I upgraded my server to a newer version of Linux in December. Today I suddenly noticed that I see "No image generated" yellow banner across all images in the TYPO3 backend.

Normal steps in such cases would be...

Two extensions were updated to ensure compatibility with TYPO3 4.3: pagepath and dd_googlesitemap. Thanks to sponsoring of updates!

There are also several bug fixes. One major of them is Google news sitemap format change. Previous version of dd_googlesitemap used obsolete format, which was not accepted by Google anymore. Also sitemap now works with shortcuts: the feature many people wanted so much.

Enjoy!

P.S. Did you know that you can send me a donation too?

One of the last YaST2-ncurses packages renders YaST2 online update and software management in SuSE Linux 11.2 unusable. Online update just exists back into the menu. If you want to fix it, follow these instructions:

I am not a Microsoft Windows user. I was quite indifferent to the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer scandal that causes break in to Google, Adobe and many other major companies (the “Aurora operation”). However posts and articles about this event pop up so often, that they are very hard to ignore.

Yesterday I read a phrase that made me think a lot about the way how we develop software. The source was not in English and it is hard to make a precise translation. The phrase sounds like this: “Software will be always vulnerable while it is...

Recently my FireFox automatically updated itself and disabled XDebug helper plugin, which I use to debug PHP scripts with Komodo IDE. While it is possible to start debugging by adding XDEBUG_START_DEBUG=1 to the URL, it is not very convenient when debugging such framed applications as TYPO3 Backend.

There is no update for this plugin. Even worse: it is disappeared from the list of FireFox plugins. Fortunately I have it locally and managed to cheat FireFox to recognize this plugin as valid.

It is quite simple. Firsts, you need to shutdown...

Some time ago Packt Publishing published a book about mod_security. Since I use mod_security very actively to protect servers, I decided to get this book and write a review.

Here it is.

If you, like me, prefer Komodo IDE for PHP development, you may have noticed that superglobals ($_GET, $_POST, etc) are absent from "Superglobals" tab in debug window. If you have this problem...