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 »
Monthly Archives:: December 2009
Water
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
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
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
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.