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• IPC 2008 wrapup and slides (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:33:55 +0100

  The annual family party (aka International PHP Conference) took place a week ago. As usual I enjoyed it much, although I was a bit sick this year. The new location (the "Rheingoldhalle" in Mainz) is really great, but I had the feeling it was a little bit too large. Professional equipment was available and they had 4 large rooms, as well as some smaller ones, for talks. Even the food was very good, which was not the case for the past 2 years in Mörfelden (Frankfurt).

• Status update and IPC (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:33:55 +0100

  So, finally I'm blogging again. I was quite busy with learning for my university exams in the past weeks, which turned out to be a good idea and was honored with best marks for both of them: "Logic based commonsense reasoning" and "Knowledge discovery in databases" (aka datamining). But that part would fit more into a private blog.

• FrOSCon 2008: Review of a marvelous conference (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:33:55 +0100

  To make it short: FrOSCon 2008 was as expected - fantastic. :)

• Beware, FrOSCon ahead! (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:33:55 +0100

  One of the most amazing German OS events is right in front of the door. Since the organizers of the FrOSCon expect a massive ammount of visitors, they ask everyone kindly to register on their website. If you did not do so, yet, take your heels and do so!

• eZ Conference: A technical view on eZ Components slides (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  I'll be giving a session on the technical aspects of eZ Components in about 20 minutes at the annual eZ Conference here in Skien, Norway. Here are my slides of this presentation for download. It also includes code examples for many new features in our most recent release 2008.1 (hot, just fron Tuesday). I'll write some more about that later.

• 6 essential PHP development tools slides from IPC/DLW (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  A little bit belated, but as promised during the session, I just uploaded my slides from the talk 6 essential PHP development tools in 60 minutes. Since there is so much to say I actually managed to get 4,5 tools through and for all of these it felt to be too few time. I think I should provide a workshop for the next conference

• eZ Components status slides from IPC/DLW (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  You can find my slides from The state of eZ Components online now. The talk was quite crowded and I hope to also have attract some new contributors.

• Database abstraction slides from IPC (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  I just uploaded my slides from the talk Database abstraction with eZ Components. Thanks to the attendees for being so active and even borrowing me a notebook and an USB stick, since the beamer disliked my Thinkpad! :) The slides are CC by (see last slide for details).

• Girl Geek Dinner right before IPC/DLW next week (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Next week the Dynamic Languages World conference (aka International PHP Conference Spring Edition) will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany. Nicole organized a Girl Geek Dinner right before the main events start (that means Monday evening). I really like the idea of Girl Geek Dinner, since it's a good attempt to raise the women rate on geek events, which is usually (sadly) extremly low. On the other hand I like to hang around, have some good meal, enjoy a beer and a good technical discussion. Therefore: +1 from my side for Girl Geek Dinner. :)

• Removed 1100 photos from Flickr (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:34:46 +0100

  After some heavy discussions with Kore and others I researched about German law in respect to individual rights on photos yesterday. Thanks to Arne, who gave me a good starting point (German) for my research. In the end, Kore was mostly right with his interpretation, what made me remove about 1100 photos from my Flickr gallery. All of those showing people dedicatedly where I do not feel to have the explicit permission to publish their pictures. I'll try to explain the reasons, my personal issues and possibly solutions in this article.