TemplaVoila’s “new page wizard” is a pretty cool featue - at least if your page templates have a thumbnail and a description. If your “new page wizard” look like the image on the right you might consider to turn it of. That’s pretty easy just paste this into the Page TSConfig of your rootpage and you’re done: mod.web_list.newPageWiz.overrideWithExtension > Now you might wonder how TemplaVoila knows what template it should use to render the page - but due to the TV’s default behaviour to inherit the page-template this should not be a problem if there’s at least a TemplaVoila page template assigned for your root-page. ... Read more

Georg just published a nice littel mashup where you can place a pin on a Google-Map - It’s meant to show where the TYPO3 community is located and how big it is. It seems that already lot’s of people placed their pins - so what you’re waiting for? (click)

Today I got the hint from a colleague that there’s some app from RockstarApps which enables to optimize CSS and JS in Eclipse on the fly. I just did some work on myimagemap_wizard TYPO3 extension and it seems to work pretty well - therefore I highly recommed to checkout the Rockstar WebOptimizer if you’re developing Javascript applications. It seems that it also supports CSS sprite generation - this might be a followup tomorrow ;)

If you use the shell and walk around in directories wouldn’t it be cool to have “cd …” to move 2 levels up, “cd ….” to move 3 levels up …? I’m not sure if there’s an easier way to resolve it but the following lines work pretty nice so far and they just made it into my default .bashrc :P cd() { if [[ "$1" =~ ^\.\.\.+$ ]]; then cd `echo "$1" | sed 's/\. ... Read more

jQuery 1.3 made a huge step especially towards better performance. But it’s not only the framework, from time to time it’s the developer who should care about performance too. Artzstudio.com made up a really good summary of how you should change your coding-style to achieve a higher performance with jQuery. In my opinion the most important things are: Use ID selectors whenever possible since this can be directly mapped to getElementById() it much faster then all the other selectors ... Read more

Over the last days I did some small steps to clean up the code of my TYPO3 imagemap extension. During that process I wanted to update jQuery from 1.2.6 to 1.3.2. Initially this went fine but after some testing I found this strange error: [Exception... "'Syntax error, unrecognized expression: #' when calling method: [nsIDOMEventListener::handleEvent]" nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)" location: "<unknown>" Due to the verbosity of the message (location “” ) it wasn’t obvious for me that what’s going wrong. ... Read more

This week has gone by so very fast - the most interesting thing was that Tetris is now 25 years old. Happy birthday :) After 2.5 years of work the TYPO3 guys published the first Alpha version of FLOW3 - that’s the amazing framework for TYPO3 Version 5 and I can’t wait to test it. Since they decided to have a “release” every month the next alpha will be ready at the beginning of July. ... Read more

The answer to life, the universe and everything << that was easy but what about famous people like Homer Simpson? D’oh! OK last try - any results for ‘tolleiv’ .. no? thanks :(

[(/uploads/2009/06/svn2t3x-snap.png) From time to time it’s really buggin me that some “TYPO3 integrators” don’t have PHP skills. And since Subversion is imho the most important tool within groups of developers, their missing PHP skills are a real downside because they can’t use the newest extension version directly out of the Subversion repository. Therefore I decided to create a handy little tool which enables to generate TYPO3 .t3x extension-files from any Subversion repository. ... Read more

If you’re still wondering whether the single- or double quotes are processed faster in PHP you might want to look at phpbench.com. They don’t provide any ground breaking new insights, but they show in a very nice way what’s best pratice when it comes to arrays, strings and loops…