Here is an example XML:

Injustice stirs up wrath in a just person – otherwise its justice is corrupted. The anger is subsided by serving up justice. A just person can rest in peace if it knows that justice is about to come or has already been brought.

It seams, that double-encoded UTF-8 texts are a fairly common problem when dealing with MySQL. This may be due to the fact that the default character set of the connection to the server is Latin-1, but that is not relevant once the data is already corrupt.

Here is how to fix it – export the database using latin1 charset an re-import with utf-8:

mysqldump -h DB_HOST -u DB_USER -pDB_PASSWORD –opt –quote-names –skip-set-charset –default-character-set=latin1 DB_NAME > dump.sql

mysql -h DB_HOST -u DB_USER -p DB_PASSWORD –default-character-set=utf8 DB_NAME < dump.sql

Of course, you should first replace DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD and DB_NAME with values, corresponding to your personal setup.

source: Fixing double-encoded UTF-8 data in MySQL

Ob man TRIM Support hat, sieht man wenn man mit gedrückter “alt” Taste auf den Apfel im Menu klickt und “System Information…” wählt. Unter Serial-ATA findet sich irgendwo der Entrag “TRIM Support:” – und der steht wahrscheinlich auf “No”.

Mit folgenden Terminal-Tricks, kann man TRIM aktivieren und so seiner SSD Festplatte eine hoffentlich längere Lebensdauer abgewinnen.

Zuerst sichern wir eine Kopie der angepassten Datei:

sudo cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage /IOAHCIBlockStorage.original

Danach aktivieren wir den TRIM support:

sudo perl -pi -e ‘s|(\x52\x6F\x74\x61\x74\x69\x6F\x6E\x61\x6C\x00).{9}(\x00\x51)|$1\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00$2|sg’ /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage

Nun verwerfen wir die alten Einstellungen:

sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel

sudo kextcache -system-caches

Nach einem Neustart sollte TRIM für die Festplatte aktiviert sein:

Weitere optimierungen

Da wir ja keine herkömmliche Festplatte mehr haben, können wir noch einige Überbleibsel aus dieser Zeit optimieren. Der Stromsparmodus, bei dem herkömmliche Festplatten im Standby zu drehen aufgehört haben, macht bei SSDs keinen Sinn und kann deaktiviert werden:

Jedes mal, wenn auf eine Datei zugegriffen wird, wird der Zeitpunkt des Zugriffs gespeichert. Um diese unnötigen Schreibvorgänge zu verhindern kann eine Datei “/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.noatime.root.plist” mit folgendem Inhalt angelegt werden:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.noatime.root</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>mount</string>
            <string>-uwo</string>
            <string>noatime</string>
            <string>/</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
</plist>

Wenn der Mac zugeklappt wird, wird der Inhalt des RAM auf die Festplatte geschrieben. Die RAM sind jedoch weiter unter Strom. Die Festplatte wird nur für den Fall eines Stromausfalls benötigt. Auf kosten von etwas Sicherheit, kann verhindert werden, dass der Inhalt auf die Festplatte geschrieben wird – als kleiner Zusatznutzen wird noch Fesplatenspeicher in der grösse des RAM frei:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

Wenn man den Standard wieder einstellen möchte, kann man den Wert 0 durch 3 ersetzen.

Die bestehende Sicherungsdatei kann gelöscht werden:

sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage

Rückbau

Sollte man TRIM wieder deaktivieren wollen, hilft dieser Befehl:

sudo perl -pi -e ‘s|(\x52\x6F\x74\x61\x74\x69\x6F\x6E\x61\x6C\x00).{9}(\x00\x51)|$1\x41\x50\x50\x4C\x45\x20\x53\x53\x44$2|sg’ /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage

Und wenn etwas ganz schief läuft, kann man auch die Original Datei zurückholen:

sudo cp /IOAHCIBlockStorage.original /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/MacOS/IOAHCIBlockStorage

Quellen: TRIM und Optimierungen

For a moment, I looked back, and when I turned – there she was. She had risen without me taking notice, clothed in her beautiful shining, red dress. She made no noise, no big announcement, she just appeared.

In this second, it struck me, what a wonder this is. The sun gave me a new chance. She didn’t remember the former days. She just gave me a new day, a new page in the book of my life, with no words written on it yet. I didn’t ask her to, she just did.

That’s what she always does, till this very day. While millions of people – me included – most of the time don’t even realize what a wonder and privilege this is. A new beginning, a new start, over and over and over again. Not looking back, just giving us a new canvas to paint life on.

