1. On Speed

    Published on Apr 29, 2010 8:28:20 a.m. by Robert 0 comments
    Filed under: FLOW3

    In the release notes of FLOW3 1.0.0 alpha 8 I wrote that we'd care more about development speed than execution speed. During a discussion in the typo3-dev list someone pointed out that he's not comfortable with that – so maybe this needs some further explanation.

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  2. Dependency Injection (would be nice)

    Published on Apr 22, 2010 7:57:03 a.m. by Robert 4 comments
    Filed under: TYPO3

    After moving the website of my since-almost-the-first-day TYPO3 customer I realized that emails sent by the contact form would not reach their intended destination. After looking for a possible solution I realized that if TYPO3 had already been developed using dependency injection from the start, I'd now have a walk-over integrating a new mailer.

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  3. Continuous Delivery

    Published on Apr 14, 2010 8:55:23 a.m. by Robert 1 comments
    Filed under: Agile

    For almost two years now we use Hudson - the Continuous Integration server - for automizing tests of the FLOW3 and TYPO3 Phoenix projects. Since then this tool has been an invaluable help for spotting bugs and integration issues right after each commit. Inspired by Martin Fowler's CI article we always sought to automize the testing and release process but it needed another book to really enthuse me for the topic.

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  4. Debugging FLOW3 Applications

    Published on Mar 20, 2010 12:34:31 p.m. by Robert 5 comments
    Filed under: FLOW3

    Throughout the years my team and I have gathered quite some experience with debugging complex PHP applications like one FLOW3 is. Since FLOW3 controls the lifecycle, dependencies, proxy classes and scopes of almost all objects used in an application or the framework itself, the central parts contain a lot of references to other objects which in turn might refer back to central places like the Object Manager.

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  5. Managing a big project

    Published on Mar 9, 2010 8:46:07 p.m. by Robert 4 comments
    Filed under: TYPO3

    Over the last years TYPO3 Phoenix – and in the meantime also its sub projects FLOW3 and Fluid – have become huge and complex projects. Most of us surely underestimated the effort which needs to go in such a venture. On the other hand it doesn't come by surprise that creating a CMS from scratch which aims to excel the current TYPO3 in function, user experience, technology and code quality isn't a walk in the park.

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