Fluid is the next generation templating engine, that will be used in TYPO3 v5 (Phoenix). It was backported to TYPO3 v4 so everyone can enjoy the advantages of a full templating engine. But what are those advantages? First of all, it is easily possible with fluid to separate view logic from other parts of the application. With traditional templating you often see functions fetching data, then looping over it, putting everything in a classic subpart whilst doing the complete logic in the same step. Of course this is bad coding style and a good coder would separate it more, but you'll always have some functions that are doing "view stuff". Let's have a look at a small example:

Today, the TYPO3 community released the second beta of the upcoming version 4.4 of TYPO3. There is already a feature freeze in place since beta1, thus the last weeks have been all about bugfixing - over 80 changes were made during the development. Additionally, the last few features have finally made its way into the TYPO3 Core.

The latest Bug Day was a very busy time. A lot of people participated and several companies and schools responded to the call for offering meeting places.

A project has been started on Forge with the goal to achieve real browser compatibility of the TYPO3 back-end as it is delivered out of the box by the TYPO3 core.

On Monday Google announced the list of students accepted into the Summer of Code program 2010.

TYPO3camps in Potsdam, Hamburg and Munich on the way .... Tickets for Potsdam only this very day .... TYPO3 Association sessions and certification .... first TYPO3camp in Italy projected for October/November

Join us for San Francisco TYPO3 CAMP • May 6-13, 2010

The next Bug Day will take place on April 30th, 2010. Join us on that day to push forward TYPO3 development.

The FLOW3 core team is delighted to announce the release of the eighth alpha release of FLOW3.

Here comes the latest release of TYPO3 4.4. We've just hit feature freeze, and are now entering the last phase on the road to the final release of TYPO3 4.4.0, which is scheduled to be published on June 22nd, 2010.