Alltogether it was a great event and once more it was really good to meet all the people from the TYPO3 community.

Beside all the interesting sessions and discussions there was a lot of "socialising" - especially the midnight swimming.

A video will follow soon.

Photos

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=t3dd08&z=t

typo3blogger.de/photos/

Relevant Links for sessions:

Official website:

t3dd08.typo3.org

Status of TYPO3 5.0:

http://news.typo3.org/news/article/typo3-v5-project-report-april-2008/

Advanced languagevisibility session:

All Information for languagevisibility

Interesting extension for object-relational-mapping:

http://www.fabrizio-branca.de/fablog/post/tcaobjects.html

(slides / extension in TER)

Productivity session:

typo3bloke.net/post-details/archive/2008/may/10/t3dd08_productivity_session/

Thank you posts and others

www.typo3-unleashed.net/singleentry/date/2008/05/11/t3dd08-its-over.html

buzz.typo3.org/people/francois-suter/article/joining-the-crew/

typo3blogger.de/vielen-dank/

typo3bloke.net/post-details/archive/2008/may/12/t3dd08_is_over/

I give up and started also on TWITTER :-) www.twitter.com/typo3media

• There was a small keynode with brainstorming about the problem of the "last 10 meters in developing things".
• After that another brainstormingsession moderated by Robert Lemke with the topic how to get people to contribute to TYPO3 5.0. Several things were decied:
  • "user stories" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_story should be used within the forge.typo3.org website to get requirements from a larger amount of peoples
  • as an inspiration the Scrum projectmanagement should be used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29
  • Robert is going to make podcasts informing about the last and the next steps on the 5.0.0 version

• after that I was presenting the concept of "languagevisibility", more informations on this will follow here soon.

But now I have to check the socialising...

Official News:

news.typo3.org/news/article/typo3-association-releases-version-42-focus-on-usability-and-performance-improvements/

Lars entertained the auction and it results in 711 beers:

• 10 normal bugs -567 Beer
• a special TYPO3 5.0 Bug 144 Beer

The winners are allowed to be named and linked on a newsentry at typo3.org.

We actually contributed 110 beer for two Bugs (7991 and 4575)

Great!

Together with this the april-joke caused lot of laughings...

• much fun riding
• cool and nice people
• geeky wlan sessions
• jamy food
• minimalistic rooms
• nice chillout places in the hostel
• cool view
• wet snow

More photos:

typo3blogger.de/photos/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25200166@N03/sets/72157604330526250/

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=t3board08

Leider lässt das TYPO3 Tabellen Element keine erweiterte Kontrolle zu wie:

• cellspan und rowspan
• explizite Vergabe von Klassen für Zeilen und Zellen
• explizite Vergabe anderer Eigenschaften einer Zelle (Zelltyp...)

Um dies zu erreichen gibt es jetzt die Erweiterung aoe_advancedtable, mit der man weitere Kontrolle in dem Tabellenelement hat:

1. cellspan: Wird erreicht, indem als erstes Zeichen "<" eingegeben wird.
2. rowspan: Wird erreicht, indem als erstes Zeichen "^" eingegeben wird.
3. Eine Syntax erlaubt weitere Attribute: "{<keyword>=<wert>;<keyword>=<wert>}". Erlaubte Keywords:
   
   • rowClass (Setzen der Klasse einer ganzen Zeile)
   • class (Setzen der Klasse einer Zelle)
   • cellType=header (setzen der Zelle auf th)

Wie das ganze aussehen kann zeigen die Screenshots.

Hintergrund und Installation:

Die Erweiterung baut auf css_styled_content auf und verwendet zur Generierung der Tabelle die Extension th_exttableservice von Thomas.

Zur Verwendung muß die Extension lediglich installiert werden und im Template der Seite unter dem Punkt "include static from extensions" das Template "Advanced Tables Content" includen.

The main idea is to reuse the content stored in the CMS.

The way how it works:

1. an editor can create a set of contentelements with the help of a backend modul
2. The set (collection) can be saved for later exporting
3. The collection can be exported to several target formats:
   • contentelements are exported as XML files
   • XML is transformed with XSLT to several target formats like Latex/Indesign Import ... then

Relevant Use-Cases:

• collaborative work on print-products
• Autoexport a printversion of a Webcatalogue
• generate several handbooks/ flyers etc with the content of your webpage.

The work is supported by AOE media GmbH.

He did really good work and the first result can be viewed as a screecast here:

Comments and ideas are very much welcome (please follow direct link to article therefore)

Open the Screencast >>

Direct Link to the article >>

FLOW3 is the name for the new PHP Framework which will be the Basis for TYPO3 5.

Read all here:

News from T3N

Or visit the Frameworkpage:

http://flow3.typo3.org/

In this post I would like to suggest and talk about 10 extension I really like.

1. More Flags for Websitelanguages: syslanguage_flags

Ever need more than the default flags for your website language? The solution is this extension from Tolleiv Nietsch which adds many (every) flag to this record.

2. Powerful Upload: ameos_dragndropupload

Userfriendly upload of complete folderstructures (maybe also known for new versions of DAM). Thanks to Jerome Schneider.

3. Inheritance and Slide for flexforms and TemplaVoila: kb_tv_cont_slide

This is a small but smart extension to have diffrent kinds of inheritance for flexformfields. Its a must have for TemplaVoila pages. (Kraft Bernhard)

4. File-Browsing in the BE: t3quixplorer

Nothing for a live page because of security issues: But very useful during developing. (Mads Brunn)

5. Larger Textfields in the BE: pmktextarea

If you want larger inputfields (textarea) in the BE, e.g. for editing TypoScript? This extension from Peter Klein adds resizeable textfields with some other features like search, linenumbers,fontsize to the backend of TYPO3.

6. Bring more usability to TemplaVoila: nh_tvdragndrop

This extension from Nikolas Hagelstein adds a cool drag and drop feature to the page modul of TemplaVoila.

7. Dummy Content everywhere: lorem_ipsum

Nice extension from Kasper to have quick dummy daa in your Contentelements. Its also a good example how to build cool wizards.

8. Iframes for editors: ffiframe

Flexformbased iframe element from Peter Klein.

9. Usability in Links: linkhandler

Bring more usability to new TYPO3 installations: This extension enables userfriendly links to any record. (Like tt_news)

10. Add google analytics easy: m1_google_analytics

This extension from Philip Almeida let you add the google analytics code easy, just by setting the urchin code. Also it has support for more advanced tracking like tracking links to files/external urls (without using XCLASSes).