In the last weeks after finishing my diploma thesis, I had the pleasure to work on Aloha, more specifically Aloha Blocks.
Aloha Blocks are a technique to make non-editable content editable through Aloha. In TYPO3 Phoenix we use it to implement nested content elements, but we might also use it lateron for implementing links.
I’ve been working mainly on implementing:
* Drag and Drop
* Cut/Copy/Paste
* Deletion
* API cleanup
* general stability
… And all this in the major browsers starting from IE7.
The code is almost ready for merging!
It has been a lot of fun to work with Clemens from Gentics, who was my contact person during the time! I look forward to more of these projects.
Sebastian is a co-founder of Sandstorm Media and its chief Software Architekt.
He is a long-time member of the TYPO3 Project, particularily focussing on FLOW3 and TYPO3 Phoenix. He loves clean code, design patterns and agile methodologies, but tries to stay pragmatic at the same time.
He's also committed to making great technologies available to more people, that's why he is a member of the Extbase team and lead developer of the Fluid Template Engine.
You can generally find him on most of the TYPO3 events, where he's speaking about many of the topics which interest him. If you meet, make sure to say hello :-)
When he's not spending his workdays in front of the computer, he can be found climbing in the Saxon Swizerland.