We are occupied with our little problems and sorrows, this little itch here, that thing that didn’t turn out as we planed there, this person who was mean to us… In the meantime we let days pass without realizing, that grace is new every morning. That life itself is a wonder, day after day, and a chance to make things better. To change things, in our own life, in the life of our family and friends. To smile at life, like the sun smiles at us, morning after morning.

She has forgotten what she saw the other day on the face of the earth – decided to give it another try. I am willing to do the same. Forget what lies behind me, looking forward, making the best of the day that was given to me as a gift from god.

via Facebook and YouTube

For my installation I wanted to use the apache memcache extension.

Configure Typo3 to use memcached

Do enable the framework you need to set some values in the localconf-file. Take care – some values will change in Typo3 4.6. – especially there are more defaults so you don’t have to set all of this. The code below is for Typo3 4.5.X to be put into typo3conf/localconf.php:

// cachingframework-Memcached - START
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['useCachingFramework'] = '1';
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['caching']['cacheConfigurations']['cache_hash'] = array (
	'frontend' => 't3lib_cache_frontend_VariableFrontend',
	'backend' => 't3lib_cache_backend_FileBackend',
	'options' => array(
 	)
);
if($_SERVER['T3_USEMEMCACHE']){
	$mserver = $_SERVER['T3_MCACHESERVER'] ? $_SERVER['T3_MCACHESERVER'] : 'localhost:11211';
	$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['caching']['cacheConfigurations']['cache_pages'] = array (
		'frontend' => 't3lib_cache_frontend_VariableFrontend',
		'backend' => 't3lib_cache_backend_MemcachedBackend',
		'options' => array(
			'servers' => array($mserver),
		)
	);
	$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['caching']['cacheConfigurations']['cache_pagesection'] = array (
		'frontend' => 't3lib_cache_frontend_VariableFrontend',
		'backend' => 't3lib_cache_backend_MemcachedBackend',
		'options' => array(
			'servers' => array($mserver),
		)
	);
}
// cachingframework-Memcached - END

Take a look at line 9 – I use such settings to make configurations on server / environment level – you can then set this variables in the a .htaccess file or – as I use to do it – in the vHost config:

# Use memcache extension for caching
SetEnv T3_USEMEMCACHE 1

If you have inserted the code into your localconf.php file and hit the refresh-button, you’ll get this;

Now, MAMP Pro comes with the memcache extensions enabled – unfortunately it doesn’t work. (it’s 32Bit, not 64Bit…)

After digging around a bit I finally could make it run. This article of Leon Barrett was the key to success. I am using MAMP Pro Version 2.0 so a few paths are different. That’s why I decided to create this article so you don’t have to make the same mistakes as I did…

Install Xcode

First, you need to download the free Xcode from the App-Store. What you download is only the installer – install it after download! After installing Xcode, you are ready to compile memcache for MAMP. Most parts of the following steps are taken from Leon’s Website.

Step 1 – Make the MAMP php files executable

sudo chmod +xrw /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php*

Step 2 – Switch to the download directory

cd ~/Downloads/

Step 3 – Download the memcache source

curl http://pecl.php.net/get/memcache-2.2.5.tgz > memcache-2.2.5.tgz

Step 4 – Unpack the source and go into the folder

tar -zxvf memcache-2.2.5.tgz
cd memcache-2.2.5

Step 5 – PHPize the Memcache extension files

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/bin/phpize

Step 6 – Compile the Memcached extension

CFLAGS=’-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os’ LDFLAGS=’-O3 -arch i386 -arch x86_64′ CXXFLAGS=’-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os’ ./configure –disable-dependancy-tracking –disable-shared -enable-static

make

Step 7 – Copy the extension into MAMP

sudo cp modules/memcache.so /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/.

Step 8 – Add the extension to the php.ini file

To do this open the MAMP application, go to File > Edit Template > PHP > PHP 5.3.6 php.ini
Search for “; Extensions” and add the following line:

extension=memcache.so

Step 9 – Configure Memcache

Somewhere in this file, you need to configure Memcache. I used the configuration proposed by Dmitry Dulepov which works just fine for me:

memcached.allow_failover 1
memcached.chunk_size 32768
memcached.default_port 11211
memcached.hash_function fnv
memcached.hash_strategy consistent
memcached.max_failover_attempts 20

Save the file, stop MAMP and start it back up. Take a look inside your php log to see if there were any errors starting up.

