1001 untold stories

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How to file a bug report

Since I waste lot of time on interpreting bug reports, I'd like to give a little guidance on how to file it correctly. I would claim that I spend at least 10% of my time on guessing and asking the reporter what the bug

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PNG Image Optimisation

I did some research at work for PNG image optimization, to find out what are the best tools to compress PNG RGBA to paletted png with alpha channel, that would also fit into a good workflow. In previous projects it was common to compress

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Workaround for Zend_Dojo_Form when you render elements individually and dijit.byId() returns 'undefined'

Problem: When you render the form as a whole (i.e: <?php echo $this->form ?>), everything works fine, but when you render each element separate, the zendDijit {"id":"yourFormId","params":{"dojoType":"dijit.

music

mismatched (minimal / tech-house)

did it last week - hope you like it.

motd

lemonade allegory

What lemonade can teach us: A value is defined by how much personal importance we attach. Attributeless things are worthless. Found it via twitter and worth a read.

digital life

e-mu 0404 usb control panel won't display on windows 7 and the default 48KHz issue.

Since a few months I had the very strange issue that the default samplerate is 48KHz which caused me to set it manualy each time I wanted to play "normal" encoded audio. When I upgraded to windows 7 the control panel stopped

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The one and only correct way to use sprites.

In this post I'll show you the one and only correct way to use sprites and the very little benefit if you use sprites the wrong way. It's in everyones mouth but a lot of people do not understand fully what sprites are supposed

personal

life moves pretty fast

Every once in a while I write something really personal - and today is such day. As I've posted earlier on my flicker account, my step dead died a lonesome death. A few weeks have passed and all I can say is that time

digital life

if your svn is obstructed

try to run a cleanup and remove all obstructed files from your local copy. Or better said: copy them to a save place! Now remove all .svn dirs from your copy and run an update on your local project and copy back the »obstructed«

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Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

if you install apache/php and get the following error: Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 Then consider to check the permissions. What user/group has the apache? ps -ef | grep apache Who owns the files in

digital life

no fun with server

At work we've ordered a new server and I've installed and configured apache, mysql, php5 and lighty + some tools, when spontaneously 'less' died and also 'vim' broke. Then mysql didn't start, because 'There's not enough space in /var/lib/mysql/' and the eth0

media

The golden age of rap

Classics at: http://songza.com/blog/the-golden-age-of-rap/ ... and even today: awesome!

digital life

got new server

bigger, better, faster. (AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Dual Core / 4 GB DDR2 / 2 x 400 GB SATA II / Debian) Well ok - bigger, and better than the current one ;)

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Dresden day one and a half

We woke up at 7am and I was tiered as fuck, because it was after 1am when we finaly went to bed. I kinda hate it when I go on a trip - the preperation sucks but luckily we've managed everything in time, at

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testing the cronscript

should work aswell...

somewhere

this is just a test - posting via my mobile phone...

And it should work. I'm pretty sure it does! ;) -- Sent from my mobile device

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tech-stuff-bla-bla-and-then-some

I've installed today a new svn, trac and a websvn at work on a ubuntu machine with plesk on it. Actually it's really easy but there seems to be no instant-setup guide, so I had to google quite extensive. Well I haven't configuered it

Politik und Geschichte

gruene.de finally online

Three weeks of hard work are over and we're done. http://gruene.de is online since 9am today and the feedback seems overall to be positive though of what I've heard and read: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gruene.de http://meedia.de/

css

beware of font's you don't have installed

Everybody is talking about CSS fontstacks and there are plenty of good lists/combinations out there but do not use them carelessly - like the prototype.js guys did (@see screenshot). DO NOT use «Helvetica Neue» for your bodycopy or fontsizes smaller than 18px!

code

work around for zend validate's markAsError respectively addError

Yesterday I ran into a problem with zend form and zend validate which was quite confusing. I wanted to check if a multiCheckbox has less or equal 2 selections. I really thought there would be some "shipped" validator but there isn't. Then

personal

something else

Since the world of a bits and bytes consumes a lot of time, I've bought some new books, to clear my mind from code and graphics. The first one I'd like to introduce is by G. Edward Griffin and entitled "The Creature From

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Saturday things

I'm currently trying to get some multi step/wirzard forms in Zend done and it seems to work as far as I can tell. I've used this little class as inspiration and it works so far. I really like multi step forms as user

digital life

family affairs declassified

A few days ago I got a private message via meinvz.net and a girl, possibly with japanese ancestory asked me a few thing that only a very few people could possibly know about and if we could meet soon. That sounded strange and

digital life

new usb stick

I needed a little backup devide and bought this one: I've got the 32gig model for 60 Euro - which is quite ok. The speed is ok - not that super fast but storrage space is more important for me than speed (atm). update

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flickr.groups.pools.getPhotos and php_serial

If you try to get a serialized array (php_serial) from the flicker api from a group (flickr.groups.pools.getPhotos), you may find your self a little bit lost, because you do not get the photos you want, only the amount of how