During the last months I attended to excellent meetings. One was the TYPO3DD08 and the other was the "Dirty Handson Session" (Forelle ist geil!). During the last session we worked on HCI issues in Arnhem @ the Netcreators office together with Ben van 't Ende, Benjamin Mack, Jens Hoffmann, Patrick Broens, Steffen Kamper and me. We had a lot of fun and made a good start improving the backend step by step. . . .

I live on the command line quite a lot. Sometimes I wonder how the machine I am working on is holding up. A nice command to see what is going on is 'top'. Although it's quite resource hungry. A lighter alternative is 'uptime'. I don't like typing that command very often however. . . .

Some days ago I got fed up with running across odd configuration settings on our servers. We run several servers with a lot of TYPO3 installations. It would be really nice to be able to see the status of all installations at a glance. . . .

A couple of days ago I wrote a nice ruby script to check our server. The script reads all the vhost files, extracts the DocumentRoot's and searches the paths it finds. It checks if a TYPO3 installation is there and if so, does a sanity check on that installation. . . .

There's not a lot of useful stuff on here yet . . .

I want to put some time into converting and modding a nice theme first. Then I may try to post some useful articles on here. I would like to post some tutorials about (for example):

• how to build a preview tree structure using a data array
• how to write a 'clickmenu' backend extension

And maybe write about some other stuff that interests me like:

• Xen
• Gentoo