1. Flying to T3CON11 San Francisco

    In 2005 a group of brave guys organized the very first TYPO3 conference. Jürgen Egeling certainly was the bravest of all, as his company took the financial risk, but not the gain. At one ocasion d ... Read more

  2. PHP Conference 2011 in Berlin

    I just finished my talk about FLOW3 1.0 at the International PHP Conference in Berlin. As usual, it was great meeting the usual suspects in the lobby but also see new faces in the session room.

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  3. Roadmap & Missing Features for FLOW3 1.0 Beta 1

    The next release of FLOW3 will be 1.0 beta 1 – that's no big news anymore. However, as we had to adjust the original schedule, you might ask yourself when the first beta version will be available. In order to get a realistic release date, we now ask for feedback by those who already gathered experience with the current Git master version of FLOW3.

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  4. Designing Error Messages

    As an A-380 pilot, a warning which says that bit 9 of data package 98887 sent through your ARINC 429 data bus is unexpectedly 0, will keep you busy for a while searching for the actual problem. On the other hand, a nicely crafted error message which states "Engine #3 is on fire" will give you a much better idea of what's currently happening on board.

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  5. Protected vs Private

    The Symfony and Doctrine2 project recently changed protected functions and properties into private in order to provide a well defined public API. While I agree with the principle, this has some bad side effects for FLOW3 code.

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