Caching in extensions

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TYPO3 4.3 features a new caching framework, which has been backported from FLOW3. The framework (should one choose to use it – more on that later) allows placement of default TYPO3 caches in DB tables, files, memcached, APC, or any other backend that can be created by implementing a PHP interface. But even more –… Read more »

Visit Moscow

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Got this ad in Facebook today: Huh? “Like to Travel?” – damn right. “Visit Moscow” – you got my interest. “We have jobs everywhere” – awesome! Wait, what’s that note about mafia? Mafia Wars? Is that where the jobs are? Is Russian mafia recruiting me through Facebook?

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

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Today I finished reading “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware” by Andy Hunt. Let me start by saying, that I’m really glad I picked up and finished this book right before the New Year. Why? It’s a checklist I’m putting on my New Years resolutions. The book starts out by describing the differences between… Read more »

Water

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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. –The Rime of the Ancient Mariner      

Using NGINX as load balancer for TYPO3

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Nginx has emerged as one of the popular webservers to run the TYPO3 framework. Advantages to using Nginx are that it is lightweight, fast, and reliable – unlike Apache, which has a much bigger footprint in terms of resources. Nginx is frequently set up to handle static files or cached pages (thanks to its memcached… Read more »