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I just sent two extension updates to TER. They will appear soon. Login user track and comments were updated.

Login user track is a TYPO3 extension that records Frontend user activities. It records when user last logged in, how many pages he visited and what pages he visited. The extension was originally written by Kasper but was not updated for a long time. Netcreators needed additional functionality to this extension, so I took it, added...

Here is a new review of the Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think!" book.

I decided to change how URLs to artciles look like. Earlier it was like /post-details/archive/2008/may/10/whatever/. Segments 2 to 5 do not add any value to URL, they just lengthen it. So I got rid of them. Don't worry, all your bookmarks are still valid! I added mod_rewrite redirection for old addresses.

Here is what I did...

Yesterday some unintelligent worker cut the power cable of my provider's anthena (radio modem). As a result I lost internet connection for unlimited time. No one has idea when it will be fixed. Possibly the cable will be replaced completely. I think it is several kilometers in length to digg, also below major roads.

I am writing this message from a shopping center, which is 100km away from my house to announce that new articles on this web site will appear when I have Internet connection...

For a week I had nc_ttnews_mostread extension installed and read counter silently working on this web site. Now it is time to reveal it!

Today's RealURL release brings two new features.

The first one is support for config.absRefPrefix. Earlier versions did not take that setting into account and refused to create proper links. Now this works. RealURL will recognize the prefix and create URLs. However the prefix will not be applied back to URl automatically. You need to tell RealURL to do it. This happens because there are different cases when config.absRefPrefix is used and applying it blindly all the time would not be right....

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

Today another TYPO3 extension for comments family was released. It is IP blocking filter (extension key: comments_ipbl). It includes SpamHaus DROP ("Don't Route or Peer") list, can use DNSBL, and lets administrator block IP addresses either manually or by clicking on the link in notification e-mail.

This extension uses new hooks in Comments TYPO3 extension. I had to change some existing hook to make them more generic. So if anyone used comments_ic ("Comments: individual closing") together with...

TYPO3 Award 2008 contest was announced yesterday. I wonder will "comments" extension get an award as best extension since 2003? :)

This is a small maintenance release. Fixed bug #6849 (compatibility with MySQL < 4.1) and another incarnation of "postVarSet" bug.