Step 10 – Start Memcached

memcached -d -m 8 -M -p 11211

You can stop memcached with “killall memcached”

Enjoy

Hit the refresh-button on your website again – it shines in memcached glory!

Now, memcache needs to be started manually each time you start MAMP. The should be ways to automate this – but I couldn’t make it work…

Üses Bild vo Gott, hät sonen riise Iifluss uf üsi Beziehig mit Gott.

via Facebook and YouTube

Fix Spaces

Wer von euch vermisst Binden von Applications an einen Space? Ja, ich auch. Danke an Remo für den Tipp, Terrific!

Fix Scrolling

Geht gar nicht;

Und wennschon dennschon;

Fix Dashboard

Die Idee von Dashboard ist, dass man eine Fläche über dem Arbeitsplatz hat – Vorteil, mann kann was drunter abschreiben etc.; also, bitte zurück;

Fix Launchpad

Bin kein grosser Fan von Launchpad, aber wennschon wennschon – Was will ich mit den Adobe Uninstallern und all dem Zeugs? Und löschen geht auch nicht? Geht gar nicht. Daher folgendes im Terminal eingeben;

$ sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db ‘DELETE FROM apps;’ && killall Dock
$ sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db ‘DELETE from apps;’ \ ‘ DELETE from groups WHERE title<>“”; DELETE from items WHERE rowid>2;’ \ && killall Dock;

Danach die gewünschten Ions auf Lunchpad ziehen – voila. (Leere Ordner – Icon reinziehen und wieder rausnehmen > Popp)

Geheimtipp – Window Application…

…benutzen um zuletzt geöffnete Files (von teils) Apps per Tastatur zu öffnen

Weitere Tipps?

Bitte in den Comments ;)

Udpate: Besserer Launchpad Hack – Danke Denis.

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, “whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,” and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

John Adams

(Via John Gruber)

I was looking for a tutorial that explains how to create true m:n relational objects with Typo3 and Extbase and Fluid. Unfortunately I could not find something that explained how I could get this to work with the Extension Builder. I finally figured out a working solution. This post will be a short tutorial on how to accomplish “has many and is child of many” relations with the Extbase Extension Builder.

• First you need Extbase and Fluid installed – it comes bundled with Typo3 – I used Typo3 4.5.3 with Extbase and Fluid 1.3
• You also need to download and install the Extension Builder –  unfortunately it’s not in the TER at the moment

This tutorial will show you, how to create an extension with an object “category” which can have subcategories of the same type. You can create Categories and Subcategories. You can also assign multiple parent categories to subcategories and so forth. The relation will be visible on both ends.

First, you need to create a new extension. Switch to the Extension Builder and enter some details for your extension. In my case I create a new extension nbomn :

Hit “save” after you have created the basics.

Now we are going to create a new Model “Category”. It is of the type “Entity” which is an object that has a unique identity. Much like a car – compared to a value object which would be more like a color that only has a meaning when applied to a subject (car) but can’t stand for it’s own. It’s also an aggregate root – this means the extension builder will generate a repository and default controller actions for this model so we can easily fetch and save objects – this has nothing to do with the m:n relation.

Now that we have created the Model, let us add some properties. First and most obvious, we need a name for the category – this is of the type “String”, and it’s also required. Second, we need a new field that acts as the counterpart for the m:n relations. The Extension Builder will not create this automatically. It is of the type “Integer” and not required (since not all categories have parents).

Last but very much not least, we create a relation of the object to itself. The name of the relations is “subcategory” and it is of the type “m:n” – since this is what it’s all about. Also, we don’t want it to be a “inline” relation – we could not select existing categories that way. Then, we connect the “dot” from the relation to the dot of the domain by dragging a line from the dot at the bottom to the dot at the top left.

You will end up with this (Properties folded):

Now you can save your extension. You have now a new folder named after your extension key in your extension folder typo3conf/ext/yourextkey. We now have to update two things:

1. The MySQL database scheme for our mm table
2. The TCA configuration for the Typo3 backend forms

Open the file “ext_tables.sql” and scroll down to your mm table. We will need to add three fields and change the KEY fields:

1. New field uid
2. New field pid
3. New field tablenames

We will also change the KEY definition and define the UID as the PRIMARY KEY and the pid as the parent KEY.

