During the last two days, I had the opportunity to participate in a meeting of a special type of TYPO3 users: German universities.
Thanks to generous sponsoring during this year's Bug Auction at T3BOARD, logging into typo3.org's sub-sites is now more comfortable.
I am a member of the official TYPO3 Server Administration team since the Developer Days this year. With this article I not only want to look back, but also share some insights in what we are / I am doing in this team.
There occur situations when your TYPO3 is awful slow and you have to figure out, why this is the case. Using a PHP profiler is the heavy hammer to gain the insights you need in this case.
Recently a security issue in TYPO3 has been fixed, where it was possible to circumvent checks, which should ensure file names to match specific patterns (e.g. denying .php file extensions to be uploaded or renamed to). As...