There’s no more standalone_style.css in the most recent version of Gallery v1, as the names of the CSS stylesheets were changed, unnecessarily breaking existing systems in productive use. A good example of bad release engineering (note that Gallery v1 is supposed to be a stable version).
SugarCRM – an open source CRM suite
I’ve just installed it on this server. The installation procedure is very admin-friendly: 1.) Create a db 2.) Create a db user 3.) Point the browser to the SugarCRM directory. And it’s amazing how many features SugarCRM offers – probably enough for most SMEs.
Cool XML, XSLT, XPath, DTD, namespaces tutorials
ZVON.org hosts some very useful XML-related tutorials, among others:
XML Tutorial
Namespaces Tutorial
DTD Tutorial
XSLT Tutorial
XPath Tutorial
These are great tutorials if you like as-concise-as-possible, example-driven learning approaches (rather than reading dry and highly formal specifications) and need to quickly refresh your know-how about XML-related standards.
September 14, StartupDay – Tag des Jungunternehmens
START Up Day – Tag des Jungunternehmens
I probably won’t be able to attend the START up day festivities in Zurich that early in the evening. Nonetheless it’s cool and important that there is a day such as the StartUp day :)
Kami.ch, a nice t-shirt printing service in the Greater Zurich area
For the past X’05 Swiss marketing expo, I wanted to print some guerilla marketing promo t-shirts for us. First, I tried McShirt.ch in the Niederdorf in Zurich. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to import my professional-grade vector graphics file (in Adobe Illustrator format) into their plotting application. I had my TabletPC with me and even simplified my design and converted it to other well-known and standardized file formats (PDF, PostScript, SVG) in order to make it easier for them (Note that I spent more than an hour in their shop waiting for them to succeed). However, they just didn’t manage it – and that’s what I call an unprofessional service, despite of kind personnel. A bummer.
So I looked for an alternative – and surprisingly I found an excellent one! :) The very recommendable t-shirt printing company is named Kami Textildruck and is located a bit outside of Zurich, in Wallisellen. They were very professional right from the beginning, with kind and correct information given on the phone and by e-mail. They had no problem at all with my graphics file and they produced our custom t-shirts within only 1.5 days (half of the time it would have taken at McShirt) for just a slightly higher price. Further, Kami uses professional printing technology which results in a much better and more durable print than that of McShirt.
Hence my predicate for Kami: highly recommended! Thanks, Kami team!
Essential Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird Extensions (Part II)
Here’s the second, completed part of my list about Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird extensions and hints I find very useful for my daily work (and yours too, possibly ;):
Essential Mozilla Firefox extensions
Web Developer
ScrapBook
Flat Bookmark Editing
savegenpage
DictionarySearch
Duplicate Tab
Bookmarks Synchronizer
miniT (drag+indicator)
Copy Plain Text
undoclosetab (undoclosetab.xpi for FF 1.0.6)
Chinese-English-Japanese Character Hint Bar
Digger
Other hints for Mozilla Firefox:
- Click with the middle mouse button to open a link on a new tab
- Click with the middle mouse button on a tab to close it
- Hit CTRL-p to print a page which is loaded in a new window without any menu or toolbar displayed
- How to make Firefox silently display error pages (like in IE) instead of the error dialog boxes: Enter “about:config” in the URL field and change “browser.xul.error_pages.enabled” from “false” to “true” (just click on the entry to switch it)
Essential Mozilla Thunderbird extensions
Enigmail
MinimizeToTray
Virtual Identity
Quote Colors
MessageFaces
Other hints for Mozilla Thunderbird:
First Draft of RSS 3 Lite published
The first draft of RSS 3 Lite has been published:
First draft of RSS 3 Lite
heise online – Erster Entwurf für RSS 3
Essential Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird Extensions (Part I): ScrapBook
A useful Firefox extension for people who would like to share cached “bookmarks” between several workstations:
ScrapBook – Firefox Extension
ScrapBook @ Mozilla Update
BTW I had a similar idea for a long time. My architecture would be more flexible though, allowing any client (not only Firefox), not require any client-side configuration and provide even more useful features. I intend to implement it as soon as time permits as I really miss such a power app. In the meantime, ScrapBook serves as an interim solution.
New SSL/TLS certificates for numlock.ch
There are new SSL/TLs certificates for numlock.ch, valid through July 23, 2015:
Please delete the old certificates and import the new ones. Thank you.
For those who are interested in how to create TLS/SSL certificates for Gentoo, take a look at the Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide. In order to extend the validity of the certificates to 10 years, you need to edit a couple of files:
in /usr/sbin/mkimapdcert, replace
/usr/bin/openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes \
with
/usr/bin/openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -nodes \
in /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf, set
default_days = 3650 # how long to certify for
(note that strangely, the default settings in /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf override the custom settings in /etc/ssl/misc/CA.pl)
Toshiba Portégé M200 and Windows XP TabletPC Edition 2005 context menu lag solved!
By chance I seem to have finally “solved” the annoying context menu lag on my TabletPC! :)
How was it done? I just installed the “Matroska Pack Full v1.1.1” (which contains many common audio and video codecs) and enabled its context menu extension. The most obvious (but not necessarily true) explanation is that installing Matroska’s context menu extension somehow fixed the context menu bug which was presumably introduced by upgrading my TabletPC to Windows XP SP2.
Now I’m really happy that my productivity is not restrained by this bug anymore :)