Category Archives: WWW

Blog posts about web related things

db4free.net’s protest against SOPA & PIPA

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Markus Popp

Lets hope this is never necessary again! Because it’s never wrong to fight for the right thing. For our internet! Not some government’s!

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db4free.net is joining the protest against SOPA & PIPA

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Markus Popp

db4free.net is joining the protest against SOPA & PIPA and will stay down for 24 hours, starting January 18, 2012 at 02:00 UTC. Learn more on what this is all about at americancensorship.org … … and why the WEB GOES … Continue reading →

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Occupy Flash

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Markus Popp

Please help get rid of Flash once and for all!

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db4free.net has received better language detection

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Markus Popp

A few months ago I wrote about how to do language detection correctly, to respect the user’s preferred language setting in his/her browser, aka the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header. Now, finally, db4free.net has received exactly this implementation. Took me a while, but … Continue reading →

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OurSQL Podcasts available at dev.mysql.com

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Markus Popp

Noticed the new navigation item in the MySQL Developer Zone? Sarah Novotny and Sheeri K. Cabral have picked up the OurSQL Podcasts again which were on hiatus for a while (well, they have now been back again for a while … Continue reading →

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How to do user language/locale detection quickly without Zend Framework

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Markus Popp

Recently I wrote about detecting the preferred language or locale of a web site visitor, using Zend Framework. Well, I have to start with one correction. In my last blog post about this topic I talked about the User Agent … Continue reading →

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Running multiple Firefox versions & profiles at the same time

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Markus Popp

Oh my freaking Flying Spaghetti Monster! I used to think that I know Mozilla applications like Firefox and Thunderbird quite well. Now I’m wondering, how could I miss this feature that I’ve been wishing for so long? And actually, it … Continue reading →

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Smarty 3 and __autoload()

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Markus Popp

When I first tried out Smarty 3 (which is available as Release Candidate 3 at the moment), which was that I updated an existing Smarty 2 installation, I ran into this error message: Fatal error: Class ‘Smarty_Internal_Template’ not found in … Continue reading →

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How to detect the user’s preferred language – smarter than Google

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Markus Popp

Sometimes I find Google annoying. Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of the many Google haters out there. They have done amazing things and especially since they have released WebM as Open Source and royalty free video format, … Continue reading →

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