"TYPO3 developer days" event, 2009 edition starts next week on Thursday. I will make two talks there:

– How to become a better programmer (Thursday, 15:15—16:15)

– Writing secure code (Saturday, 16:30—17:30)

The first talk is...

TYPO3 SEO becomes a hot topic. I covered several TYPO3 SEO topics on this blog. This time I want to share a link to Google's SEO paper that I accidentally found while checking a Google Webmaster central for the customer.

In this document Google shares tips about optimizing your pages. These are official recommendations. It means that are not only safe to use but also highly recommended for every web site. As a side note: I was happy to find that I use almost everything from this paper on this site.

The paper is very useful for anybody...

I like TypoScript! It is a fantastic language. Almost everything is possible. For example, today I had to solve an interesting task. I have to show keywords on the page. Keywords shouls be taken from the page's "Keywords" field and appended by the content of a TypoScript constant. Any of these too could be empty and there should be no extra comma if one of parts is missing. If no keywords are set, there should be no keywords meta on the page.

Here is how I solved it...

I have problems with Google Analytics. Looks like something is broken there.

I am checking a number of visitors on one site. I took yesterday (May 5, 2009) as a day to look at. The graph shows a different number of visitors for the same day depending on the start day of the graph! Have a look...

This is a revew of a book named "Magento: Beginner's Guide" by William Rice. If you are interested in building e–commerce solutions, consider buying this book! Read the review for details.

cHash is one of the most mysterious and misunderstood parameters in TYPO3. There are several articles about cHash on the web (including my own) but it still remains a mystery.

cHash is important for proper caching in TYPO3. Therefore I decided to write when you need it and when not.

There is a new web site dedicated to the TYPO3 security. It is created and managed by Marcus Krause, who is the most active TYPO3 security team member. Marcus is known for his strong position about security, his dedication to this work and attention to details.

I highly recommend this new site to anyone who is interested in TYPO3 security.