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I have one for you! Yesterday I uploaded the first version of the "Universal page browser" extension into TER. This extension provides page browsing services to other extensions.

Currently extensions either use their own home made page browser or use default from tslib_pibase. Neither of these solutions is good. Home made page browsers requires time to create and also to maintain. It takes space in the code. The default one is hard to configure, it is not flexible for any modern...

There are a lot of TYPO3 extensions in the Forge SVN repository but strangely very few of them use SVN tagging.

SVN normally have three directories for each project:

branchesThis directory is for separate development of the same product (for example, TYPO3 versions 4.1 and 4.2)tagsThis directory holds snapshots of the project at a certain point in timetrunkThis is the current development directory

Technically tags and branches are the same, it is just a convention that tags are not to be...

As some of the readers know, I recently switched from the Zend Studio to Komodo IDE for PHP programming and debugging. Recent versions of Zend Studio are slow, often hang, sometimes crash, ask stupid questions (for example, to select a file to debug with only one option) and extremely slow when debugging. Komodo IDE does not have any of these problems. It is not perfect, of course (for example, there are issues with autocomplete) but in general it is much better than Zend Studio.

The only...