In this episode, I speak with Larry Garfield, a long-time PHP developer who has joined the TYPO3 core development team in 2021. We talk about the history of PHP and open source, Larry’s “scorched Earth” campaign against PHP 4 (his words), and what it’s like to be embraced by the TYPO3 community as a newbie.

A lot has happened since July. There’s easier onboarding for new users and Composer as standard, as well as a new upgrade guide and updates to the main documentation navigation.

The TYPO3 Education Committee posts an update about the Entry Level Certification project (you might know it as the Micro Certification Project).

Register now! 22–23 September, TYPO3 users, administrators, and developers from academic institutions, as well as employees from collaborating TYPO3 agencies, will meet again. Participation is free of charge. Registration closes 18 September.

You will soon be able to vote on the new Code of Conduct for TYPO3. But first, the Ombudsperson Group would like your feedback. All you need is a my.typo3.org user.

In this episode, I speak with Stefan Busemann. Stefan began TYPO3 in 2005, rapidly became a TYPO3 freelance developer, then a TYPO3 agency founder and owner around 2010. In that time, he has been a huge contributor to the project in many ways. He was a TYPO3 Association Board member for many years. Today, he is still Supervisory Board Member of TYPO3 GmbH and a member of the TYPO3.org website team.

The TYPO3 Core Team Codesprint held on 12–14 August, 2021 was a big success. Here is a wrap-up of what happened during this hackathon, and what we achieved.

9 September, 2021 is the 10th anniversary of the News Extension, created by Georg Ringer. This extension is probably the most popular third-party extension in the TYPO3 ecosystem.

Today we speak with Adrian Zimmermann, TYPO3 enthusiast and professional since (practically) the start. We talk about Adrian’s TYPO3 origin story and how his company, Snowflake Productions got its start, his favorite TYPO3 features, the interesting and varied work he’s created with the system, and TYPO3’s abundant community power and spirit … and snowboarding. Listen in to find out more about, “How snowboarding and open source taste so sweet together.”

The last half a year was really busy for us. Nevertheless, we want to keep you informed about our progress since November 2020, and give you an outlook on our further plans for the Content Blocks, the new Page Module and our Dynamic Grid.