Quick note about adding TYPO3 extension as a library
During developing a little TYPO3 extension currently I chose the option "Just include library" in the extension kickstarter. During development all went fine but after intergrating the extension on the production site, I couldn't get it up and running.
This short note about a failure which can cause many minutes of debugging should help you and me in the future to not forget to include the necessary TypoScript setup to make that thing work.
TYPO3 multi language & multi domain site with RealURL and language menu
This is a step-by-step tutorial which describes in detail how to setup TYPO3 for a multilingual website with "domain language switching". It will describe how to properly configure RealURL, extend it's configuration with simple PHP statements in the RealURL configuration file and last but not least, probably the most important thing: the language switch menu with cross domain support.
I started with a clean TYPO3 installation and created two page trees in order to test the setup in a multiple page tree setup. Therefore I defined that on my local Linux box typo3-ml.local listens to the default language, while typo3-ml-en.local and typo3-ml-it.local - you guessed it - listens to the english and italian language versions of the page tree.
Dark CSS theme for TYPO3 extension syntaxhighlight
I was very impatient of the default CSS styles which comes shipped with the syntax highlight extension tx_syntaxhighlight. There is already a console style but I felt uncomfortable with it.
So I searched the web for some dark GeSHi styles and stumbled upon the Geshi CSS Pack created by Mark Story. I took it as a base and mixed in some colors I was used to see in the symfony project documentation.
Yahoo Pipes: Twitter Map Search
*Sigh* My plans to write a new extension for TYPO3 end in smoke after I fiddled around with the great Yahoo! Pipes application.
I found a nice looking Pipe but it's lacking some input fields for the current position and the radius for the search. Maybe I'll clone this pipe and add these attributes as optional ones.
Enjoy playing around with this cool thingy.
van-tomas.de 2010 Relaunch
I've updated my website with a new layout and some new features.
Currently, some parts don't play well at Internet Explorer but it's rather difficult to test things on a Linux machine because of missing support for M$ products.
The other thing that changed is the language: for the future I'd like to prefer to post my articles in english. I hope to reach a broader audience.
In the following article you'll find a - pretty technical - overview about the updates that happened to this site.
