At the moment my favorite tool for custom tailored web sites is ProcessWire. If you never heard about it before, it is a very clever piece of PHP-based Content Management System/Framework with a very powerful but intuitive API which plays very nicely along with other applications. I have build (or was involved in) projects based…
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WebrockerDon’t tell me what my browser can’t do! – Christian Heilmann
This article by Christian Heilmann (of Mozilla and Microsoft fame) about the misconception that expecting certain features and capabilities in browsers and simply stating "please upgrade/turn on/go away" if these "requirements" are not met by the user's set up is web development is very much worth your time if you create things for the web.…
The Website Obesity Crisis - Maciej Ceglowski @ Webdirections
Everybody involved in creating web experiences needs to listen to / watch this keynote. Thursday Keynote Maciej Ceglowski - The Website Obesity Crisis from Web Directions on Vimeo.
The ethics of modern web ad blocking
All of that tracking and data collection is done without your knowledge, and — critically — without your consent. Because of how the web and web browsers work, the involuntary data collection starts if you simply follow a link. There’s no opportunity for disclosure, negotiation, or reconsideration. By following any link, you unwittingly opt into…
TYPO3 6.2 content image in Typoscript
Here are a few lines of TypoScript code that really took me a long time to get to. In TYPO3 4.x, I would fetch an image which is inserted on a certain page as a normal content element (CE) and use it for example as an site wide header image. In this example, the image…
TYPO3 sys_category bug after upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2
After a recent update from TYPO3 6.1 to 6.2 on a site that makes use of the new sys_category function, I noticed a strange behaviour: Even though categories were shown in the front end and, if viewed with the list tool in the backend, also showed as defined, they were not selected on their according…
Notes from the trench: Updating a TYPO3 4.5 installation to version 6.2
What is this about? Currently I'm in the process of updating a fairly simple website from the now outdated "Long Time Version" 4.5 to it's successor, 6.2. Since I consider myself as not-the-top-notch-but-not-so-dumb kind of TYPO3 maintainer, and I ran in some issues that surprised me (and I didn't find answers right away), maybe someone…
Warrior not worrier
I'd so like to have this as a stand for my Wacom Intuos pen, even better if the toy soldier figure was actually a civilian, nerd-type run-of-the-mill illustrator-kind-of-person. Hey 3D printers of the world, can we make that happen? Title inspired by a James Victore sticker; image/montage by me
Add post format X to posts with category Y
Recently I decided to use the WordPress post formats in my blog. If you're not familiar with post formats, hop over to the wordpress codex and read about them there. Back? Good. :-) I now have the ability to use different layouts for different kinds of posts, like "video", "image" or "status" - there are…
Fiddling with the Indie Web, pt4
Wow, Steward Langridge, inventor of the pingback mechanism, has enabled webmentions on his blog, as he tweeted just a couple of hours ago. I think this is great signal for the webmention idea, and reminds me to keep on tweaking the webmention/indie web thing here in my blog, where I have the comfort of using…
3D Cube in CSS
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets - has come a long way from being the "paint" on HTMLs structure. In the relativly short span of one afternoon I was able to create a threedimensional cube, that, with a little help of some JavaScript glued onto some input fields, can be rotated along its X-, Y-, and…