Linux for Designers

Just 3 days then the international TYPO3 conference T3CON'08 will take place here in Berlin. Together with Sebastian Böttger i have a talk about the DEV3 - TYPO3 Enterprise Development project. It's quite nice to meet the community face to face May we meet us there!

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!

My talk at the T3CON'07 is over and so i published the new version of SweeTS that makes developing TYPO3 websites much easier

Again there is a problem using the actual Firefox 2.0.0.3 and the eich text editor (RTE) of Typo3. All about this is arrived in the bugtrackers of Typo3 and Firefox. People that installed the update of Firefox shouödd check out this solution here to get the RTE of Typo3 working again.

The next release candidate of Typo3 4.1 is released. Typo3 is one of the big and powerfull open source content management systems. Typo3 4.0 was updated too, just some security fixes. Grab all here.

The next beta of Typo3 4.1 is released. Typo3 is one of the big and powerfull open source content management systems. This beta adds some AJAX stuff and a lot of bugfixes. Read more about it at the TYPO3 news.