Lately I had to realise that the OwnCloud support for SQLite is literally only for testing, even if you have a single user, despite what I have read out of the documentation (which states you could use SQLite for few user sites).

I had several issues with my calendars as well as my contacts (failed to sync, failed to import, etc.), which all vanished when I migrated/converted the database to MySQL. Luckily, OwnCloud has support for exactly that use case. Just invoke the following (given you have setup php correctly).

My Disqus module did not seem to work any longer (the comments no longer showed up in the blog posts). I fixed it hopefully by reinstalling the Disqus module, updating the Libraries API module to version 2.x (and then reconfiguring the Disqus module).

After I upgraded OwnCloud, I got the following error message when trying to enable the Calendar or Contacts plugins:

cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate

I just fixed an issue that kept the OS X Contacts.app from synchronising with OwnCloud when running behind a reverse proxy. For those who wonder, a reverse proxy is useful if you have a gateway http server that forwards http requests for web servers in a private network.

Today I found out some features of the Skype chat that must have sneaked in in the last versions, since nobody has posted about it yet. I was having a hard time when pasting text into the chat which contained character that were easily misinterpreted as emoticons, e. g. (0) as well as using basic text formatting like bold, italic or strikethrough.

As written in a post before, I customized the Drupal RSS feed icon by replacing it with my own PNG icon. Unfortunately, the PNG icon should be designed well and is never scalable when using pixels. Therefore, I wanted to change it to a font based (vector) icon using again free fonts from font squirrel.

Yesterday evening I decided to move from dynamic http/https switching to SSL (https) only mode. I decided to do so because I want everybody to feel free to take down her tin foil hats when visiting my site.

As I promised a while ago, I will discover some details of the current nesono Drupal 7 theme. It has been optimized towards readability and is inspired by services like pocket (read it later), readability, and the reading plugins for several browsers.

In this post, I will explain the font settings as specified in the CSS files of this site’s theme.

I just enabled support for Disqus, as I think this should be much nicer for most of you, not having to give bogus user names and homepage links etc. but simply use one Disqus account. I kept the old comments active, but did not manage to merge them into Disqus, though. Hence, you’ll probably see two comment counters on some posts sometimes.

Today I visited one of these web pages that try to increase your security by prohibiting pasting the password from the clipboard. As I use a password generator and like to have large passwords, typing the password by hand three times was no option for me. I searched the web for a solution and found nothing. Maybe I was just asking the wrong questions, but I don’t mind. Here’s my solution.