Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

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Today I finished reading “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware” by Andy Hunt. Let me start by saying, that I’m really glad I picked up and finished this book right before the New Year. Why? It’s a checklist I’m putting on my New Years resolutions. The book starts out by describing the differences between… Read more »

Water

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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. –The Rime of the Ancient Mariner      

Using NGINX as load balancer for TYPO3

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Nginx has emerged as one of the popular webservers to run the TYPO3 framework. Advantages to using Nginx are that it is lightweight, fast, and reliable – unlike Apache, which has a much bigger footprint in terms of resources. Nginx is frequently set up to handle static files or cached pages (thanks to its memcached… Read more »

No Cache reason

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Now when calling $TSFE->set_no_cache(), a reason can be provided and logged, making it easier to find why cache was disabled on a page. Ex: $TSFE->set_no_cache(‘Reached an unstable condition in extension xyz’); More info: Fix #11669: Provide a reason for why $TSFE->set_no_cache() has been triggered http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=11669

Windows 7 update: Black Screen of Death

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Well, I asked Microsoft for more variety in Windows, and they listened! Proof? Windows 7 Black Screen of Death! That’s right, I was tired of the age old Blue Screen of Death, and asked Microsoft to spice it up – change the colors or whatnot. And Microsoft listened. Windows 7 = my idea.