Acqal Experts Blog About TYPO3 and Other Hot Topics

Acqal is Going Through Some Changes

By: Nicole Johnson

Most of you have now heard that Acqal’s CEO, Michael Cannon, decided to resign his position with Acqal at the end of February. Michael left in order to start a family and to make career changes. We wish him the best of luck. With that said, Virgil Huston and I have been moving forward in beefing up the Acqal team. We’re very excited by the changes and the upcoming growth.

Acqal has added a team of six TYPO3 gurus that will be assisting us with support items as well as projects. We’ve also added a Senior Technical Advisor, Ries van Twisk. Ries will be working with us on those projects that...

Acqal Promotes Biking and Families with World Vision

By: Michael Cannon

Acqal continues to promote helping others and having a little fun with a recent charity contribution to World Vision for 10 bicycle loans. This donation enables families to be loaned the funds to purchase a bicycle and every 6-months another family will be able to do the same. The simple addition of a bicycle to impoverished farm families allows them to move more goods safely and quickly between home and market. This positively influences their health and helps them make their labors more efficient.

From World Vision:

Give a bike loan and help 10 families out of poverty. Your gift of a...

It's Official T3CON10-Dallas Web Site Launched! Join Us!

By: Virgil Huston

As one of the organizers of the conference, there will be more original posts from me on the plans and events for T3CON10-Dallas, but for now, here is the official announcement. I hope to meet as many of you there as possible!We invite you to T3CON10-Dallas, the 2nd annual North American TYPO3 conference on May 20-22nd. This will be a great time to learn more about the powerful system we use everyday and to connect with other developers and TYPO3 users from both North America, Europe and around the world. Several internationally-known leaders of the TYPO3 community will be attending and...

TYPO3 in 2010, Join the TYPO3 Association and Get Involved

By: Virgil Huston

Despite rough economic times all over the world, TYPO3 made great strides in 2009 and the future looks good for both TYPO3 4.4 and TYPO3 5. We at Acqal had a good year and TYPO3 continues to increase its market share in the US, although we all would like to see that move a lot quicker.2009 saw the first TYPO3CON outside of Germany. Held in Dallas, it was well attended and was a great start to bigger things to come. T3CON10 in Frankfurt was the best T3CON yet and it looks like settling on Frankfurt as the venue was a great idea, as Frankfurt is centralized and easy to get to from both Europe...

TYPO3 Association Quarterly Report 2009-12-14

By: Michael Cannon

From Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:00 email `[t3a-members] Quarterly Report`

--------------------------------------------------TYPO3 Association Quarterly Report --------------------------------------------------Dear Supporters of the TYPO3 Association, Further down I send you the link for downloading the Quarterly Report of the TYPO3 Association.The most important event in the last quarter has been the very successful T3CON09. The financial success of the conference exceeded all expectations and therefore resolved a budget shortage. Additionally these additional funds allowed us to support...

TYPO3, Marketing and the English Language

By: Virgil Huston

Sometimes coming up with a blog post topic can be hard, so this week, some odds and ends that are of interest and some things that keep rolling around in my mind.TYPO3, Marketing and the English LanguageI live in the US and use the US version of Google for searching. One thing I did while trying to come up with a blog topic, was run a search for TYPO3 on Google News. Wow, one would have thought I was using news.google.de. Out of the first 5 pages of news results (50 results), only 2 were English (one of them irrelevant as far as TYPO3 is concerned, the other a press release), the rest were...

TYPO3 Workbench and Clickity, clack, click

By: Michael Cannon

TYPO3 Workbench

Have you ever wondered if you can more easily access and search TYPO3 manuals from within Firefox? If so, you need to check out TYPO3 Workbench, a Firefox add-on.

You can use TYPO3 Workbench for quicker access to TYPO3 backends, bookmarked TYPO3 projects, TSREF and TSConfig document quick links, and searching of the TYPO3 Extension Repository and search forums on TYPO3.org.

Internet Poetry

Now for a little fun. Just after the T3CON09 Frankfurt keynote by Kasper, I was inspired to write.

clickity, clack, click there's coding afoot architecture to tackle web visitors...

Zenhabits: 8 Ways Doing Less Can Transform Your Work & Life

By: Michael Cannon

I’m a busy guy, living in a busy society and like you, constantly distracted by activities that want more of us than what we’ve got to give. A major goal of my moving to Taiwan was to focus on family life and Acqal success. For the most part, it’s worked.

I’d like to recap Zenhabits 8 ways of getting more out of work & life by describing how I’ve integrated them into my life. Hopefully, they’ll spark inspiration in you that can lead to more time to do what you want and happier clients as well.

1. Less hectic, busy schedule, less stress, more peace. Doing less leaves free to schedule...

Reflections on T3CON09 Part 2

By: Virgil Huston

T3CON09 officially started on Thursday morning with the tutorial sessions. I was torn between Ron Hall's "A Framework for TemplaVoila" and Riona Kuthe / Jochen Weiland's "How to customize the TYPO3 Backend for the needs of each editor." I ended up in Ron's tutorial and it was fantastic. Check out his TV framework at templavoila.busynoggin.com/.Here is how Ron explains it:"TemplaVoila is the most powerful of the TYPO3 templating methods. With this templating extension an experienced developer can produce sites with very flexible layout options for the content...

Reflections on T3CON09 Part 1

By: Virgil Huston

I know we promised to blog and Tweet during our trip to Frankfurt, but I never got around to doing a blog, we just had too much to do and were having too much fun. I did do a lot of tweets and uploaded pics to Flickr and my Facebook account.

Flickr

Sitting on the plane, just passing Iceland and headed in the direction of Greenland, wearing my T3CON09 t-shirt (nice green with skyline of Frankfurt), I have some time to write about the past week. I am not as comfortable as I could be because my TYPO3 pillow is in my checked baggage. There was some cool swag this year. Speakers got a toaster...