Making a password-protected folder on Contao

by Howard Richardson

Is plain old HTTP authentication compatible with Contao? I attempt to find out!

Moving a blog from Wordpress to Contao 3.5

by Howard Richardson

Here I discuss the solution I came up with for moving 150 blog articles from a Wordpress installation to a new Contao blog, complete with tags and categories.

Gigabyte motherboards, Linux and IOMMU

by Howard Richardson

How I fixed USB and Network "suddenly" breaking in Linux.

Events date formatting in Contao

by Howard Richardson

The default Contao events templates leave a lot to be desired when it comes to formatting the dates and times. I get to grips with the different options and write some template code for all eventualities.

Repairing a headphone lead: Sennheiser PX100

by Howard Richardson

See how I took three old pairs of headphones with broken leads and made one working pair!

Adding IMDb ratings to BBC iPlayer films - a greasemonkey script

by Howard Richardson

A simple JQuery greasemonkey add-on which rates the films on BBC iPlayer.

Downloading Audible audiobooks without the download manager

by Howard Richardson

Find out how to avoid installing the rubbish download manager that Audible forces on you.

Member-only image access on Contao

by Howard Richardson

How to use Apache mod_rewrite and some extra scripts to restrict access to images to only logged-in users.