Fri, 26 Dec 2008 DAM 1.1.0 has been released

The DAM development team is proud to announce the release of version 1.1.0 of the DAM, the bugfix Release after "The Big Sleep".

Finally the new version is here due to the work of many people. We said 1.1 would be a christmas present and it is. Thanks Uschi for all your testing, suggestions, enthousiasm. Keep up the good work! Karma points all the way for you ;-) Thanks Stan for your communication with the DAM team and especially. . .

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 TYPO3 database backup without the heavy tables

There are times when you need to backup your database or even copy the complete database to another server. If you are unlucky, you cannot use the mysqldump tool to make a copy of the complete database at once because that would bring down the server completely. It would also be nice to be able to rsync over the data to another server (the staging server). Then having one huge dump file is also sub-optimal.

A solution is needed that is. . .

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 Switching the baseURL

A couple of weeks ago I thought the price of the mobile pipes and tubes had come down far enough to give them a try. So I went over to the local pipes and tubes distributor and shackled myself to a year-long agreement with them. I was totally happy the first train trip home, doing a video chat with Ben. All seemed to work quite. . .

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 TYPO3 housekeeping part 2

So here we are again. I hope you have gotten the hang of cleaning your TYPO3 installation and are reaping the benefits. If you are like me, you dont like to repeat yourself. All this typing on the command line, can't we automate this? The vacume cleaner in the image here cleans your rooms on its own. We would like TYPO3 to do that too. The problem is that we are not sure if. . .

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 TYPO3 housekeeping

When you run a TYPO3 installation for several months you tend to create and delete a lot of pages and a lot of page content. Relations between elements are created and severed. When pages and records are deleted in TYPO3, they are not really deleted from the database. The 'deleted' field in the table is merely set to 1. So over time your table will accumulate a lot of deleted records.

It can also happen that you remove a page that is pointed to. . .