, set the exposure… Read more »
The future according to Facebook
I’m back from the f8 conference in San Francisco, and here are some of my thoughts and observations. Facebook introduced some new ideas, and expanded the existing products. The big announcements were centered around the Open Graph. It essentially allows you to treat any content on the web (identifiable by a unique URL) as an… Read more »
And the Snow Keeps Falling
Snowpocalypse, 2010
Multimedia cookbook
My book is about to be released, and some promotional materials have been released into the open to help readers evaluate the type of material covered, and writing style. Here are the tutorials that have been released: TYPO3 for Connecting External APIs: Flickr and Youtube Rendering Images in TYPO3 4.3: Part 1 Rendering Images in… Read more »