Claus Witt

Organize Your Workplace When you have a disorganized workplace (your desk, and your surrounding) you are more prone to getting stressed. When you make sure that your desk, your surroundings, your computer and your mind are all organized, you will be able to focus on the tasks at hand, instead of the things that are [...]

For a simple walk through of how you can write widgets I decided to write a Twitter Widget, which shows a list of tweets for one or more people. The widget is simple to insert into a page. This widget of course needs Dojo on the page, and parseOnLoad (or a manual call to parse [...]

I am using gist.github.com more and more these days. And in my eager to save myself just a few keystrokes, I created a little script to get the contents of the clipboard and send it to a new gist on github. The source of this script, is of course pasted to gist with the help [...]

Our order processing system at voicearchive has several background tasks that need to run often. For this we have a very nice cli script, written in php, from which these tasks are called. The cli runs every two minutes – first checking if the last call has finished, if not, it exists early. To make [...]

I follow about 60+ rss feeds, which I screen every day. On weekdays I only read a couple of articles – 3 at the most. In the weekends I usually about 5-10 depending on my schedule. I spend less than 10 minutes a day screening all of these rss feeds. (However if I were to [...]

Typo3 like many other CMS’es have a problem with url’s. In Typo3 the RealUrl extension does a great job of allowing nice urls for pages which is great for seo, however the pages are still available from the “old” url (index.php?id=xxx). It is even worse for the home page of your website – it can [...]