Tag: Optimization

Software testing is most important and optimization of code is one of the craved destinations in programming. Tests need to be smart and fast, based on risk and change, as code is written. And it's always work in progress, a task to keep coming back to.

Testing TYPO3’s Core - Part III: Unit Tests

Units are the smallest testable parts of software. The workflow patterns we use for testing TYPO3´s core have evolved over time and unit testing became an integral part quite a few years ago. This was after experiencing rather strange issues when first integrating the scheduler into the core.

Testing TYPO3’s Core - Part II: On Hardware & Dockers

Developing a successful and strong software requires a decent development platform with specific hardware, third-party software and parallelization of jobs. An efficient communication between this setup and other parts of the system ensures that processes run smoothly and swiftly.

Testing TYPO3's Core - Part I: Infrastructure

Automatic testing is integrated into the process of developing TYPO's core. Every patch version that is pushed to the review system goes through a standard process and multiple verification ensures that the software conforms to requirements.

Yoast SEO for TYPO3 Launched

From now on, everybody using the TYPO3 CMS (version 7 or higher) gets assistance from Yoast to write readable content and optimize it for search engines.

Atlassian Bamboo Apache Struts Security Post Mortem

On Monday (March 6th, 2017), information about a Zero-Day Vulnerability Remote Code Execution (CVE-2017-5638) in Apache Struts actively exploited in the wild was made public and pretty quickly spread through the well known web channels.

Firefox AddOn: TYPO3 Workbench

The TYPO3 Workbench Plugin is an Firefox add-on that helps you to manage your TYPO3 Projects and offers you often needed information in the development process.

Cloudflare Optimizes Images With WebP

Several days ago Cloudflare announced on their blog that their image optimization engine "Polish" has been enhanced with a new feature that's enables recompressing images with the WebP format. To understand what this means, we need to understand what Cloudflare does in the first place.

How We Solve Our Password Madness

Storing passwords is easy - get a password manager and you're done. But how to share these passwords between your co-workers or maybe even external people? We know there is no such thing as "the right solution", but we though we'd share how we do it.