## Original fields:
# KEY uid_local (uid_local),
# KEY uid_foreign (uid_foreign)

## Changed fields for m:n
PRIMARY KEY (uid),
KEY parent (pid),

## New Fields for m:n
uid int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
pid int(11) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
tablenames varchar(255) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL

Now we change the subcategory TCA definition to allow for true m:n relations. Open the file “Category.php” at “Configuration/TCA” and find “MM” inside the “subcategory” configuration. We add two new definitions:

1. “MM_match_fields” that matches the “tablenames” field from the mm table. Don’t forget to adjust it to your correct field-names!
2. “MM_opposite_field” that links to our “category_mm”

'MM_match_fields' => array(
      'tablenames' => 'tx_nbomn_domain_model_category'
),
'MM_opposite_field' => 'category_mm',

You should also add a line inside the “add wizard” configuration to prevent adding new subcategories before the parent has been saved:

'notNewRecords' => 1,

That’s it for the subcategory configuration. It can now store relations to other categories. Now we need to setup the parent categories. We replace the whole “config” array of the “category_mm” field with the one of “subcategory”. Then we remove the “MM_opposite_field” entry:

That’s all. Now we have working Sub- and Parentcategories. You can now go to the Extension Manager and install your Extension. Then create a Sysfolder somewhere in your Pagetree and insert a new category.

After you save the category, you can create subcategories and also add new parent categories:

I hope, this helped you to create your own m:n relations with the Extbase Extension Builder. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment. In case you like to take a look at my test extension – download nbomn – it’s also on GitHub.

Ps. On my way to this solution this thread was useful.

“Straight up honesty, whatever the cost.”

www.themansguidetolove.com – Ditch, 35

A fantastic natural phenomenon is filling the skies over Sterte every night as around 100,000 starlings form a black cloud. This amazing sight over Poole as the light fades is attracting scores of bird watchers and photographers, all of whom are keen to capture the starling spectacle. Last winter there were around 20,000 to 30,000 birds wheeling around the sky but this year the flock has grown enormously as more and more birds join in.

“Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: He was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets, be they Elijah, Muhammad, Buddha, or Confucius. But actually Christ doesn’t allow you that. He doesn’t let you off that hook. Christ says, No. I’m not saying I’m a teacher, don’t call me teacher. I’m not saying I’m a prophet. I’m saying: ‘I’m the Messiah.’ I’m saying: ‘I am God incarnate.’ . . . So what you’re left with is either Christ was who He said He was—the Messiah—or a complete nut case. . . . The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nut case, for me that’s far fetched.”

Bono, via

htmlDecode View Helper

class Tx_YourExtensionKey_Format_HtmlDecodeViewHelper extends Tx_Fluid_Core_ViewHelper_AbstractViewHelper {
    /**
     * Decodes a given string to HTML
     *
     * @param string $string the string to be decoded
     * @param string $quote_style The optional second quote_style parameter lets you define what will be done with 'single' and "double" quotes. It takes on one of three constants with the default being ENT_COMPAT:
     * @param string $charset The URF-8 character set is used as default for the optional third charset. This defines the character set used in conversion.
     * @return string htmldecoded string
     * @author Noel Bossart
     */
    public function render($code = NULL, $quote_style = ENT_COMPAT, $charset = 'UTF-8') {
        if ($code === NULL) {
            $code = $this->renderChildren();
        }
        return html_entity_decode($code, $quote_style, $charset);
    }
}

htmlEncode View Helper:

class Tx_YourExtensionKey_ViewHelpers_Format_HtmlEncodeViewHelper extends Tx_Fluid_Core_ViewHelper_AbstractViewHelper {

    /**
     * HTML encodes a given string
     *
     * @param string $string the string to be encoded
     * @param string $quote_style The optional second quote_style parameter lets you define what will be done with 'single' and "double" quotes. It takes on one of three constants with the default being ENT_COMPAT:
     * @param string $charset The URF-8 character set is used as default for the optional third charset. This defines the character set used in conversion.
     * @return string HTML encoded string
     * @author Noel Bossart
     */
    public function render($code = NULL, $quote_style = ENT_COMPAT, $charset = 'UTF-8') {
        if ($code === NULL) {
            $code = $this->renderChildren();
        }
        return htmlspecialchars($code, $quote_style, $charset);
    }
}

You can download both view helpers and put the files into the following folder: EXT:/yourextension/Classes/ViewHelpers/Format/

Updated: Or you just use html_entity_decode() before you pass it to the view :)

A common request was to make it possible for podcast producers to link files hosted on a different server than typo3. With the newest release version 2.0.3 uploaded to the Typo3 TER today, I added this possibility together with some bug-fixes and small changes. The Manual has undergone a slight update with new Screenshots. Go ahead and download the extension and RTFM (Read The Famous Manual).