I heard an excitement about a Hackintosh project a couple of times last month. Hackintosh makes Mac OS X available for computers designed by vendors other than Apple.

I do not want to discuss legal or moral issues here. I think Apple has all rights to limit its software to its hardware. They are the owners, they have all rights to define license terms.

What remains mystery to me is why so many people are excited about using those other computers and notebooks to run Mac OS X?

Mac is not only Mac OS X, it is also hardware. Since I bought a...

Below are slides from my talks at developer days. These are not a typical presentations with a lot of words on slides. In future I will also publish PDFs with texts explaning every slide.

Writing secure code

How to become a better programmer

Did you ever happen to furiously mute the sound of your computer because of a web site making it?

It is near 9 a.m. in the morning. My wife worked late yesterday and she is still sleeping. I am reading my mails before I jump to work. The owner of the blogs that I read regularly contacted me privately and asked to subscribe to his newsletter. The blog is great and the value of the newsletter is great. So I subscribed.

The subscriptions happens through a 3rd party web site. It seems that this web site wants to be "accessible"....

Page browser is a complex piece of code. It is often tricky to have it done. An example from the iStockPhoto below shows that clearly...

If you own an Apply Mighty Mouse (excellent mouse, by the way!), you can ran into the famous problem: mouse stops scrolling into one or more directions. I was able to fix it for some time by following Apple's advise to scroll the mouse on the paper (up side down). This helped for a while but today the mouse stopped worked completely.

If this happens to you, it is really easy to disassemble and clean the mouse. The only important missing detail in the linked video is about cables. If attach a green cable the wrong way, the mouse will still...

"TYPO3 developer days" event, 2009 edition starts next week on Thursday. I will make two talks there:

– How to become a better programmer (Thursday, 15:15—16:15)

– Writing secure code (Saturday, 16:30—17:30)

The first talk is...

TYPO3 SEO becomes a hot topic. I covered several TYPO3 SEO topics on this blog. This time I want to share a link to Google's SEO paper that I accidentally found while checking a Google Webmaster central for the customer.

In this document Google shares tips about optimizing your pages. These are official recommendations. It means that are not only safe to use but also highly recommended for every web site. As a side note: I was happy to find that I use almost everything from this paper on this site.

The paper is very useful for anybody...