The event features the first ever TYPO3 Certification event in Romania, a good opportunity for developers to get certified by an official TYPO3 examiner from the TYPO3 Association.

Schedule

Location: Hotel Royal Classic (Str. Liviu Rebreanu nr.39)

Date: Saturday 03 December 2011

Start: 09.00

09.00 – 09.10 Opening by Daniel Homorodean

09.10 – 09.50 TypoGento (Andreea Radu and Cornelia Iclanzan)

TypoGento is a service that connects TYPO3 to the Magento e-commerce applicaton

09.50 – 10.30 Apache Solr in TYPO3 (Ioana Cucuruzan)

This is the search engine you were looking for with special features such as faceted Search or Synonym Support, and incredibly fast response times of results within milliseconds.

The presentation is build around a working example of Apache Solr implemented within a Typo3 project.

10.30 – 11.10 Mobile Versions for TYPO3 websites (Calin Borz)

Implementing mobile versions for TYPO3 websites using TemplaVoila

11.10 – 11.40 Coffee break

11.40 – 12.20 Test Driven Development (Tiberiu Contiu)

TDD is a technique to approach software design bottom up along with zero regression. You write a test, you write the code to make it pass and then you refactor the code. The session shows an overview of TDD and talks about usefulness of implementing TDD as a standard in your team.

12.20 – 13.00 FLOW3 – reliable foundation for complex applications (Dan Homorodean and Horea Negru)

FLOW 3 responds to the need to have a full-stack PHP framework for creating complex applications that use advanced programming techniques and paradigms like Domain Driven Design, Dependency Injection, Aspect Oriented Programming. Fluid comes as a completion to this stack, being a powerful and extensible templating engine. The presentation describes the concepts and illustrates their implementation in FLOW3

13.00 – 13.40 – Introduction to Extbase programming (Bodor László)

Extbase offers a new way of building TYPO3 extensions for TYPO3 v4.x, a completely object oriented and a modern MVC approach that opens the path for the upcoming TYPO3 v.5 and FLOW3

13.40 – 14.30 – Open discussions

14.30 – 16.00 – Lunch break

16.00 – 18.00 TYPO3 Certification Exam

Those who didn’t register yet can still do it by sending an email to bodor [at] arxia [dot] com

We have a limited number of places left so we will give them away in order of receiving your registration emails

Hope to see you on saturday!

Please note!
The sessions will be held in romanian language.

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Some of the presentations will be in Romanian, some of them will be in English. The full list of presentations will be announced at a later date and those interested in making a presentation are required to send an email to bodor@arxia.com until the evening of 23 November 2011.

This Meetup will be also the first time that a TYPO3 Certification event takes place in Romania. The Certification Exam will be held at the event location at 14.00 hours by the official certification team of the TYPO3 Association. For more information on how can you take the exam head over to the certification website.

Where ?

The meetup and the certification will be held at the conference hall of the Royal Classic Hotel (str. Liviu Rebreanu nr.39 – Cluj Napoca, Romania). The starting hour is set at 09.00 though it can still be modified if needed.

Want to participate ?

You can attend for free but you still need to send an email because the number of seats is limited!

To participate in this meetup please send an email to bodor@arxia.com If you want to take the certification exam then please head over to the certification website and register there for the certification.

For more information on this meetup you can contact me, and i will be glad to offer you more details on any question you might have.

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I know its really last minute but, If someone lives near by and want to come then please sign up here.

Location: Bistro Viena
Time: 20.00 LOCAL TIME
Organizer: TYPO3 Usergroup Romania

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Here is the final schedule:

Location: Hotel Vila Rosa, str. Frunzisului nr.4, Cluj Napoca

Date: Saturday 04.12.2010

Start: 10.00

09.45 – 10.10 Registration
10.10 – 10.20 Opening speech
10.20 – 10.50 Caching in TYPO3 – presented by Alina Fleşer
10.50 – 11.20 Styled menus in TYPO3 – presented by Adrian Moţ
11.20 – 11.50 TemplaVoila Framework – presented by Bodor László
11.50 – 12.05 Coffee Break
12.05 – 12.35 TYPO3 Distributions – presented by Bodor László
12.35 – 13.05 IRRE (Inline Relational Record Editing) – presented by Alina Fleşer
13.05 – 13.35 TYPO3 Usergroup Romania – open discussions
13.35 – 14.30 Lunch
from 14.30 open discussions if there is interest

Those who didn’t register yet can still do it by sending an email to bodor [at] arxia [dot] com

We have a limited number of places left so we will give them away in order of receiving your registration emails

Hope to see you on saturday!

Sponsor of the event : Arxia (http://www.arxia.com)

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2. TYPO3 Usergroup Romania Meetup 2011–schedule
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The list of presentations is not final yet so i’m not publishing it yet, anyone interesed to present something should send me an email to bodor [at] arxia [dot] com with the title of the presentation and a short description of it.

We will announce the final list of sessions on the 30th of november 2010. Also among other things we will discuss the opportunity and need of organizing a TYPO3 certification event in Romania next year.

Where ?

The event will take place in Cluj Napoca at the Vila Rosa hotel (Frunzisului street, 4) from 10 AM, on the 4th of December 2010.

Registration

Registration is free but mandatory. You need to send an email to bodor [at] arxia [dot] com if you want to participate.

Also please note that this event will be held in Romanian language!

