Based on Daniel Fischer’s article i document how i switched to Vim from TextMate after using TextMate for several years. Install MacVim download from https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/ (use latest snapshot) copy MacVim.app to your /Applications directory copy mvim into your path, change into the unzipped downloaded MacVim-snapshot-xx folder in your Terminal and enter: ?View Code BASH1 $ …
Category Archive: Webdev
Nov
24
2010
Mar
23
2010
Enable your webserver to feed iPhone with MP4 videos
I’m using iPhone OS 3.x on my iPhone and recently i had problems to get my .mp4 files displayed in mobile Safari. I tried different settings for encoding the files but not a single one worked. When i clicked the link to the .mp4 file in mobile Safari, all i got was the “file can’t …
Jun
12
2009
Using WordPress 2.8 and up with a proxy webserver in front
I use a public plain apache server with mod_rewrite to serve my wordpress as i don’t trust php enough to expose it to the world 
I wrote and updated a previous post describing what i’ve done to make things work for me, but now with Wordpress 2.8 it’s broken, so i had to figure out a fix for this problem again.
Aug
22
2008
How to hide a worpress instance behind a different apache server with mod_rewrite
I had the need to move my blog running wordpress 2.0.x to a different server, but keeping the domain name on the “old” server. I tried to do this with mod_rewrite and succeeded only partially 
after some hours of hacking around with mod_rewrite and wordpress itself i got i working and want to share my solution: note: let’s call the origin server SERVER A and the “new” server running wordpress and mysl SERVER B.
Apr
14
2008
Installing Flash Media Server 3 on Ubuntu Server
In the past i had to install Flash Media Server 2 on Ubuntu and Markus Bertheau’s Blog came to help with publishing a patch to make this work. Time went by and now i had to install Flash Media Server 3 on my Ubuntu box. Again Markus has a patch for the fms3 installer script …
Mar
25
2008
Safari 3.1 for Webdevelopers
Safari 3.1 adds some important updates for web developers: Adds option in Safari preferences to turn on the new Develop menu which contains various web development features Allows access to Web Inspector Allows access to Network Timeline Allows editing CSS in the Web Inspector Allows custom user agent string Improves snippet editor I was very …
Sep
10
2007
Anarchy Media Player
As you might already know, Anarchy Media Player is a way cool javascript-based player solution for playback of media files like .mp3, quicktime movies, flash movies and so on. The very cool thing about that is, all you have to do is to include the anarchy player javascript file into your html document and each …
Apr
04
2007
Running both IE7 AND IE6 in Windows XP
Yousif Al Saif from tredosoft.com has programmed an installer allowing you to run multiple Internet Explorer versions in parallel on your Windows XP: Download Multiple IE installer (10.3MB) please read Yousif’s original article here and check out the comments on this article as well, you will find some useful information there as well.
Feb
15
2007
Howto use Tiny MCE in Zope3
since i’m not very experienced with Zope 3 (yet) i had some troubles to turn a text input field in my own content type into a Rich Text Editor using z3c.widget.tiny. This is how i finally got it working (thanks to dobee): in my interfaces.py file for my content type i defined a normal Text field: …
Jan
14
2007
Installing Flash Media Server 2 on Ubuntu 6.10
The installation script for Flash Media Server works only on RedHat Enterprise by default. With some modifications it works fine on Ubuntu Edgy: apt-get install libnspr4 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashmediaserver/ updates/2_0_3/linux/flashmediaserver2.tar.gz tar xfz flashmediaserver2.tar.gz cd FMS* wget http://www.bluetwanger.de/~mbertheau/fms.patch patch -p1 < fms.patch sudo ./installFMS Live aus der Marschrutka √?¬ª Installing Flash Media Server 2 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy this howto is written bei Markus Bertheau, please check the original article and his blog here.