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Today I went to check buzz.typo3.org for new articles. I scanned through some when I came across the article named "Dynamic Caching in TYPO3". The article is interesting because it describes unusual techniques related to caching. But author does one "not-so-good" thing. He promotes the use of $TSFE->set_no_cache(). As I said many times, this is evil and should be avoided at all costs! Search for another solution, do whatever tricks but never ever use set_no_cache()! It...

On Friday I posted another extension to TER. It is called "Yet Another Feed Importer". Why having "yet another"? Continue reading!

stdWrap is one of the most powerful and at the same time obscure TYPO3 functions. In these series of articles I am going to make this function more clear for both TypoScript and extension developers.

It appears that PayPal button did not work for some time. I wonder how many donations did I miss? :( Fixed now but still bad feeling...

"Why should I use TYPO3 and not some other CMS?" or  "My boss wants to know why we should use TYPO3?" These questions appear in TYPO3 _mailing lists_ from time to time. It is no doubt that TYPO3 is a very powerful CMS. I would even say that it is the most powerful CMS in the world right now. But power alone is not a very big reason to use TYPO3. Even if TYPO3 is the most powerful, does it serve well? It serves many web sites on the Internet. But will it be able to serve...

Here is a new review of the Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think!" book.

There were some discussions during T3DD08, in the mailing lists and by Skype that we need some changes in TYPO3 UI. I was fighting my points hard. One of my points is: change existing and stable things only if it is absolutely necessary because people are already used to them.

I am not talking about bug fixing here. Bug fixes usually do not force people to learn new things. I am talking about changing UI in the incompatible way.

One good (or bad, depending on your views) example is...

I decided to change how URLs to artciles look like. Earlier it was like /post-details/archive/2008/may/10/whatever/. Segments 2 to 5 do not add any value to URL, they just lengthen it. So I got rid of them. Don't worry, all your bookmarks are still valid! I added mod_rewrite redirection for old addresses.

Here is what I did...

This a part two of the “RealURL made easy” series. In the first part we reviewed how url is constructed using RealURL and saw what are main configuration directives. This part will show practical steps to create a good RealURL configuration. The next (3rd) part will teach you some neat configuration tricks. But first we have to create the configuration.

From RealURL perspective all installations can be divided into to groups: single-domain tree and multi-domain tree. Single domain tree is the...

Some time ago I come across two programs and I would like to share my experience with the TYPO3 community. These programs help computer specialists to keep better health and improve life quality.