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 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...

Acqal donates to Give Us Wings

By: Nicole Johnson

With the inception of Acqal Corporation the executive team decided that even given the tough economic times, and the challenges of starting a business in the midst, it was important for us to give back. We assign a percentage of our profits to quarterly charity donations.

In the first quarter of the year Acqal donated to a local charity near our Augusta, SC office – Le Chat Noir. You can read more about this donation through Virgil Huston’s blog.

In the second quarter of this year we decided to donate to a charity local to our Minneapolis, MN office. Making a charity selection was equally...

37% Off Annual TYPO3 Hosting Plans at Acqal During September

By: Michael Cannon

There's a birthday at Acqal.

CEO Michael is getting older and moving ever closer to retirement. Help fund his sailboat account and get yourself 37% off annual TYPO3 hosting plans.

Use code MLCBDAY37.

Hurry, there's only 37 coupons available and the offer ends at midnight Eastern on September 30, 2009.

Look here for available plans. Let us know if you don't see what you need.

Automatic tt_news META descriptions via Acqal's extension aqnewsmeta

By: Michael Cannon

Acqal is pleased to announce the version 1.0.0 release of aqnewsmeta. This extension updates the TYPO3 newsSubheader register with a truncated, HTML-free version of the news bodytext if no article teaser is available.This is helpful for SEO purposes where each news entry should have a META description, but doesn't.

The extension includes options to adjust the META description length, currently set at 150 characters, per SEO best practices.

References

aqnewsmeta on TER

TYPO3, comments and Gravatar via Acqal's extension comments_gravatar

By: Michael Cannon

Acqal is pleased to announce the version 1.0.0 release of comments_gravatar. A TYPO3 extension which easily adds the showing of Gravatar icons to comments.

If you have a Gravatar icon, post a comment to this entry or any other entry of Acqal Blogging to see it show up.

If you don't have a Gravatar icon, visit Gravatar in References.

The extension includes options to turn off the Gravatars and adjust icon sizing, besides others.

References

comments_gravatar on TERGravatar - Globally Recognized Avatar

Acqal's TYPO3 Clients Protected Within 8 Hours of Security Notice

By: Michael Cannon

Within 8-hours of TYPO3 Security Bulletin TYPO3-SA-2009-002 being released, Acqal's team had their active client TYPO3 systems updated. Did your TYPO3 CMS provider do the same?

The security bulletin contained a critical fix to an 

Information Disclosure vulnerability in jumpUrl mechanism, used to track access on web pages and provided files, allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files on a host.

The expected value of a mandatory hash secret, intended to invalidate such requests, is exposed to remote users allowing them to bypass access control by providing...

What's a TYPO3? - TYPO3 Content Management System (CMS)

By: Michael Cannon and Sergey Lesnikov

What's a CMS?

CMS is short for Content Management System. This system allows non-technical users to make changes to websites with little or no training. Using a graphical user interface, authors can easily and simply create and edit pages, create and edit content, insert images and multimedia files, schedule content delivery, moderate visitor comments, and much, much more. All these traits combine to deliver a truly dynamic website. A top-quality CMS requires an experienced company to install and customize it, but daily management is geared to non-technical administrators.

Editing content...