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Read yesterday that this book hit an absolute record on Amazon pre-orders: over 1.6 million copies pre-ordered! They even starting to send packages on 17th to deliver them on 21st, when it is officially releases. Can't wait for my own copy (orderd from German Amazon).

I have a project that uses Smarty (PHP template engine). I need to continue with this project, so I downloaded Smarty help file in CHM format to check some configuration options. To my surprise it showed a error message: This program cannot display this page". I am pretty sure that file is ok.

I went to the Internet, searching. after 5 minutes I found it. Microsoft tightened security so much that it affected CHM files. If CHM file is downloaded as is (not archived or as a part of another...

Just found an excellent article by David Lanier. He writes that careful planning gives much better results in projects but this is normally underestimated by clients. I found the same: normally clients are willing to pay only for something, they can see. While this also has clear resons (no one wants to pay for nothing!), many clients do not realize that planning and thinking over project goals and implementation ways, may actually lower total project price a lot!

There is a law in...

Complete silence for several more days (weeks?). Why? Repair works at home, working for customer with TYPO3. Profiling TYPO3. Nothing to really write about.

While working on a project, I had to search for Latvian Ispell dictionaries. There were none found but there are Aspell (successor of Ispell) and MySpell (OpenOffice format) dictionaries. Formats of Ispell and MySpell is very different and some sources suggest that it will be hard to convert. However I was lucky to find that tsearch2 team made an utility to greatly simplify this conversion. Using it, I was able to get Ispell dictionaries in a minute. Utility is a Makefile, which requires make,...

T3DD07 are finished... I planned to write report for each day but did not manage it :) But I spent wonderful time talking to people, answering questions, resolving issues (like IRRE+workspaces fix) and so on. I had a nice room in the hotel. Weather were great. People were great. Everything was great. I feel myself refreshed and happy.

Thanks to all those who participated and especially to those, who made this event possible (Mario, Juergen, Michael and others). I am looking forward for the...

Why day 0? BEcause programmers start counting from 0 and think that one kilometer contains 1024 meters :) Last is joke of course.

So, T3DD07 has started. Kasper made amazing speech and I really hope it will be published on the T3DD07 web site. It just must be seens, so good it was!

I got also DVDs from latest TY3CON. Now I am going someone from whom I can get nice TYPO3 lanyards.

Sebastian is starting TYPO3 5.0 presentation now and I am runnig there...

To be continued! :)

TYPO3 developer days start on 26th of April. One day before TYPO3 core team discusses various core-related issues.

Last year I could not get to core team meeting due to a error in my Swiss visa. This year visa was perfecly fine, so I took AirBaltic flight from Riga to Copenhagen airport to transfer to SAS flight to Zurich. All went fine until I came to Copenhagen. It was 8:00.

There I found that all SAS flights are cancelled due to strike. Mine too.

Unlike others I cannot go outside transit...

HTMLArea is not working on some sites after upgrading to 4.1. I followed instructions from corresponding bug report but without success. It works on some sites and does not work on others. All sites share the same core package though symbolic links but behave differently.

For example, HTMLArea does not work for this site. I installed TinyRTE instead. Actually, it is better than HTMLArea, so I am not really complaining...

Yesteday I lost 1.5 hours trying to install PHP 5.1.6 as Apache2 module on Windows. MySQL and MCrypt did not want to work. I even copied related DLLs to ext/ folder but all was useless.

Without believing to success I copied libmysql and libmcrypt DLLs to windows\system32 and... it worked! By definition it should work if all dependent DLLs are in the same directory but it did not for unknown reason.

Anyway, it works now and I am posting it here for those who can encounter the same problem.