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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:

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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...

I just committed a new feature to TYPO3 4.2 SVN. It will minify frontend javascripts. In my experiments it reduced size of default TYPO3 javascripts by 3 times! In combination with externalizing javascripts it will reduce traffic quite a lot. I hope to commit a patch that enabled this functionality by default in 4.2. Later we will modify BE to use minified files too, so BE will load faster as well.

We use JSMin for javascript minification. It has compatibile license, written in PHP and proven...

Search finally works on this site. It uses mnoGoSearch. Word forms are not working yet, I will set them up later next week. But otherwise everything works. I imported default search templates for TemplaVoila, so the whole setup took minutes.

Site is reindexed once a day, so today's articles become available next morning.

I just realized that one essential part is missing in the mnoGoSearch manual. This part is about creation of mnoGoSearch database. Without it indexing will not work. It will be corrected in upcoming version 1.0.0. It is ready but I cannot upload it to TER from my current location. I should do it on Monday morning.

It now supports templates with markers and have even better documentation.

If you have no idea what mnoGoSearch extension is: it is a newer and better search extension for TYPO3.

I just realized that I did not publish news about my "workspaces" presentation in time. Late but still, here it is. It is looks to workspaces from user perspective.

Presentation is prepared in OpenOffice and exported to to PDF format. Looks like normal presentation slides. Feel free to comment it.

I have one TYPO3-based site with a very large audience. There are hundreds requests every second. So far site works good. Today I decided to optimize file locations a bit and as a result I accidentally removed eAccelerator without realizing what I am doing.

When I restarted Apache, server immediately started to react slower. I looked to top output and found that load is 7.65 (this comes from /proc/loadavg). This was unusually high, never saw such before. Even it peaks it is less than 2. Quick...

Trackbacks in timtab do not work unless you have enabled allow_url_fopen in your php.ini. This happens because timtab uses file() PHP function to access external URLs. This is not TYPO3 way. TYPO3 has its own function to fetch URLs, it takes various issues into acount and may even do proxy authetication if necessary. And allow_url_fopen is known to be dangerous to site security, so many people disable it.

So I made a patch and hope that Ingo will integrate it into timtab soon. Patch is made...

Today morning I found once interesting post in the mailing list with a question about conditions.

Thomas Hempel created excellent TYPO3 wallpaper...