Conditions and dynamic values in TCA fields of TYPO3
TYPO3 backend and TCA simetimes appear a bit old school. Fields and values are less flexible like you are used to in recent AJAX applications. How to make them more flexible without heavy JS frameworks like ExtJS?
FLOW3 first alpha version released
Robert Lemke just announced that the first public alpha version of FLOW3 has been released. A reason to celebrate!
Tiny introduction to heatmaps
Heatmaps can be used for website usage analysis. They appear to be very easy to read and comfortable to understand. But in fact it's not that easy to assure a proper environment and to get reliable results.
Writing a basic Fluid ViewHelper
After listening to Sebastians talk today about the new templating engine Fluid, I felt inspired to give it a try. I am really surprised how easy it is to extend Fluid by writing an own view helper.
Extbase presentation at T3DD09
The TYPO3 Developer Days have started yesterday. Today, the first talk is about Extbase by Jochen Rau and Sebastian Kurfürst. Extbase is meant to be a transition path from TYPO3 version 4 to FLOW3.
Thinking about UTF-8 character set conversion in TYPO3
UTF-8 seems to become more and more popular as a character set used with TYPO3. Changing the charset of a system can be tricky and there are a lot of traps. Lots of mailing list requests prove that. Here's are some general thoughts about the subject (no howto!).
Book review of "TYPO Extension Development" by Dmitry Dulepov
The market for english books on TYPO3 is still very thin - compared to german books. This possibly depends on the great popularity TYPO3 enjoys in germany. Unfortunately a lot of these german books are oversized. Few of them are concentrating on one audience (editors, administrators, developers) and their specific task, but covering the full range of topics on TYPO3. For a TYPO3 extension developer that meant to skip 3/4 of the content of most books. In contrast, "TYPO3 Extension Development" by Dmitry Dulepov, recently published by Packt Publishing has chosen a different approach.
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About Steffen Müller
Since 2002, I am a user and developer of the TYPO3 content management system. I understand content management as an interdisciplinary task under the terms of a knowledge society. This task combines technical, economical and social aspects as well as profund analysis, planning and implementation.
Therefore I do not focus on plain coding, but on various aspects like usability, accessibility, customizability or empirical analysis, following actual findings in communication science. I am also very interested in the subjects of knowledge communication in open source communities and knowledge management in general.
I am a strong enthusiast and an active member of the TYPO3 community. Since May, 2009 I am a TYPO3 TRYDIVER ;-).
About TYPO3
TYPO3 is my favorite tool for content management. It combines enterprise level features with a well networked, highly active and progressive open source community.
