Further reading 2011
Holiday time is usually a great opportunity to take time for things which didn’t really fit into the passed by year and to pick up things which help me to see beyond my nose. Along with some paper work...
View ArticleTemplaVoila 1.6.x
Quite some things changed in the past months and I never found the time to clear up my mind and write up a summary. First of all TemplaVoila 1.6 was released parallel to TYPO3 4.6. It shipped with 22...
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Visualizing TYPO3 Core activity
DISCLAIMER: Don’t take the following too serious – when reading this post please keep in mind that the TYPO3 community itself consists of much more than just the Core team activity – many things take...
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Finding TypoScript errors.
When you work on TypoScript templates in TYPO3, errors might show up in the TypoScript Object Browser. Within the error messages you’ll see a more or less detailed error description with the related...
View ArticleTYPO3 login state and Varnish cache
Caching is hard in complex page setups with user specific content, especially when public pages change their content once a user is logged in. TYPO3 is smart enough to deal with the login state...
View ArticleRe: How to move on? #TYPO3
As I wanted to answer Robert’s post but didn’t like the privacy of our Core-internal list, here’s some kind of response to it. Alongside I’ll try to explain the current situation and problems a bit***....
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Using genetic algorithms to optimize Apache Solr boost factors.
Configuration interface.One thing I took along from last year’s ApacheCon was the idea to combine Apache Solr along with some mathematical search algorithms to figure out boost factor values. I did...
View ArticleTemplaVoila future
If you followed some of my comments in the TYPO3 newsgroups recently, you’ve heard that I’m not very satisfied with the TYPO3 project in general and that’s also reflected in my activity for...
View ArticleTemplaVoila - followup
It seems that publishing the news regarding TemplaVoila came to the right time and it found its way through the community. But along with it, some irritation came up which needs some additional words....
View ArticleOctopress migration
I’ve finally managed to step away from Wordpress and migrated my blog to Octopress. There were many reasons for me, the main reason was that I didn’t want to host it by myself anymore. The migration...
View ArticleSocket.IO within concurrent processes
The following is going to show some pitfalls and their solution when working with NodeJs, Socket.IO and concurrent processes. Basic setup Socket connections In order to use socket communication with...
View ArticleChef QA toolchain
In the past years I’ve jumped into the role of the DevOps evangelist at AOE. As it seems this was quite successful and people joined in quickly. But due to the fact that DevOps for us also means that...
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Chef cookbook dependecy visualization
In my previous post I’ve pointed out some tools which make your live with Chef much easier. Among these, Berkshelf helps with managing cookbooks and their dependencies. Depending on your workflows...
View ArticlePost mortem documentations or how to build knowledge during failures
Few months ago I tried to get my head around Post-Mortem documentations and found it particularly hard to fill the gap between the publicly available documentations and my aim to have company internal...
View ArticleUsing git svn for TYPO3 extension development
When I first saw a presentation about Git 2 years ago I liked it, but I was convinced that Subversion covers all I need. Things have changed and especially the bad performance of Subversion for larger...
View ArticleT3DD10 Git workshop
I just found that Peter shares the slides of the Git workshop from the T3DD10 on slideshare. Since this 4 hour workshop was – for many reasons – one of my favorites during the T3DD10, I felt that it’s...
View ArticleTYPO3 4.4 sprites in your extension...
TYPO3 4.4 ships with a long list of improvements. One of them is the sprite API which was developed during T3UXW09. It extends the iconWorks API and enables to retrieve any backend-icon from a central...
View ArticlePeter Sunde talking about flattr
Markus Beckedahl’s interview with Peter Sunde brought up some interesting insights into the system of flattr.com and the idea behind it. So if you’re interested in flattr.com you should listen the...
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