Just from reading the subtitle of the book which is “Over 50 great recipes for effectively managing multimedia content to create an organized website in TYPO3″ I would never have guessed how advanced techniques this book shows. This book is definitely for the experienced TYPO3 user who already built some TYPO websites, has at least basic understanding of TypoScript, knowledge about PHP and basic knowledge about the TYPO3 Core API would also be good.  For some recipes from this book you definitely need more than a shared hosting account because you need to install some special applications.

In my opinion this book has more than kept its promises. You will learn much more than just organizing multimedia content. For example in one chapter you will learn how to work with externals services as Amazon S3 to organize your DAM files, the YouTube API to get videos or flickr to upload images.
The chapter I liked the most is about creating services with TYPO3. You will learn how to extract metadata from OpenOffice documents, how to convert videos to FLV or convert your audio files. Of course you need shell access to install some applications. The book only describes the procedure for Debian systems. If you are not familiar with the Linux shell you might get stuck here and ask Google for further information.
As I’m a big fan of automation I also liked the last chapter about automating processes which also covers geolocation support.

Overall I liked the book and can recommend it to developers who like to have a deeper look into TYPO3 and its possibilities to extend the basic system. I think it will be useful in the future for me to get some inspiration from the recipes or just grab some snippet. For some developers without Linux knowledge or limited access it might be hard to follow some steps.

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You can avoid this cache-pollution by specifying a range of valid values for your linkVars configuration. You can append the values in round brackets to your L-params. It’s also possible to use regular expressions here.

Example:

config {
linkVars = L(1-5), print(1)
}

Otherwise it can happen that TYPO3 puts malformed URLs in your cache and your clients will get mad.
You can find more examples in TSref at typo3.org.