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Introduction to TYPO3 Flow
In his workshop series “Introduction to TYPO3 Flow” Robert Lemke provided Flow-interested developers with answers to their questions. After a general introduction to Domain Driven Design, AOP and the PHP-Package-Management '<link http: getcomposer.org>Composer' things went straight to the point and Robert explained, based on his Bookshop Example, how one can program a small shop with a few elegant lines of code and a lot of Flow Basic functions. Here are the slides to the topic: <link http: de.slideshare.net robertlemke typo3-flow-20-workshop-t3-board13>TYPO3 Flow 2.0 Workshop T3BOARD13Grid Elements 2.0
The TYPO3 extension “Grid Elements“ that allows Grid Layouts for content elements has existed since 2011. This extension has been developed further with the aim to fundamentally improve the usability of the TYPO3 backend. Interestingly in this case, the project has been financed by <link http: www.startnext.de typo3-grid-elements-2-0>the Crowdfunding-Platform Startnext where some 100 supporters helped raise the required 30,000 euros. On T3BOARD, project leader Jo Hasenau showed the possibilities of Grid Elements 2.0 and how it works in practice.
The following video will give you some more insight into Grid Elements 2.0 (German with english subs): <link http: www.youtube.com>www.youtube.com/watch.
Require JS
The Mozilla developer James Burke developed <link http: requirejs.org>Require JS as a kind of “Mini-Packetmanager“ for JavaScript. As a developer you are able to define a one-time dependency between RequireJS for a JavaScript application and other JavaScript libraries (like JQuery), and RequireJS will take care of loading and optimizing all Javascript files in the project. For those developers that have previously developed a projects with lots of JavaScript files and had to cope with these JavaScript files being loaded in the wrong order, RequireJS will become a good friend. TYPO3 core developer Sebastian Kurfürst, introduced RequireJS in a presentation, that he would repeat the next day at the <link http: events.jquery.org eu>jQuery Conference Europe.
You can find his slides here: <link https: speakerdeck.com skurfuerst using-requirejs-for-building-modular-javascript-applications>speakerdeck.com/skurfuerst/using-requirejs-for-building-modular-javascript-applications
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TYPO3 for students
On Wednesday 30 students from an engineering college visited the TYPO3-Community at the Schmittenhöhe. Core developer Michael Stucki showed the students what TYPO3 is about, how the Open Source CMS functions and how the community further develops the system. He also answered questions from the students, for instance, about the difference between TYPO3 TYPOlight / Contao and the advantages of using Open Source Software over proprietary software. Original article by Jan Christe on T3N: <link http: t3n.de news t3board-2013-sessions-schnee-444971>t3n.de/news/t3board-2013-sessions-schnee-444971/Thank you Ian Devlin of the TYPO3 Editorial Team for proofreading.