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After a longer development break i finished SweeTS 1.35, which i presented at the TYPO Camp Potsdam. The new version ships with updated templates, syntax highligter/ autocomplete and macros. It also includes an up-to-date help of TypoScript reference und TypoScript documentations including now tt_news. Another goodie are the code tools which can be found at the "Script" menu of PSPad.

http://typo3.familie-redlich.de/

Today TYPO3 4.3 hit the streets with a lot of new nice features:
* Mass uploader
* AJAX Frontend Editing
* Optimized performance
* Improved security
* Integrated System Scheduler
* Improved caching framework
* Improved recycling of deleted records
* New templating engine
...and much, much more!

Besides that fantastic release the important tt_news extensions is released as version 3.0 which brings a lot of improvements too.
But that's not all: Templa Voila 1.4.0, another very important extension, hit the streets.
So the TYPO3 development is very active this time

At familie redlich :systeme we do not care only about SEO and a perfect Typo3-based website, we care much about the customers needs and business workflow too. So developed an in-house standard that features anything needed for TYPO3 editors.
Besides the typical features like versioning, workspaces, groups, workflows and a perfect rich text editor - our websites ships now with a cool, clean, easy to use backend skin:

Compared with the admin standard TYPO3 interface this is a big step forward for editors using TYPO3 CMS. These screens illustrates again that TYPO3 can be very user friendly when it is setted up by pros

The 4th international TYPO3 conference is over now. After Sebastian and me finished our DEV talk (we were the first one) we could enjoy meeting the community, discussing ideas, listen to other interesting talks and celebrate funny evenings. Now i'm a little bit outpowered need a lot of sleep. Special thanks to new organizers for moving the T3CON'08 to Berlin. Soon it will possible order a DVD of the talks.

A lot of pictures of the T3CON08 can be found at Typo3 Blogger or at Flickr.

Last week i wrote a post about updates of the CMS Typo3 4.2x and 4.1x to fix security issues and problems of the Backend with Firefox 3. Not any Typo3 installation can be updated in time and i found a workaround how to use the backend of older Typo3 versions with Firefox 3:
* Login at the Typo3 Backend
* At the section "Web" klick on module "Page"
* The backend bug appears in FF3 - the first frame is missing
* press now the back button of FF3
* use now your Typo3 in the normal way

Today the TYPO3 project releases updates for the 4.0x, 4.1x and 4.2x series to work with Firefox 3. Besides that some security issues were fixed. TYPO3 is an open source, feature rich, content management system and framework built on PHP. Using SweeTS - delicious TypoScript development is an easy way developing TYPO3 websites.

The final of Typo3 4.2 is released today. At area42 we will start any new Typo3 project with it because this new stable brunch comes with over 650 improvements and a cool new backend interface for a much better usability! Typo3 4.2 requires now PHP 5.2 or higher. Try it out its a great step forward! If you find a bug submit it on the bug tracker.

Together with Sebastian Böttger from Cross Content Media here at area42 we started a month ago the tyClipse project which aimed a TYPO3 Enterprise Development solution on Eclipse.
Now we joined our forces with the FLOW3DE project to create together a bigger solution for TYPO3 4, TYPO3 5 and the new Framework FLOW3: DEV₃
Sebastian will present this project at the TYPO3 Developer Days 2008 (T3DD08) too.

I'm working on the next version of SweeTS. This time i'm focused on new features like code operations (cleaning, formating etc.).
SweeTS is a development enviroment for TypoScript and a external TypoScript editor. TypoScript is the template language of the content management system (CMS) TYPO3.
Another question is how to structure a better code explorer. About that i started a poll at the Typo3 Forum.net.

I updated the instructions about "Using SweeTS" at the bottom of the SweeTS webpage. It contains now helpful informations about getting off the template caching and how to get *.ts files edited in the backend of Typo3.

To get *.ts files edited in the backend of Typo3 you must allow editing of files and add this line to your "typo3conf/localconf.php"

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['textfile_ext'] = 'txt,html,htm,css,inc,php,php3,tmpl,js,sql,ts';

Add this into your user TSconfig field in the backend at Tools > Useradmin:

admPanel.override.tsdebug.forceTemplateParsing = 1

So while you are logged in into the backend (may over the browser sidebar) you don't have
to clear the cache.
These and other new hints will improve your workflow so much - check it out!