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T3DD08 is over. This was great event: lots of interesting talks and lots of interesting discussions. Really good recreation as well (especially pool night on Saturday). I have some fascinating ideas, which I may put at work soon. Due to this I had to put "unavailable" flag for any freelance work. I truly need to think about ideas that I have and make some prototypes.

Thanks a lot to Gina, Thomas along with Mario and people from "helping hands" team for the great...

Jens Hoffman said aloud an idea, which I know for a long time but which is not heard as often as it should be: "Do not make a feature just because you can". This is really right thing! Things should not be made just because it is possible to make them. They should be made only if necessary. It perfectly follows KISS principle ("Keep it simple, stupid!"). Life is complex enough, there is no need to make it even more complex!

Some people asked for files from productivity session. Here it is as image. Feel free to use for non-commercial purposes.

While thinking about TYPO3 performance, I remembered one question asked about TYPO3 and phpMyAdmin.

phpMyAdmin complains that some TYPO3 tables use the same field in more than one index. Why does it complain?

Firsts, it must be stressed out that there is no error here. It is perfectly legal to use the same field in several indexes. If there are several complex queries, composite indexes (i.e. indexes that have several fields in them), can make these queries faster. It is useless to put fields...

I just made a very first version of Zend Debugger extension for TYPO3. Those, who use PDT or Zend Studio for debugging PHP, know how invaluable is PHP debugger. However those who do not use FireFox or MSIE cannot easily use debugger. For example, Mac users may not easily debug TYPO3 PHP code from Safari. They will have to start debugging session from PDT or Zend Studio manually.

Since I migrated to Mac I found necessity to switch to FireFox for debugging to be inappropriate. FireFox works much...

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There are several posts this week in TYPO3 mailing lists about blogging with TYPO3 using timtab. Some posts compare timtab to WordPress. Since I used both, I can compare too.

I use timtab on this site and want to share some thoughts about it. This post can be seen as a summary of what I wrote in mailing lists.

Comparison: timtab vs WordPress

Installing timtab was not as easy as it was for WordPress. WordPress'es "famous installation" tool asks only two things: name and slogan of the blog....

I upodated llxmltranslate extension to shorten a list of files. There is a huge amount of files to translate now, so the list loads very slowly. Now translator has to select extension first and only then to select file from a much shorter list.

After reviewing patches in core team list, I am really excited about TYPO3 4.2. It already got much more nice features than 4.0 introduced. Code is improving even more than earlier, it becomes faster and cleaner. I really like how 4.2 (development version) works! I should upgrade PHP on this server and install current trunk version here :)

I sometimes get questions: when an updated version of XYZ extension will be released? I decided to answer here.

At the moment I maintain several more or less popular extensions:

templavoilarealurlmininewsmnogosearchadndreas01andreas09t3faces

I try to updated them, fix bugs, add new features as quickly as I can but there is a lot of other TYPO3-related work around and I cannot say exactly when new version will be released. I have lots of ideas (some of them in the TYPO3 bug tracker) but I do...