Increasingly I find myself having to add custom meta data in order to validate my ownership of a site.  Both Yahoo and Google offer webmaster tools with the option of either adding a static html page or including custom meta tags.
Although its easy enough to quickly upload an html file most of my sites would require explicit tweaks to the .htaccess file to allow the plain html to be served.  Without the exception being added the request is caught by the application and a 404 is thrown.

Adding a custom meta tag is therefore the path of least resistance and with a TYPO3 site running TemplaVoila you have two options: Read the rest of this entry »

Wanting to publish an RSS feed on a TYPO3 site recently I ran into errors relating to the php configuration of Dreamhost.  To solve this I followed the instruction for using your own modified version of php.ini on the wiki which essentially copies the latest Dreamhost version of php.cgi and php.ini into a newly created cgi-bin directory.

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I’d decided a while ago to invest some time learning Python, already had MAMP Pro happily running on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4 so it made sense to push further and have a look at Django - the Python Web Framework. I’m following the beautifully written Django Book and an amalgam of google results. Read the rest of this entry »

My Top sites (last 30 days)

1. en.wikipedia.org
2. www.typo3-jack.net
3. lists.otrs.org
4. lists.netfielders.de
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On a FullXML site running on some HELM shared hosting (Windows) I suddenly got this front-end error on all pages and no content:

msxml3.dll error '80004005'

A reference to variable or parameter 'gateway' cannot be resolved.

The variable or parameter may not be defined, or it may not be in scope.

/Engine/CFullXMLEngine.asp, line 819

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Windows 2000/XP/Tablet PC software used on Tabadley

• Dopewars

• Cssed
• Python
• Ghostscript
• GSView
• VideoLan
• OpenOffice
• Blender3D
• HydraIRC
• Jedit
• Gimpshop
• Scribus
• Putty
• Inkscape
• Thunderbird
• Firefox
• 7Zip
• PDFCreator
• Google Earth
• Google Sketchup
• Skype
• UltraVNC
• Flickr Uploader
• Picasa
• PDFTK Builder
• GNuPG
• Amaya
• AVG Anti Virus
• Opera
• pwWebSpeak

On my fresh new virtual machine from Bytemark I’ve installed apache, mysql and everything else needed to run TYPO3 4.02 - and it works! To allow me to delegate some admin procedures I’ve installed webmin and I’ve created some nifty links on my ubuntu desktop that allow me Nautilus access over ssh straight into the filesystem. For everyday admin and setup I find myself preferring the CLI (again over ssh) and I try to test everything beforehand on my “spare” office server.

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