Yes it’s true, TYPO3 is not a regular CMS but rather an Enterprise CMS but for the majority of people its still a CMS and its being treated as such. One important reason why i do this again is that the data reflects not only the CMS market but the overall market of all websites monitored by W3Techs (the source of the data) and also for the breakdown of the different TYPO3 versions.

Let’s start with the overall market:

(source)

From this data we can see that 70.9% of the websites use no CMS at all (at least its not detectable that they’re using one). This number decreased from 75.9%. So the logical conclusion would be that more and more companies and people are using some kind of a CMS on their website (grey is the overall market share and green is market share from the CMS market)

There aren’t any spectacular changes in the market shares of the different CMS’s, that’s why a graph with yearly change is not showing anything relevant. TYPO3 stays at a steady 0.6% of overall market share and lost a little from the CMS pie (which grew since last year). So we can say that TYPO3 did neither gain or lost market share since one year ago on the global website market.

If we look at the major version distributions of TYPO3 we can see:

(source)

There are still 1.2% of websites using TYPO3 version 3.x. That’s quite alot! Even if its half of what we had last year. These people really have to consider upgrading because running a version this old is a great security risk (no patches are available if some security vulnerabilities are discovered). One thing to note that TYPO3 v5 didn’t yet made it to this statistic although it seems there are a few sites made with v5.

Let’s see how the 4.x versions are doing:

(source)

That’s an interesting change. One year ago version 4.2 was first with 38.6%, now version 4.5 leads with 35.9%. This version is a Long Time Support version and its understandable that people will tend to use it more. Also this is the last one with IE6 support – although IE6 is practically dead some companies still use it.Versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 lost about about half of their percentage while 4.4 is almost at the same share.

Version 4.6 also popped up on the radar with 1.6%. That’s a good number taking into account that is relatively young (few months) and also requires PHP 5.3 which is not a default offering on the majority of webhosts.

I suggest you take this data with a grain of salt. W3Techs monitor lots of sites but probably they also miss a few. These statistics are here just to make an idea of where TYPO3 is.

Overall i think that is evolving slowly even if it didn’t gain market share in the last year. Good things happened. Version 4.6 was released with lots of improvements and 4.7 is on our doorsteps with much improved usability.

Well, that’s it. I hope in about one year we have better numbers.

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So now i’m officially a Certified TYPO3 Integrator. I don’t yet have the certificate as it comes by regular mail, but the listing of certified integrators is updated and it seems i’m there (Bodor László – Romania)!

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I couldn’t write it better so i’m sharing the link and although its a long article, it is worth reading!

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I know this is quite a difficult task. Actually it is not that difficult to write the crawler, its much more difficult to scale after the number of domains start to grow in the database. But i like challenges.

So i started working on it and after a few hours a basic crawler was born. What it does is that it scans a website and tries to identify it if it is a TYPO3 website (based on the TYPO3 header comment). Then it extracts all distinct domains from the links and goes to the next domain.

The early data is available here: http://crawler.lacisoft.com/ The crawler is not very speedy because i limited its speed (i don’t want to kill my VPS). Also because of this i limited its scope to .ro domains (domains from Romania).

Another issue is that for now it counts a domain twice if it has both www and non-www version. Technically i could solve it to count only one but i’m not convinced that this would be the right step as theoretically www is a subdomain of the main domain and it is possible that the www and non-www versions house different websites. I will think more about it.

For now this is only an experiment, let’s see how it works out.

Later edit: The crawler is still scanning, the data is not final!

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Security is not a state that you can reach and stop worrying about. It is an ongoing process of constant improvement

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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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Other important changes include:

• a new proxy class building mechanism
• a new Doctrine2 based persistence layer
• improved command line support
• a new tutorial
• switch from DocBook to reStructured Text for the documentation\

Although the FLOW3 Team says that you could use FLOW3 for projects which have deadlines a couple of months ahead i would say that this FLOW3 release should be regarded as it is, namely a beta package, not ready for primetime use. It will be good for tinkering with it, testing stuff, getting things right and then when the final release will be available and we will have also some performance benchmarks, then we can think about using this in real life projects.

In order to download FLOW3 or read the full announcement click here

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But how you might ask. Well i’ve just discovered a nice intro tutorial on the TYPO3 Wiki about this. You can see it here. Beware that this is just the first article of the tutorial and probably there is more to come, so watch the wiki and the mailing lists.

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