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Today, Typo3 Version 4.3.0 has been released.

New inside is Extbase, the backport of the MVC-concept of Flow3. Now it's time to play with it and be ready for Typo3v5 (Typo3 Version 5).

Of course, my sites bigga.de and dresden-west.de already running with 4.3.0.

Recently I added the RSS widget of t3blog to my blog. Now you may subscribe to this RSS feed (see on the left or on top in in your browser).

Because the configuration was a little tricky (as usual) I want share my template Typoscript setup settings with you:

plugin.tx_t3blog_pi2 {

  rss {

    generator=T3Blog

    feedTitle= Linux Typo3 and other Pains

    feedCopyright= Alexander Bigga

    feedManagingEditor= Alexander Bigga

    feedWebMaster= Alexander Bigga

    feedLink= "http://linux.bigga.de/blog/"

    feedDescription= [ daily hacking ]

    feedImage = "http://linux.bigga.de/typo3conf/ext/t3blog/icons/rss.png"

    postItemCount=5

    list.5 >

    list.10 >

    list.20 >

    list.40 >

  } 

}

 

xmlnews = PAGE

xmlnews {

  typeNum = 100

  config {

    disableAllHeaderCode = 1

    additionalHeaders = Content-type:text/xml

    linkVars = L

    no_cache = 1

         xhtml_cleaning = 0

         admPanel = 0

  }

  10 = USER

  10 {

    # Call the user function

    userFunc = tx_t3blog_pi1->main

    widget.rss < plugin.tx_t3blog_pi2.rss

    template = TEXT

    template.field = rss

  }

} 

page.headerData.500 = TEXT

page.headerData.500.value = <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" \

      title="RSS-Feed" href="http://linux.bigga.de/blog/rssType/2.0/rssContent/Posts/rss.xml" /> 

Last week, I read the september issue of the Linuxjournal about the Google Chromium development and I was happy to find a development linux version online.

With this version installed in debian stable and testing, it is now possible to write fluently text into the Typo3 htmlarea RTE!

Even with the speeded up version 3.5 of Firefox this was awful on slow computers like my VIA Epia EN1200 or even on the J8F9 Jetway board.

So I am very impressed about the Javascript speed of Google Crome (current version is 4.0.249) and I will use it at least in the Typo3 backend.

The development tools are not that impressive. So stay with the perfect Firefox + Firebug combination.

Quite often you have the requirement to list events, news, references or whatever in a cronological order on your webpage. The tt_news extension of Typo3 is capable to do a lot of things. Though it is quite complex to configure it to your needs.

One missing feature is a calendar view of the upcoming events. With newscalendar you can do this.

As of version 1.10 newscalendar uses the jQuery tools from flowplayer.org. In my (news-) template I configured my own css for calendar and context menu and I modified the default images of the tooltip background (live demo on doris.bigga.de/vortraege/):

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.calendar.startWeekDay = 1
plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.cssContextMenu = fileadmin/templates/doris/css/cssContextMenu.css
plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.cssCalendar = fileadmin/templates/doris/css/cssCalendar.css
plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.jsJQueryTooltip = fileadmin/templates/doris/js/jquery.tools.min.js

In the last statement I include my own version of the jquery tools. I just changed the statement "relative:false" into "relative:true". Otherwise the tooltip isn't shown above the date but somewhere because the javascript misscalculates the position.

I added a bugreport to the typo3 forge bugtracker: http://forge.typo3.org/issues/show/5313

UPDATE (2009-11-26):

There seems to be a lot of development in progress. Today version 2.1.1 is online and my bug is fixed because the jQuerytooltip has been dropped. So I disabled the two lines in the template again:

# plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.cssContextMenu = fileadmin/templates/doris/css/cssContextMenu.css

# plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.file.jsJQueryTooltip = fileadmin/templates/doris/js/jquery.tools.min.js

Now I can modify the default scheme by (e.g.):

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.tip.backgroundColor=#E3EECB

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.tip.borderWidth=2

plugin.tx_newscalendar_pi1.tip.positions='top'

UPDATE (2010-02-03):

Today version 2.1.4 is online. Fixing errors which has already been fixed and got lost in 2.1.2. Confusing.

I'm working from time to time with my three year old Samsung Q35 laptop with Debian stable installed all the time. So at the moment, it's running Lenny.

Usually, I'm too excited about new kernel features and bugfixes and don't wait for the next debian release but compile the kernel myself. That's what I'm used to do for plenty of years now.

My system is running now with current 2.6.31.5 kernel and uses the iwl3945 driver for wifi. But one point was always annoying to me: The wifi device was called "wlan0_rename" and sometimes it started with "eth2"! And that's the p oint: when it started with eth2, I had to reconfigure /etc/network/interfaces (stupid) or reboot and hope for wlan0_rename (stupid as well).

Today, I started to google the solution which is quite simple thanks to two threads/bugreports:

In the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, I changed the following lines:

# PCI device 0x8086:0x4222 (ipw3945)
#SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:18:de:87:f3:b9", NAME="eth2"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:18:de:87:f3:b9", ATTR{type}=="1", \
KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"

And wow! It starts _always_ with wlan0.

Thanks to the original poster and to this bugreport.