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How to use constants with conditions in typoscript

TYPO3 is a free and open source content management system as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web Application Development framework written in PHP. It is released under the GNU General Public License and it can run on Apache or IIS on top of Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS/2 or Mac OS X.

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Posted in: Web Development | February 7, 2010
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Run Internet Explorer on Linux

A problem that many web developers face when they switch from Microsoft Windows to an open source operating system (Ubuntu, Fedora, Archlinux, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, Debian, BSD etc.) is the imposibility of running tests on Internet Explorer, since IE is officially suported only on Windows.

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Posted in: Linux | February 2, 2010
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Importing contacts in PHPList

PHPList is another example of an open source powered software that has all the required features of a complete newsletter manager. Build and maintained by Tincan Ltd., PHPList has reached over 300.000 downloads so far and is the perfect solution for a dozen companies when it comes to personalised mailing list or customer relations management [...]

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Posted in: Web Development | January 27, 2010
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Create an image thumbnail for a WordPress article

During the last week, the Ropardo Web Development Team has been working on a web portal based on the open sourced content management system WordPress. I was given the task to create a new template for the new website which would eventually be populated with diverse information, ranging from static facts to fast changing local [...]

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Posted in: PHP | December 16, 2009
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Google Chrome OS opens up as Chromium OS

After the bomb announcement 6 months ago, Google has open sourced its first operating system under the name Chromium OS, which will be the core for the release of Chrome OS, a year later. As of today, the code for next generation operating system will be fully open, from the code base till the user [...]

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Posted in: Linux | November 20, 2009
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How to write a HTML newsletter

One of the early marketing tools on the Internet which was used to reach the ever growing number of Internet users was the email. Today we have even an organization which establishes the standards for the newsletter code, but also for the email clients like Thunderbird, Outlook, Lotus Notes or Evolution.

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Posted in: HTML/CSS | November 6, 2009
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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released

Canonical is holding their word when it comes on the strict release schedule of Ubuntu releases. Ubuntu 9.10, with the codename Karmic Koala, has been released yesterday 29 October, a week after the release of Microsoft’s Windows 7.

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Posted in: Linux | October 30, 2009
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Fix for Internet Explorer 6 duplicate characters bug

Internet Explorer 6 or any other version has been and still is every Web Developer’s nightmare when it comes to designing even the most basic CSS for a website. Fortunately, with the release of Internet Explorer 8, most of the IE6′s past bugs have been fixed and slowly, but sure, Microsoft is getting Internet Explorer [...]

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Posted in: Web Development | September 2, 2009
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Datatracking Client at the anual Student Session of Communication

Every year Alma Mater University in Sibiu hosts the Student’s Session of Communication, a conference where students from the whole country gather to share their research outside the university environment. This year Ropardo was present with our research project TraSer Datatracking Client and was elected as the best project for the engineering section, receiving first [...]

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Posted in: File Tracking Client | May 26, 2009
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