TYPO3 Version 4.3 Released
BAAR, 2009-11-30Today the TYPO3 Association released the newest version of their outstandingly successful Open Source project TYPO3. TYPO3 has been downloaded over 4.1 million times – making it one of the world’s leading Enterprise Open Source projects.
The latest TYPO3 version 4.3 comes packed with numerous brand new features and improvements. Highlights include the completely new Frontend editing module and the integration of Extbase and Fluid. Additionally, TYPO3’s already excellent security features have been improved even further.
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Video Contest Extended!
The contest's deadline extended to the 4th december (UTC-8).
Remember, the winner of the contest wins a Flip Mino HD video camera, plus a one-year subscription to VideoPress!
Black Friday 20 hour 20% off sale now on!
In the US there are some strange traditions, and one of them is the day after Thanksgiving when people line up from 3 or 4 in the morning to be the first people in a store when it opens to get some item for a really good price. This is ostensibly to get a head start on Christmas shopping.
If you're interested to see the full offer, go there
Zorba with PHP
Zorba is an application which conforms to the standard XQuery processor. Now Zorba proposes an extension to PHP which it is provided with the API.
With this new extension, new features in PHP appear, like this developer and development can add sophisticated treatment of XQuery for applications PHP / XML.
Vikram Vaswani offers a tutorial for using this extension, including the following:
- Basic usage
- Treatment sequences
- Filtering and Sorting Data
- Manipulations
- Repos functions
- Json functions
Zorba official site
Zorba PHP tutorial
TYPO3 Hooks Tutorial
Some days ago I needed to extends tt_news for adding some required features.
While googling, I found this cute tutorial, using the extension wfqbe as exemple.
Helpful knowledge: You should know the basics of extension building (creating a new extension with the kickstarter should suffice), if you haven’t worked with wfqbe so far you should get to know the extension first. wfqbe requires some basic SQL skills.
If you need to learn more about hooks, then go read it here
Indexing content with PHP
Indexing the web content may be in different ways. Among other using PHP and Swish-E as a simple web-based system of human indexing.
With this technique, you will be able to perform efficient indexing related files as HTML, XML, PDF or DOC.
Vikram Vaswani shows as a tutorial, using this technique with the use of the PECL extension
Read how to do this
WordPress.com : New blog subscription
There are many ways of reading WordPress.com blogs and we’ve now added another: email subscriptions.
This is a very simple way for your readers to subscribe to your blog and receive updates by email. Anyone can subscribe, whether they have a WordPress.com account or not. All you need to do is add the Blog Subscription widget to your blog and then you and your readers are ready to go.
So. If you have a wp.com blog, run to it 
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GreenSQL
GreenSQL is Firewall application for SQL databases MySQL and PostgreSQL.
This API is distributed under GPL and will protect you from many types of attacks as:
- SQL Injection
- Cross-Site Scripting
- Cross-Site Requests Forgeries
Its operation is based on reverse-proxy mode, meaning that the SQL query will be forwarded to GreenSQL which will analyze and then pass it to MySQL if it is valid.
Different versions exist for running GreenSQL on many distributions: CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, RHEL 5, SLE 5, Opensuse, Ubuntu.
GreenSQL website
GreenSQL Performances test
GreenSQL demo page