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Recently I started using a great tool called Google Page Speed. After inspecting some of my pages I was amazed to learn that a the 'ratings' extension uses the prototype.js file just for the XmlHttpRequest. Prototype is not. . .

YSlow says:

When the browser requests a static image and sends cookies with the request, the server ignores the cookies. These cookies are unnecessary network traffic. To workaround this problem, make sure that static components are requested with cookie-free requests by creating a subdomain and hosting them there.

If you have your own host, you can create such a subdomain with very little effort. The only thing you. . .

Web pages are becoming increasingly complex with more scripts, style sheets, images, and Flash on them. A first-time visit to a page may require several HTTP requests to load all the components. By using Expires headers these components become cacheable, which avoids unnecessary HTTP requests on subsequent page views. Expires headers are most often associated with images, but they can and should be used on all page components including scripts,. . .

A key feature of TYPO3 is its extendability and flexibility. Writing extensions was never easier since the Kickstarter and tslib_piBase.

But time doesn't stand still; new programming paradigms and other frameworks come up. Time to take a next step to faster, cleaner extension coding. During this talk we got in touch with the features of the new framework for extension development that will be introduced in TYPO3 4.3. We also dug into the. . .

A week ago it occured to me that it is nonsense to have mod_rewrite figure out if it has to rewrite stuff or not. It is better not to bother mod_rewrite with static items at all. This configuration started as an attempt to exclude '/typo3/*' from rewriting, but it evolved into a complete solution. 

We do NOT want to push the following requests to. . .

Yesterday some updates came out for TYPO3. These updates fixed certain issues and we needed to update all of our excellent shared hosting environments.

We already have a script (which is more elaborate now) that checks all our TYPO3 installations and sends the sysadmins a nice report about its findings. We use part of that report (list of paths to Document Roots). . .

Are you interested in TYPO3 extension programming? This is the first book on the subject. It is packed with the information you need. It's a good thing that there is finally a book about extension development for TYPO3. The newsgroups are always full of people asking how to do 'this' or 'that' when developing an extension. This book is an excellent starting point for an aspiring TYPO3 extension developer.

The DAM development team is proud to announce the release of version 1.1.0 of the DAM, the bugfix Release after "The Big Sleep".

Finally the new version is here due to the work of many people. We said 1.1 would be a christmas present and it is. Thanks Uschi for all your testing, suggestions, enthousiasm. Keep up the good work! Karma points all the way for you ;-) Thanks Stan for your communication with the DAM team and especially. . .

There are times when you need to backup your database or even copy the complete database to another server. If you are unlucky, you cannot use the mysqldump tool to make a copy of the complete database at once because that would bring down the server completely. It would also be nice to be able to rsync over the data to another server (the staging server). Then having one huge dump file is also sub-optimal.

A solution is needed that is. . .

A couple of weeks ago I thought the price of the mobile pipes and tubes had come down far enough to give them a try. So I went over to the local pipes and tubes distributor and shackled myself to a year-long agreement with them. I was totally happy the first train trip home, doing a video chat with Ben. All seemed to work quite. . .