Anyway...I start most of my days walking with my two dogs after having taken Daan and Sam, our kidz, to school. I live close to the forest's edge and what better way to start the day then with a refreshing walk. I spend my days alone in my 'office' and I definitely need to get out once in a while. Concentration only last so far. I recently also started going to the gym to work out. I can recommend anyone in our line of business, or any line of business, to work out one way or the other. Daily exercise can improve mood, executive function, decision-making and creativity and decrease anxiety and fear. 



After preparing my blogging activities I spent quite some time on an internal issue that affects the way we progress with our current TYPO3, our new PHP framework FLOW3 and our next-generation CMS that is currently being build on top of FLOW3. Developments there have been anxiously awaited for the last few years and concern everyone in the TYPO3 eco-system. Unfortunately I cannot go into details here, but what I try to achieve in such a situation is to get the basic information out of a complicated and long discussion and get things moving forward again. Not an easy task, but when things come together there is great reward so to speak.

14:00 is the regular time for our release team meeting. We have been doing this on an regular basis ever since regular releases where introduced. This week's meeting was attended by Oliver Hader (version 4 core development team leader), Xavier Perseguers (former release manager) and Steffen Ritter our current release manager. Oliver gave us a little update on the code sprint that was done this last weekend (actually November 17-20). Main topics of the code sprint where "Migration to ExtJS4", Logging, Indexed Search speed improvements, Accessibility / Improvements on the "Government Package" being produced for the sponsored BLE project and the File Abstraction Layer (FAL) & Image Gallery Extension based on the File Abstraction Layer. More info on the code sprint will be published tomorrow. Within the team we also dicussed some of the general issues ike mentioned in the previous paragraph. After the meeting Steffen and me discussed some mails he was going to send out to the subprojects (workspaces, Extbase and linkvalidator) and contributors of the current version. Some awareness needs to be raised developments for TYPO3 version 4.7 have started.

So the day kind of ends with the screen cast team meeting. Some good progress has been made with a first test run. Tom Warwick (UK) and Oliver Wand are in close contact for the first run and the team hopes to have something finalised next monday.

In between meetings a lot of current affairs have been going on which prevented me to work on the Community Report for October however. Let's see how far we get with that one tomorrow. Now it is off to the kitchen to make some nice pasta, visit my dad and finish the day in the gym with some kickbox fitness.