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April 2010

April started with a fresh new focus on the TYPO3 project. The first sprint for TYPO3 Phoenix was started, lots of work is in progress for TYPO3 version 4.4, the month was closed with the revived bug days and it was my first full month as TYPO3 Product Manager and Chairman of the Steering Committee.

Bug hunting conjunction on May 28, 2010

In the Year of our Lord 2010, on the 28th of the month of May, a powerful conjunction of stars and planets will favor bug hunting!

TYPO3 Association extraordinary General Assembly

On May 10th and 11th the TYPO3 Associations Board and Steering Committee (SC) met in Munich for an extraordinary General Assembly. As planned on the regular General Assembly in March the new bylaws had been prepared and voted for.

Fluid - Next Generation Templating

Fluid is the next generation templating engine, that will be used in TYPO3 v5 (Phoenix). It was backported to TYPO3 v4 so everyone can enjoy the advantages of a full templating engine. But what are those advantages? First of all, it is easily possible with fluid to separate view logic from other parts of the application. With traditional templating you often see functions fetching data, then looping over it, putting everything in a classic subpart whilst doing the complete logic in the same step. Of course this is bad coding style and a good coder would separate it more, but you'll always have some functions that are doing "view stuff". Let's have a look at a small example:

Release of TYPO3 4.4beta2

Today, the TYPO3 community released the second beta of the upcoming version 4.4 of TYPO3. There is already a feature freeze in place since beta1, thus the last weeks have been all about bugfixing - over 80 changes were made during the development. Additionally, the last few features have finally made its way into the TYPO3 Core.

April 30, 2010 Bug Day Report

The latest Bug Day was a very busy time. A lot of people participated and several companies and schools responded to the call for offering meeting places.

Backend Cleanup Project

A project has been started on Forge with the goal to achieve real browser compatibility of the TYPO3 back-end as it is delivered out of the box by the TYPO3 core.