8th European TYPO3 & FLOW3 Conference T3CON12 in FILDERHALLE near Stuttgart, Germany
04 OCTOBER – 06 OCTOBER 2012

Arrived on Friday. Skipped the first day :( CPH-FRA-STR nice 4 hours flight. If you have transfer in Frankfurt try MoschMosch. Great soup!

There was a great selection of sessions. It was hard to decide where to go. Here is my track record:

• Keynote: A New CMS (Robert Lemke) (Room: großer Saal)
• Automate FLOW3 and TYPO3 Deployment with Surf (Tobias Liebig)
• EmberJS Introduction (Tom Dale)
• Delivering a TYPO3 Project into the Enterprise (Robert Weißgräber)
• Travis-CI – social continuous integration (Lukas Kahwe Smith)
• TYPO3 6.0 – Back to the Future (Helmut Hummel)
• Sencha Touch meets TYPO3 (Nils Dehl)
• Future Proof Development (Jeff Segars)
• Testing FLOW3 and Phoenix (Rens Admiraal)

And of course great discussions between and after the events.

Here is the flashback

Keynote

Now TYPO3 is a BIG family. NEOS, FLOW, CMS, SURF. This is a much clearer message to customers and helps a lot with communication.

Another nice move is that the community opens up for more collaboration with projects, like:

Symfony, The Midgard Project, Ember.js, Travis CI, Packagist, etc…

SURF

Yet another deployment framework. Phing, Ant, rake, pake, etc…
It is in early stage, lots of promises. I wish the best for them. The bigest news here is the extension-coreapi. Automation now possible for TYPO3. (There is also a TYPO3 console project.)

ember.js

Great and inspiring presentation from @tomdale about ember.js and javascript web applications. Here are some other javascript application frameworks: backbone.js, angular.js and more libraries require.js, create.js.

TYPO3 6.0 (TYPO3 CMS)

The next version of the TYPO3 CMS. It was good to hear that the commitment is strong on supporting the “classic” product line. Looking forward of the release at the end of November.  The version 6.1 will be the real hit for conservative adopters. You can follow the release timeline here.

Future proof development

With the two other connected sessions (Travis CI and the Test session) you got a full overview with best prectices on the topic. The message : Write test first!, Run the tests continuously! Oh and here is promising javascript test framework buster.js

Sencha Touch

Hmmm… Not convinced, JQuery Mobile still in my focus

final words

I skipped @christianjul‘s talk about package management, but TYPO3 uses composer and  it is on packagist.org now!

You can watch all the presentation on youtube

The next TYPO3 conference will be at San Francisco May 30-31, 2013

Thank you for the great event and organization! Live long and prosper