Good Bye Milwaukee / back in Austria
Wow, the last days flew by way too fast! A weekend on the other side of Lake Michigan (with surfing, dune-buggy session and a ride back on the lake express); A farewell-pizza-party at work/sois on friday, then (an unexpected and wonderful) kiteboarding-session at Bradford Beach with almost all my friends (never had seen so many kites at once in Milwaukee), a last good evening at café Hollaender with friends Saturday.. and then finally Chicago o’Hare for my flight Sunday back to Austria (thx for the ride, Jeff!). This time all my luggage arrived save in Austria, no need to call Egypt this time.
There are so many people to thank - Jeff, Julia, Sparky, Chad, Anthony, Jacques, Dean Britz, Rebecca, Stafford, Paul, Elizabeth, Beth, Sam, Joey, Don, Ryan, Dylan, Monica, Nataly, Ania, Dalius, Matt, Tony, Vim, “Skipper” Terry), Sean, Andy, … I am sure I forgot to mention dozens of friends (and I will be constantly updating this post ;) - it was an awesome time, and I am already missing Milwaukee and these people a lot.
For the next days I will have to get my stuff back to my apartment, get rid of my jet lag (seemed like I was placed in the ’screaming baby - section’ of the plane, I was SO glad to have some earplugs with me) and next Monday work at the university in Hagenberg starts again - not much kiteboarding anymore for michael ;)
Last week to start soon…
The last week for this stay here in Milwaukee is close, I am starting to feel a bit sad to leave this nice place.. Yet some friends from kiteboardmilwaukee.com (which was relaunched a few days ago, now done in typo3 by me ;) are going to the ‘other side’ of the lake (Michigan) to get some decent wind for kiteboarding.
For kiteboardmilwaukee.com I was searching quite a while for “watermarking” the images that appear on the site, but not the thumbnails only the bigger versions. This can be easily done in Typo3 but I could neither find nor figure out a solution to get it work together with the perfectlightbox extension. I managed to get it working after a while though but then all images on the site were click-enlargable which was not my intention… With the help of the developer of the extension now it works and since maybe somebody else might find the TS code helpful, I will share my final code here:
tt_content.image.20.1 { imageLinkWrap { typolink { parameter.override.cObject = IMG_RESOURCE parameter.override.cObject.file = GIFBUILDER parameter.override.cObject.file.XY = [10.w],[10.h] parameter.override.cObject.file.10 = IMAGE parameter.override.cObject.file.10.file.import.data = TSFE:lastImageInfo|origFile parameter.override.cObject.file.10.file.maxW = {$plugin.perfectlightbox.lightBoxMaxW} parameter.override.cObject.file.10.file.maxH = {$plugin.perfectlightbox.lightBoxMaxH} parameter.override.cObject.file.20 = TEXT parameter.override.cObject.file.20 { text.data = date:Y text.noTrimWrap = |(c) | {$imageWatermarkText} | align=right offset=-10,[10.h]-15 fontSize=10 fontColor=#e55b16 niceText=0 outline { thickness = 1,0 color = #eeeeee } fontFile = fileadmin/templates/fonts/fontname.ttf fontSize = 28 } } } }
I am not a big fan of watermarks but for some situations a subtle url in a corner of an image is ok imho, especially if it comes to linking pictures from within message boards etc.. An example of the working script can be found e.g. on the gallery section of kiteboardmilwaukee.com