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The TYPO3 CMS is extremely powerful and infinitely configurable and customizable. These are great features in a CMS when your client asks the question "Can we do...on our site?" and you can always say yes. But sometimes the ability to customize the CMS anyway you want leads to some obscurity on the 'how' side of things. I've had cases when I know the customizing I want to do is possible, but finding out exactly how to do it is the problem. As with many OpenSource projects, the documentation although being adequate is often pretty thin on the 'how-to' portion. This can be compounded by breaking changes between major versions. 

Recently I was the lead on a TYPO3 site migration from version 7 to version 9. Once the testing was done, scripts written and the migration completed there were some outliers as I expected. One of these outliers was related to migrating from the core layout extension css_styled_content to the newer extension…

This is a quick overview of the different areas of the Microsoft Teams App. These areas are accessed using the icons down the left side of the application window. 

 Activity:

This is a record of your use history in Teams. You can use this timeline to review your interactions with other team members.

 Chat:

You can use chats to have private text-based discussions or ask questions of one or more team members. To start a chat with a specific team member just type the '@' followed immediately by their name or email address. This will invite them to a new chat. You can switch your chat to a 'Call' by clicking the video or phone icon in the top right corner of the chat if you want to talk or have a face-to-face meeting.

 Teams:

Teams are the collaboration hub of the Teams app. A team is made up of a group of people who are connected by a specific project or division within the organization. This is a place for discussion, sharing of…

There is nothing so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour - Charles Dickens

On your deathbed, are you going to be okay with the fact that you didn't step out of your comfort zone and do the thing your heart so desperately wanted to do?

Having a backup of your Apple Mac laptop or desktop is essential in today's digital world. You need to be protected from external threats like virus' as well as from any potential hardware failures on your computer. For the Mac user, your first line of defence is Time Machine, Apple's built-in backup system. Let's review how to get started with Time Machine backups.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started

— Mark Twain

This is not new to me, I break stuff all the time. Its how I learn...the hard way. Java has taken a beating on the web in recent years because of major secruity issues, but I've been using java on my desktop computer for years without any issues. I need java because I run the Eclipse IDE for coding many of the PHP web projects. Most recently I was doing a major update to a website built on top of the cakePHP framework. If you going to code a web-app and you want to use Java, make sure you know what your doing, I just need it to run my local IDE. 

When I received a desktop notification that there was a new version of Java, I do what I always do, I install it. Knowing that Java has security issues I like to keep it update-to-date in order reduce the level of risk I'm exposed to by having it installed. Usually at the end of every update the installer will ask if I want to remove old versions of Java, this is a good idea since it also…

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can to him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson