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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:14:52 +0200
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Welcome to the open source website of Tobias Schlitt and especially to the
blog. I'm publishing news and articles about the open source projects I'm
involved in and information about other open source projects here. A main
focus of this blog are projects around and implemented with the `PHP`__
programming language, as well as the language itself. But I'm also talking
about other OS software.

.. __: http://php.net

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necessarily reflect the opinion of any of my customers or companies I work
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- FrOSCon 2010 slides online

  I uploaded my slides about the Apache Zeta Document component to Slideshare.
  The talk was held yesterday in the PHP room at FrOSCon.

- Qafoo - software quality since 1886

  Of course not, but still, the building that hosts our office was built at
  that time. ;) However, this post should simply tell you that Qafoo, the
  company by Kore, Manuel and me, has started on July 1st officially and that
  our company website went online just some minutes ago. You can now find all
  of our services online, nicely presented in a fresh green. And of course,
  you can send us a message right away, if you desire training, consulting or
  support anyway related to PHP software quality.

- Arbit? Service please!

  It's only two weeks left, until Qafoo, the company by Kore, Manuel and me,
  will officially start. Time to reveal another topic of our service
  repertoire: Consulting, training, support and payed development for Arbit,
  your all round project tool of choice.

- Qafoo web design contest

  After the amazing success of our design contest for the Qafoo logo, Manuel,
  Kore and me decided to run another contest for our website layout. Since we
  were quite satisfied with 12designers.com as the platform, we went for that
  one again.

- Zeta mailinglists available

  The new mailinglists for the Zeta components have just been created in the
  Apache Incubator space. So, it's time to start switching to the new
  infrastructure.

- Twitter avatars in TwIRCd

  TwIRCd integrates Twitter with your IRC client by implementing an IRC
  server, mainly developed by Kore until now. During the past weekend, our
  unofficial PHPUGDO hackathon, I seized the chance to implement support for
  Twitter avatars for it. Pretty useless, but fun. ;)

- Qafoo got a logo

  It's been a while since I blogged about the company Kore, Manuel and me are
  currently founding: Qafoo. In the meantime we made a public contest for our
  logo. The contest ended on Monday and we today elected a winner. Here we go
  with the official logo for Qafoo - passion for software quality:

- Flattr me, I flattr you

  I found Flattr an amazing idea when I heard about it for the first time. Now
  I created my own account on the platform and you can flattr my blog posts. 
  What is this and why should you do it?

- We want your talks: PHP@FrOSCon 2010

  This years FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Conference) will be the fifth
  instance of this amazing event. As usual, the PHP Usergroup Dortmund, in
  cooperation with people from Cologne, organizes a PHP room with talks and
  hacking. If you've never been to FrOSCon, you should really seize the
  chance. If you have been to FrOSCon, yet, you know what you would be
  missing! :)The call for papers for the PHP room is still open until May
  23rd, so take your heels and propose some interesting talks for the PHP
  room.

- Qafoo - The PHP quality ninjas

  As announced earlier in this blog, Manuel, Kore and me are in the process of
  founding our own company. Now it's time to present the name we have thought
  out for this operation. We are Qafoo - The PHP quality ninjas. Isn't that
  cool? :) So, let me try to explain the origin of this name here. Feel
  invited to comment on our idea and to give us some inspiration.