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Web 2.0

Everything related to the development of the internet in the web2.0 era and beyond

Web 2.0

The future according to Facebook

I’m back from the f8 conference in San Francisco, and here are some of my thoughts and observations. Facebook introduced some new ideas, and expanded the existing products. The big announcements were centered around the Open Graph. It …

TYPO3

Multimedia cookbook

My book is about to be released, and some promotional materials have been released into the open to help readers evaluate the type of material covered, and writing style. Here are the tutorials that have been released: TYPO3 …

TYPO3

Caching in extensions

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, …

Programming

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

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 …

TYPO3

Using NGINX as load balancer for TYPO3

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 …