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Tools for Hacking your Everyday Digital Life

Author: benjaminOn: Mar 31Categories: Uncategorized

Ok, this collection is definitely tech-biased and when mentioning “digital life” it does not mean reading an ebook but getting in touch with the technology in the background. Disclaimer: There is no claim for completeness, independent assessment,...

JQuery Mobile: Change Color of SVG Icons

Author: benjaminOn: Feb 16Categories: jQuery Mobile, Mobile Development, Uncategorized, Web Development 1 Comment

Since version 1.4, JQuery Mobile provides an SVG-based icon set for high-quality scalable icons. Out-of-the-box, the icons are provided in two different color schemes: default (white) and alt-icon (black). To give your user interface an individual style,...

WordPress Antispam Bee – “Spam Reason: CSS Hack” on all comments

Author: benjaminOn: Jan 16Categories: Uncategorized

The wordpress Antispam Bee is one of the most popular WordPress plugins to prevent detect and prevent spam postet as blog comments. One of it’s detection strategies is to embbed a css-based hidden form field. While human users do not see and thus...

Backbone.js Version 1.0.0 to Version 1.1.0

Author: benjaminOn: Oct 20Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

The Backbone.js project has published a new minor release of its framework. View OptionsA minor change done is the options registration in Views.In version 1.0.0 one could create a view with some parameters such as the following example: new MyView({collection:...

Logging in Eclipse Plugins with JUnit Support

Author: benjaminOn: Aug 10Categories: Eclipse, Eclipse Plugin Development, Uncategorized No Comments

Logging can be used for a lot of different of use cases, ranging from debug messages during development upto application monitoring in production. In the past, log4j was set as a de facto standard, slf4j and the java internal java.util.logging have been...

Talks at WCOP 2012 and CompArch 2012

Author: benjaminOn: Jun 19Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

On monday the 25th, I will give a talk at the 17th international Workshop on Component Oriented Programming (WCOP) in Bertinoro, Italy. The talk is about respecting component architecture in the process of migrating customized product copies into a software...

Typo3: Image Magick “There was no result from the ImageMagick operation”

Author: benjaminOn: May 28Categories: Uncategorized 1 Comment

Since a couple of days I noticed that all Typo3 installations on 1und1 hosting packages did not succeed in processing images. Checking the image processing in the Typo3 installation tool the tests did not succeed but returning the error message “There...

Publication Network Visualisation by Microsoft Academic Research

Author: benjaminOn: Oct 25Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

A pretty cool online tool to browse academic publication networks and communities and to see relationships between individual researchers has been provided by Microsoft Academic Resrearch: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer#3616114...

Typo3 Copyright Note with Automatic Year Update

Author: benjaminOn: Aug 27Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

Most professional websites place a copyright note in the footer of all sites. Placing this in the html is like nothing. Updating this every year often becomes a mess and is forgotton by time or at least is not done when the new year starts. With Typo3,...

IE cut’s off Animated Gifs at the bottom

Author: benjaminOn: Mar 11Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

If the Internet Explorer has to display animated GIFs, it may happen that it cut’s off some pixels from the bottom of the image. To make the confusion even harder, it does not cut off pixels from all animiation frames but only from a some of them....