15 ways to point out TYPO3 is your drug

Posted on 17/06/2010 by bigbabou

You mostly guess whether a page you surf on was made using TYPO3, and you always check, what year is stated in the header comment
You leave the “admin” account active on your systems, but remove all privileges and set the password to something like “hackme&bugoff!”
You have at least one system on which the sys_template´s uid went over 250
You have subscribed to more than 50% of the newsgroups on lists.typo3.org
Your conditional sentences have virtual squared brackets around it
You try to convince your customer to make use of even the table content element
You usually sleep tight on your TYPO3 pillow
Your vision is #69A550 and #FF8700
You categorically do not apply with a company that misspells TYPO3
You try to solve real world problems with TypoScript
You have or at least have had once an account password set to “joh316″
You wave aside the giggly idea of writing an own TYPO3-like cms from scratch
You clear all the cache, if you come to the conclusion your servers idle too much (not at peak times, of course)
You smile when it comes to stdWrap
You always have the extension kickstarter installed, just for the case

i´d like to you read your drug test cases – no blood, no hair, no police

nice TYPO3 extensions

Posted on 26/01/2010 by bigbabou

just wanted to post five neat extensions you can get freely from the TER i find worth to be mentioned since they really give me no headache but useful features:

stg_clearcache
allows you to clear cache of user-owned branches in one big installation, so it’s not only clear cache of this one special page and also not clear all page cache. useful if you run a large system or microsites.
kb_filequota
allows you to have a quota on filemounts, either by giving a size limit on the filemout itself or for each user. useful if you’d like to save space and suppress waste in the filemounts.
rscliem
allows you to automatize the extension updates on your system. i use it as nightly extension-cache update and it notifies me by mail, if extension should be updated for the very TYPO3. useful if you’d like to take steps in automatic administration.
realurlmanagement
allows you to view and manipulate a lot of stuff relating to RealUrl extension. simple alias and page-path editing. useful if the system works with RealUrl.
nc_staticfilecache
allows you to cache the pages from your system to server disk and serve them from there (waaay faster!) and so have the site up and running even if the your TYPO3 is ill. useful, if you have mostly static pages and mod_rewrite going.

even if some of them might be well known, i wanted to put a link to give the extension authors a big up! yeah great stuff, keep on going!

if you think this short list was helpful, just leave a comment. i would appreciate, if you send me your missing extension entry for here

UT3 for Linux?

Posted on 26/11/2009 by bigbabou

after upgrading my pc hardware and adjusting my system to ubuntu 9.10 i remembered the good programming style of ut2004 which runs unter linux like a charme. when i bought ut3 i didn’t like playing it as much as playing ut2004. the movement and the whole gameplay had changed… but i think there enough reviews of that game in the collective memory of the web. i still want to be able to play ut3 under linux. it seems nobody is interested in that linux client anymore. how can that be? where is that linux movement…

it seems that two years are enough to make all demands to bring a linux client for this game disappear to /dev/null and this is a shame. no client available, no news. i’m not going to play games under wine or so, can’t i demand a good software planning like it worked for ut2004?

Maybe, now as the unreal engine 3 has been opened, there could be a little chance that some geeky linux programmer team could adapt enough lines to produce a buggy alpha version but afaik the udev kit is also only for windows platforms. not so good, if you ask me. my knowledge about first person shooter development ended at designing multiplayer maps in the early days of being student (no evidence left hehe). but i still can try to understand how good those developers for ut2004 worked the system out. maybe you get my point, i really adore that game and it’s technique.

left to say: i’ll keep playing unreal tournament 2004 on linux, my in-game nickname is b1gbabou. i think, you can get the game for 10 € in every big electronics or games shop. unreal tournament 3 for linux is not provided on the purchaseable dvd and there’s also no steam client for linux.

if you have news on the ut3 on linux issue… feel free to drop a comment!

exponential function for human understanding

Posted on 07/07/2009 by bigbabou

friendly presenter Dr. Albert A. Bartlett presents Arithmetic, Population, and Energy to students. it was done in the past but it seems to be shaping all in the closer future (complementary to what they tell you on tv).

part I

part II

part III - and be sure to get this pattern! growth analogy to bacteria in a bottle

part IV

part V

part VI

part VII

part VIII

mind flashing.

interconnections

Posted on 23/06/2009 by bigbabou

since i understand open-source as “the” state of mind as the way to go, i’m very interested in what richard baraniuk told about open source education on ted. he is the founder of connexions, which i understand as an education material framework that contains purely creative commons licensed material.

so you’re allowed to “rip, mix and burn” the materials to your needs. this is the thing! open education. free information for all. cc even has a special deed for those open educational resources.

open access to information for everyone is a bit like what hans rosling asks for with his gapminder project that aims for removing old installed mindsets in our heads (i.e. developing and industrialized countries): (full) open access to the public funded information. it’s of course not so good for those who make much money with unbalanced information. with the numbers and with good produced and explained charts, all people can reduce the amount of intended (and unintended) misinformation and form a better educated society. mr. rosling keeps repeating the very positive words: the seemingly impossible is possible! we can have a good world!

going the global scope, there’s another page i recently found and that could be interconnected right here: worldchanging. good information compiled there. i heard about the earth whitness project from the founder of wc and i think it is a great idea.

and the last interconnection for today would be the ushahidi project, which is an open source reporting project that enables everyone to report. in times of unrealiable mass media reporting that could become a way to go. ushahidi is like the basic framework for a thing like the earth whitness project.

way to go. more to come. have a look at clay shirky´s talk about the impact that hits the “news” by twitter and co.

t3dd09

Posted on 16/05/2009 by bigbabou

just in time for the TYPO3 developer days 09 I kicked my X so badly that there was no other option to reinstall the system, so I could have a graphical user interface. But after having installed Zenwalk again, the thing “flows”. Now the talk for programming secure extensions is going to start – I’m excited to learn stuff. More to come, as long the wifi keeps working.

Remember that they only set up one grill for all of us? Lucky me coud grab the pieces very fast, but see the grill ready queue adding up @ T3DD09:

Update: my notebook´s hdd crashed at the T3DD so, bah! Tough: All data, all music… simply flushed away.

The event was still very exciting, and i´m very looking forward to attend another TYPOrhythm party.

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