Tobias Schlitt - a passion for php

On November 20th dynamic-webpages.de will start with the first "Professional PHP" online training. This series of online sessions offers you "24 hours of PHP knowledge, from professionals, to professionals". Topics covered in this series of talks are:

• Object orientation and patterns
• Regular Expressions
• Object-Relational-Mapping
• Security
• XML and Webservices
• Testing with PHPUnit
• AJAX and PHP
• Debugging using Xdebug
• Image manipulation
• PEAR
• Zend Framework
• eZ Components

Several speakers will take care about the different topics, among those are Kore Nordmann (Regex, Images and PHPUnit), Christian Wenz (Security, XML, Webservices), Stephan Schmidt for the OO and patterns section and other community known experts. I myself will present the topics "Xdebug" and "eZ Components".

All talks will last about 2 hours (possibly a bit longer) and will take place on a dedicated day so you are not too filled up with knowledge afterwards. The sessions are presented in German language using a professional online training system, that allows you to interact with the presenter and other attendees in writing and speaking.

Since it is the first time this course is scheduled, you will receive a 200,- € discount when booking right now, so take your heels and jump over to the dynamic-webpages.de training and certification page and save your seat!

Update 2006-08-17:

I forgot that Wolfgang and me moved the dates for the sessions, because Wolfgang is on vacation and wants to take part in the sessions. Sorry for that! So, here are the correct dates:

After the highly successful first online session about eZ components, which I made in cooperation with dynamic-webpages.de, we decided to set up another one. Even better: This time we will have 2 sessions and both for free. As last time, the first session "eZ components I" will give a general introduction to our enterprise PHP library and will guide you to the usage of eZ components. You will learn all necessary basics to get started with eZ components supported development and get to know some interessting components, based on a simple example application. The seconde (new) session "eZ components II" will get into more detail on 2 important components, which are not covered in the first session: eZ Template and eZ Mail. I consider those as 2 of our most important and impressive components, so this looks very promissing. Beside that, the 2nd session will cover more components, that are not shown in the first part.

Since dynamic-webpages.de is a German website, the sessions will again be in German language. If you are interessted, you can simply register for taking part on dynamic-webpages.de and join us. It would be quite cool, to offer those sessions to an international audience, too. So, if you provide online seminars in a similar way, feel free to contact me about this!

Thanks a lot to dynamic-webpages.de for sponsoring the equipment and bandwidth again and to eZ systems for sponsoring my efforts!

I just finished my online session about our enterprise PHP 5 library eZ components, which was sponsored by dynamic-webpages.de and eZ systems. The talk went really good and more than 20 attendees followed my words around the general design of enterprise eZ components and my source code browsing session through our Gallery example application. I really had the feeling, that everyone was quite impressed and very satisfied with the session, at least I was.

So far Wolfgang and me already had a small chat regarding part 2 of this great event, which will probably deal with more components, especially Mail and Template. If possible, we plan to make it available for free again. So far, thanks to Wolfgang for initiating this all!

Have a nice weekend! :)

I'll be giving a free online session about our enterprise PHP library in cooperation with dynamic-webpages.de on May 26th, 15:00-16:30. The session will give an overview about the eZ components architecture, as well as practical usage examples. I would love to meet you online then. :) Thanks to Wolfgang Drews from dynamic-webpages.de for providing this session!

Find detailed information here.

As Derick already wrote, we release the first RC of our new product eZ components yesterday. Beside the unification of the API, we enhanced several components with additional features and refactored smaller parts here and there since Beta2. I feel highly satisfied about how our work evolved in the past 6 month.

Now it's time to get you finally involved. Therefore, I will give a 2 day workshop on the eZ components on March 6th-7th (6 hrs per day) in our office in Dortmund. The training will give you an overview on the architecture of the eZ components and will dig into most of the exciting components in depth by showing practical examples. You will see how you can perform everyday development tasks very efficient and will learn how to use the neat interface we thought out.

Topics covered of this workshop will be (among others):

• Database abstraction
• Caching
• Image manipulation
• File handling
• Email

and much more...

I can highly recommend this workshop to everyone involved with PHP based development to get an overview on what we did in the past half year and to see how your development can benefit from this. After the workshop you will be able to directly enter highly efficient development using the eZ components.

For more information refer to our announcement of the workshop

• in English language
• in German language.

Take your heels, time is running out to register for the world first PEAR Online Seminar and to learn everything about PEAR in 6 weeks....

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You're developing large PHP applications every day? Your applications are growing fast? You always have low time and budget for your projects? Your PHP based product needs some new nice feature which would take long to implement? You're often developing PHP applications with "rapid prototyping"?

Then you should definitly learn how to use PEAR, the PHP Extension and Appplication Repository!

This August you will get the chance to achieve this: From August the 16th until September the 27th there is an online workshop in German language powered by ThinkPHP and akademie.de, which will teach you everything you need to use the PEAR project for your applications.

The workshop duration is 6 weeks and it takes place completly in an online environment. Every week new class documents will be published for your personal learning and a weekly practical exersise will enable you to train your skills not only with dry theory. A workshop tutor (yes, that's me! *g*) will be available during the whole time to answer your questions and guide you through the workshop.

Topics we will cover are as follows:

• Using the PEAR infrastructure
  • How to get a working PEAR installation from scratch?
  • Problems during the installation.
  • Working with the PEAR installer.
  • Tipps and tricks for your daily work.
• Using PEAR packages
  • Dig into a variaty of packages, e.g. Cache, DB, Log, QuickForm, Image_Graph and many more.
  • Create example applications with them
  • Tipps and tricks for usage and combination
• Distribute your own packages
  • How to create your own PEAR packages?
  • Ways to distribute these packages to your customers
  • An outlook on the upcoming new PEAR version 1.4

Does that sound interessting for you? Take your heels, run for the early bird discount at akademie.de and save up to 10% of your workshop fee!

Looking forward to seeing you! :)