http://www.ben-peter.info PHP, CMS, Java, the web and more Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:33:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you ever pulled your hair about separators between menu entries on websites? Or just plain fell asleep? The task is trivial, but it is boring. Depending on what server side solution you are using, you end up with 4 to twenty lines of code. CSS3 would save us from that ... http://www.ben-peter.info/2007/03/11/client-side-menu-separators-with-jquery/ http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm Isorecorder is a free tool for Windows XP and Vista that can perform the following transformations: CD/DVD -> ISO Image Directory Tree -> ISO Image ISO Image -> CD/DVD (DVD only on Vista) Especially  the latter is a great equivalent to the ease of use that dd brings on Unix. I  like to just save ... http://www.ben-peter.info/2007/03/09/isorecorder-by-alex-feinman/ Every day, I walk past several Ströer appliances, and more often than not, they show interesting error messages. This time, I couldn't resist. http://www.ben-peter.info/2007/02/26/stroer-has-encountered-a-problem-and-needs-to-close/ Word 2007 works well for posting to a WordPress blog. Here is a step-by-step description. Use any existing document or create a new one. Once you're done, hit the Office Button -> Publish -> Blog You'll be asked to set up a blog account. Select WordPress as the blog provider and enter ... http://www.ben-peter.info/2007/02/24/using-word-2007-to-post-to-wordpress/ A friend asked whether it would be possible to have an image that can be dragged behind a mask, with a transparent navigation in the upper part of the page. The images are too large to fit on the page, so you need to be able to move it. Yes, ... http://www.ben-peter.info/2006/03/16/a-draggable-masked-image-behind-transparent-navigation/ AJAX allows for a lot of geeky stuff. I won't talk about that. What I like particularly about AJAX is that it makes it so easy to serve static pages in complex applications. Let's start with an example: I often do sites on which 90% of the pages are static, only ... http://www.ben-peter.info/2006/02/06/ajax-back-to-static-html-pages/ I noticed several times that sometimes Internet Explorer cuts off the left leg of the W. After a little investigation, I found that this happens when a W in 11px Arial touches the left border of a box without left padding or margin. If the box is the first element ... http://www.ben-peter.info/2006/01/25/internet-explorer-cuts-off-the-w-with-11px-arial/ The Strato HighEnd Root Servers come with Plesk 7.5 preinstalled, and everything is ready to roll. But looking at phpinfo()'s output, it was obvious that there were still things to do to get to a system on which ez publish websites would run. Here is what I did. http://www.ben-peter.info/2006/01/21/setting-up-a-strato-highend-server-with-plesk/ I finally received a satisfactory answer to my problems with Agile Messenger. They gave me three free months, and have talked to my provider (I don't know whether they talked to the SMS service provider or to E-Plus) and that I won't be charged for the SMS. Here is the ... http://www.ben-peter.info/2006/01/21/agile-messenger-problem-solved/ For a client, we rent a Strato Server with ServerAdmin24 pre-installed. ServerAdmin 24 is a customized ViSAS version. The web interface is supposed to give a hassle-free access to typical tasks of the server admin, clients, and domain owners. But outbound email from PHP did not work, and neither could FTP ... http://www.ben-peter.info/2006/01/19/deficiencies-in-stratos-serveradmin-24/