Main sponsor: Arxia

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The event started friday evening with a social gathering at Club Porto Arte in Timisoara where we had a few beers and get to know each other. Saturday morning the first romanian DrupalCamp started with the opening session by Claudiu Cristea (president of Drupal Romania Association). I will make a short recap of all the sessions and my opinion on them:

• OpenMap – OpenLayers and Drupal – presented by Mihai Fratu. It could have been a good presentation but i think it should have been more thorough. Still it was an interesting – especially because i’m interested in mapping applications of all kinds.
• Eat your own dog food! Why you should use Open Atrium to manage your projects – presented by Kristof Van Tomme. I already saw this presentation at DrupalCamp Prague so it didn’t bring much novelty but i think it was a little bit different then the Prague presentation although i’m not sure.  Kristof is one of the participants who knows how to make a presentation and how to focus the audience’s attention.
• Building a Drupal module with Flex – presented by Mihai Corlan (platform evangelist at Adobe). It was one of the most controversial presentations with many, many questions. Obviously everyone came up with the regular questions: will HTML5 kill Flash,  why Flash doesn’t run on the iPhone and such. But Mihai replied very well and made a good impression.
• The Agile Road – presented by Maria Diaconu and Alexandru Bolboaca. I expected more from this presentation. It was in myy opinion  superficial and touched only generalities.
• Drupal for Higher Education and Virtual Learning – presented by Gabriel Dragomir. This was among the few things that were unknown to me and i learned about them in this DrupalCamp. Its quite interesting that Drupal became a tool in all kinds of areas, including academic insitutions and research.
• Come for the software, stay for the community – how Drupal improves and evolves – presented by Gábor Hojtsy. This is a presentation that in some form or another i’ve remember seeing in Prague but not under this name. Its the usual community building and Drupal promoting presentation  (as Gábor put it: making noise about what you do).
• Drupal Search on steroids using Apache Solr  -  presented by Andrei Savu. This was too short of a presentation for such a good and interesting subject. I guess it could have been made a little bit more comprehensive and interesting.
• Publish and Subscribe – presented by Alexandru Badiu. It was an interesting presentation. I was somewhat familiar with the concept but the author managed to enlighten me even more.

These were the presentations from the first day. In the evening people went to Club Porto Arte were a folk band entertained the drupelers and of course many beers were consumed. The second day’s presentations were:

• Using Features – presented by Alexandru Badiu. Features was the most useful presentation for people working with constant changes on multiple servers (development – staging – live). And i think the presentation made a good case for using Features in every circumstance that requires such constant changes.
• Tips and tricks for building Entreprise / Large web applications with Drupal – presented by Mihai Ceusan and one more guy (unfortunately i can’t remember the name and he isn’t in the schedule). This presentation was the one i expected the most. It was somewhat useful but i expected more from this one too. They presented their problems with deploying and changing a very high number of sites. I was expecting tips&tricks on how to fine tune a Drupal site to work under very heavy load.
• What’s up with Drupal 7 – presented by Gábor Hojtsy. I saw this one too at Prague. I guess for people not familiar with Drupal 7 features it was quite interesting. Gábor is a good presenter and knows how to make people interested in something – in this case Drupal 7
• DBTNG – presented by Tamás Demeter (unfortunately i missed this presentation due to objective reasons)
• Ubercart-powered online concept store – presented by Vlad Socaciu. Ubercart is the solution for powering online stores in Drupal. The author tried to present  the features of this great module but there were some minor technical glitches that prevented viewers to see the screen in good conditions. But still it was useful.
• Drupal distributed architecture: the stuff that clouds are made off – presented by Kristof Van Tomme.  Clouds are the buzzword of our era. Everyone wants in the cloud and as sites get bigger and bigger Drupal is heading into the cloud as well. Kristof’s presentation explained some of the notions involved and showed how Drupal can work in distributed environments.

There were two more presentations one about Building more active (euro) regional communities (by Radu Ticiu) and See you in Copenhagen but we had to leave for home as a long journey expected us.

Overall it was a good event, with lots of fun and lots of Drupal,  also Timisoara is a great city so it certainly was a good experience.

Related posts:

1. At DrupalCamp Timisoara
2. Back from DrupalCamp Prague
3. DrupalCamp.ro schedule published

Also you can stay updated by following my twitter account http://twitter.com/lacisoft or the official hashtag for DrupalCamp http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23drupalro

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See you in Timisoara this weekend!

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For more information:

Tour dates: http://www.ironmaiden.com/index.php?categoryid=15

Announcement http://www.ironmaiden.com/index.php?categoryid=8&p2_articleid=1205

PS

This post is somewhat different from the regular topics i write about but i had to write about it. If there are any TYPO3 enthusiasts who like Iron Maiden i suggest you come to Cluj, to Transylvania  and we can get out to a beer after or before the concert.

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Here is the full announcement :

In our ongoing effort to popularize and promote TYPO3, we will be organizing  the second TYPO3 Garage in Cluj Napoca.  This is a workshop with the following topics:

- Powermail (presented by Diana Florescu)

- Introduction to TemplaVoila (presented by Bodor László)

- Web accessibility (presented by Kerekes József)

Where

At Arxia’s headquarters on Paraului Street 2B, Cluj Napoca, Romania. If you can’t find the place give us a call at 0733670659 and we will guide you.

When

On the 28th of April 2010, at 19.00 pm

Participation

Participation is free but let us know that you’re coming by dropping an email to alina.fleser[at]arxiagroup.com

Note

Please beware that all presentations will be held in romanian language.

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1. I will be presenting at TYPO3 Garage Cluj Napoca
2. Typo3 meeting Cluj Napoca
3. TYPO3 4.6 Release Party in Cluj Napoca