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• How to add context sensitive help (CSH) items to TYPO3 extension modules

  Feb 26, 2009 Software documentation is often rare and developers are lazy, when writing manuals instead of code. TYPO3 comes with a built-in help system which can easily be used to explain items directly in the backend. Dear lazy coder, let's have a look at it!

• Added some Description in german

  Feb 15, 2009 People sometimes ask me about a german version of this website. Although I am a native german speaker I do not plan to translate this blog to german. Nevertheless, I added a page with descriptions about me and this site in german.

• Why OpenOffice.org and Zotero are not communicating

  Feb 6, 2009 For my thesis I use OpenOffice.org in combination with Zotero (Firefox) to manage my references. (I already posted an article about Zotero over a year ago.) Both are powerful tools, but sometimes they are troublemakers...

• How to create a page browser in TYPO3 extensions?

  Feb 3, 2009 Hugh data listings can be confusing and hard to understand. That applies to search results as well as news collections, members directory or todo lists. Page browser divide listings into several parts, which make it much easier to keep track of the data. The following article describes and compares two approaches to integrate a page browser in TYPO3 extensions.

• Creating a diff of OpenOffice .odt documents on the command-line

  Dec 7, 2008 I just found a little easter egg to create diffs of OpenOffice.org documents (*.odt) on the command-line.

• Testing the forthcoming TYPO3 caching framework with memcached

  Dec 4, 2008 I just did some quick tests with the forthcoming caching framework of TYPO3. The results were surprising, although not the way I did expect.

• Thunderbird add–on to comfortably switch threaded view between all and unread only

  Nov 28, 2008 The header almost says it all - TYPO3 core developer Dmitry Dulepov has just published the Thunderbird add-on "Thread Views" which enhances usability when reading newsgroup threads.

• FE plugins need configurable baseWrap instead of static pi_wrapInBaseClass

  Nov 26, 2008 The output of most TYPO3 FE plugins are wrapped with a HTML div container by default (so called basewrap). This seems to be fair in most cases, but sometimes it is not and you have to get rid of them. Unfortunately, a lot of extensions including some of the most popular ones don't provide any control to handle this. This article describes how to do it better.

• How to link to a file in a FE plugin of TYPO3?

  Nov 24, 2008 This short snippet demonstrates the essentials of how to create links to files in FE plugins. It reveals the power of cObjects and TypoScript. This technique is typical for TYPO3 and it shows you why TYPO3 can be so amazing.

• Best kept TYPO3 secret - WAF

  Oct 10, 2008 The security team long time ago promised to release a ruleset for a Web Application Firewall (WAF) based on Apache's mod_security. Some are still waiting for an official announcement after the conference talk at T3CON07. And some have heard about it on todays talk at T3CON08.