Kategorie: General

Mac installer for TYPO3 3.6.1 ready for download! Get the updated package here.

Thanks to Kasper, TYPO3 3.6.0 final has been released today. The latest versions of the packages for TYPO3 have been uploaded to http://typo3.org/download/packages/.

I will update my Mac Quickstart installer soon.

This summer term I give a seminar about »Content Management with TYPO3«. During the last winter term Richard and I did it integrated in our PHP / MySQL seminar but TYPO3 is too complex for that short time and therefore better to be handled in a stand alone seminar.

On tuesday, March 9th 2004 Richard and I will give a short presentation about the KISD Intranet at the »Multimedia-Tag« at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne. I did something similar with Marian two years ago in Düsseldorf at the MKI. The presentation as PDF-file.

As I wrote before we are currently doing some research on the web to build KISD’s Digital Archive. Today I was searching for information about SOAP when I encountered this »funny« spelling bug in Google.

Today I had some really strange problems with my Mac running Panther. Suddenly (after a crash) some apps won’t start up. First of all Proteus, followd by Stickes. Later on I could not use System Preference Panes like Accounts and so on. Because my machine normally has a long uptime, I couldn’t exactly remember what I changed since the last reboot. So I tried other accounts and so on. I was at the point to reinstall everything when I decided to ask my good old friend Google. And yes, there was a helpful link in the search results.
Prior to my system crash I used FontBook (the first time) to activate ITC Officina – and that’s the culprit. After I deactivated this font, I could start all apps and use all panels. Very strange.
It seems to me as if Apple should improve the search engine. A search on the Apple Support Site using the same keywords only revealed unrelevant docs. And of course, I will not use FontBook until this is fixed.

When Oliver recently posted that he has too much work to blogg, I noticed that I also had not posted for more than a month. The same for me, I’m right too busy to post.
Currently we (Marian and me) are working on KISD’s digital archive. We did a lot of research and built some PowerPoint wire frames and made the database model and so on but even after that we have enough to do.
Last week we found out that there’s a project at KISD that has a similar approach. We joined a meeting of the group and realized that they left their original project approach, from the movie and multimedia archive to a general form of archive. Too bad they didn’t ask us earlier… There could have been much more input from our side. You can come to KISD next friday and visit their public presentation of the results.

Since I switched to Mozilla Firebird, because I hate Safari’s cookie management, I tried some of these browser extensions. My current favorite is Chris Pederick’s »Web Developer Extension« (available for Mozilla and Firebird). Really helpul if you want to investigate other websites (and your own work of course) in a technical way.

If you ever thought about privacy, for exampe in the net, at work or when you’re shopping, read about the German BigBrotherAward winners in 2003. You already knew it’s true. Visit http://www.bigbrotherawards.de/.