With the Ash Wednesday crosses still on our foreheads, the TYPO3 community gathered once again at the offices of punkt.de. We were well-prepared and delighted by the enthusiastic response. The meeting’s popularity is growing, and with it, the number of participants. The talks were (for now) organized solely by the punkt.de —Ursula Klinger and Christiane Helmchen spoke about the, as always, very inspiring TYPO3 Camp Mitteldeutschland, and Florian Kaiser shared the punkt.de ’s experiences with the “deployer” tool, a “deployment tool for PHP.”
The event began at 6:00 p.m., and after a brief round of introductions, the topic turned to #t3cmd. TYPO3 version 10.3 is on the horizon, and following the presentation of TYPO3 10 at the last Developer Days in Karlsruhe, the LTS release is gradually becoming more usable. We’ve already had a chance to look at the most important changes. Ursula and Christiane agreed that there were many important improvements; among other things, IE11 is no longer supported in the Backend —certainly a sensible decision to move away from legacy systems, just as Microsoft has also announced. Furthermore, additional Symfony standards—such as dependency injection, event handling, and the expression language for conditions—are being integrated into TYPO3. There are also improvements to TYPO3’s front-end login, and menus can be built much more easily and with better performance using a new extension by Benny Mack.
After a short break, it was Florian’s turn to present. He gave an initial overview of Deployer and shared his experiences so far. One of the main advantages of Deployer is that you can define your own tasks more clearly than in other systems and then swap them out for existing ones. This is welcomed by everyone who knows that “standards” make sense, but that every standard needs to be adapted to fit their own work. In his live demo, Florian delved deep into the technical intricacies of Deployer. Since the pizza arrived a little late, Florian was able to make the most of every minute and explain even more topics. For those who found this brief overview went by too quickly, we recommend taking a look at the Deployer website.
As always, it was the mix that made the meetup special: specific TYPO3 topics combined with the “ punkt.de ” and insights into the tools we use in our TYPO3 projects. This allowed all participants to broaden their knowledge and take home many new ideas. The discussions over pizza and drinks after the official portion of the event were particularly inspiring. This allowed participants to clarify further questions and support one another with tips and tricks.
punkt.de is looking forward to even more participants at the next planned TYPO3 Meetup in Karlsruhe in May. We’ll let you know in plenty of time.
