Acqal Experts Blog About TYPO3 and Other Hot Topics

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...

Poem: TYPO3 is of the community

By: Michael Cannon

TYPO3 is of the community and for the community. Together we succeed, apart we fail. With another year comes, us together in Frankfurt to join and raise a glass for a cheer. To new friends, new sites and new techniques. At the close, we go a little sad, a bit tired, but fuller of hope to a brighter future of more friends and growing success. – 9/11/2009 – Thinking about TYPO3’s future during the T3CON09 Frankfurt keynote.

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.

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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...

Register for T3CON09 today!

By: Michael Cannon

The International TYPO3 Conference T3CON09 offers you the opportunity to meet the worlds best TYPO3 specialists and learn about new and innovative ideas around TYPO3.

TYPO3 Teaserbar and T3CON09

By: Virgil Huston

I love my new HP Mini and wrote this blog entry in a text editor using it. When I was done, I set the mini down and the battery decided to fall out. Not good. I get to now rewrite my entry. At least this isn't as bad as losing an entire research paper when I was in grad school. I think I might save as I go this time :-)

Acqal Exec Team Going to T3CON09

We are excited that the Acqal Executive Team will all be at T3CON09 in Frankfurt, for a variety of reasons. First is the conference itself, including tutorial day. The amount that may be learned is amazing and hard to describe. This year,...

Netbooks and Productivity

By: Virgil Huston

The reason I didn't get my usual blog posting out yesterday is because I was doing client work and then got preoccupied with getting my new HP Mini 1000 netbook up and running. This is one sweet little machine.My laptop has seen better days and is still quite useful, but not for toting around. For travel, I had a Verizon USB wireless card that was eligible for an upgrade. When I saw the deal on the HP Mini I jumped on it. Standard Verizon price for the mini with a two year contract ($59.95/mo for 5GB transfer, same as I was paying for the USB card) is $ 199. With the upgrade eligibility, it...

Random Thoughts: T3CON09, Lodging Woes, Germany, and TYPO3 Training

By: Virgil Huston

I am really looking forward to T3CON09. I get to see European friends and meet more, learn more and more about TYPO3, and I have an excuse to go to Germany. I love Europe, I would live there if it were practical. Hopefully, at least I will be able to retire there,Back in the day, I spent five years in Germany, in a small village called Merzalben, not far from Pirmasens, where I worked while a soldier in the US Army. We were 15 minutes from an unguarded border crossing to France, so also went there often (that was before the open borders).I was the only American in Merzalben, I was not one of...

Getting Overwhelmed? Duck Out for a Bit!

By: Michael Cannon

The past two weeks got too heavy for me, so I took a much needed break. More of a personal read than business.

My Experience at the TYPO3 Conference in Dallas (T3CON09)

By: Nicole Johnson

First off let me set the tone for my experiences by saying that the TYPO3 world is still relatively new to me. Since the opening of Acqal in October of 2008 I’ve only just begun to delve into TYPO3. I’ve been working with Acqal’s CEO, Michael Cannon, for about four years, but my experience with him was to design templates, HTML and CSS, outside of TYPO3. Michael would take my work and handle the template installation. I would handle tweaking the styles afterwards. It’s only now that I’ve begun to work a bit with TemplaVoila and templating inside TYPO3.

That being said, there’s been a bit of...