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Here is a small tip that can be useful for developers. Before you apply a patch, it is worth using --dry-run switch to see if it applies properly. However typing this switch all the time is not the best time spending. Fix it by...

Recently a problem was discovered with several web sites. I must say that the problem is not TYPO3-specific but will happen to any web site that uses <base> tag. We will solve it for TYPO3, of course.

The problem happens as follows. Some user agents seems to ignore the <base> tag and requests invalid URLs. For example, while viewing the page at http://domain.tld/hello/world/ such agents may seea reference to the image at typo3temp/pics/12345.gif . If user agents ignores...

There is a reason why I do not buy online a book even if it looks good for me. The reason is: there is no sample chapter.

People like samples. Everyone tried garlic at least once in his life and made his/her personal opinion about it. This was a sample. Everyone tried coffee or chocolate. These were samples too. They either stayed as samples (if person did not like it and never tied it again) or become an enjoyed product.

Sample chapter tells user if the book is really what I'd like to buy,...

I deicided to make small visual changes on this blog. First of all...

Recently I often see that TYPO3 plugins do not create links properly. It seems that authors simply do not know how to make links properly in TYPO3. As a result links are not RealURL-compatible or cache issues happen.

This article shows how to use typoLink in Frontend plugin.

To create a link from plugin you can either use one of pi_* functions available from tslib_pibase class or use tslib_cObj::typoLink function. The first is good if you need to keep and/or replace plugin variables. The...

Did you know that you can make your Mac working like a musical clip machine? No? Watch the video below. Just watch it! Full day of good mood guarantied!

Interview with the author.

Are you a good driver? If you answer yes, think if you can easily drive the cross shown on the attached image. It is located in Swindon, England and called Magic Roundabout. It has one large roundaboud and each entry is a smaller roundabout (total five of them). I would not bet that I can pass it easily. Especially with right-side driving. If you look into the description and photos of this place in Wikipedia, you will notice that large roundabout has two ways of circling in it: inner...

Amazon has a nice service called Amazon Prime. For $80 annual payment people can get faster deliveries and even free deliveries next day. So far, so good. But look to the attached picture at the bottom of this post. There are two color marking there.

The red one says I qualify for Amazon Prime. Sorry to disappoint you, Amazon, but I am not!I live outside UK, so I do not qualify for Amazon Prime. Don't tell me they do not know who I am. I just logged in to check status of my orders.

The...

Finally, I created SpamAssassin rules to filter out spam from Google mailservers. Itappears that all messages are sent by the same software. Possibly it uses Google vulnerability discovered some time ago (and not fixed till now as it seems). All messages have several identifying characteristics. I will not tell all that I found because it will be easy for spammers to "fix" their software. However one thing can be made public.

All these messages has a link to a web site hosted at...

Usually I get very little amount of spam. I have a very good anti-spam setup, which I will describe some time in future. Normally I do not get any spam at all. But recently Istarted to get 2-3 spam messages a day. Not a big deal but annoying. I usually check all such messages to see where they come from. And currently all of them have headers like:

Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so1193048fka.0     for <xxx@xxx.lv>; Sat, 17 May 2008 12:46:34 -0700...