Sebastian Nohn (alias the "Zauberpony") finally started blogging about PHP. Welcome to the Planet Sebastian! [Read full post…]
A week ago I released my PEAR package Services_Trackback with a new feature added: Support for checking trackbacks against the Akismet.com web service. Akismet is provided by wordpress.com and is the first attempt to centralize efforts against trackback and comment spam. Services_Trackback now supports checking trackbacks against Akismet and so does PEARWeb do, too. Beside that, PEAR developers have the chance to report trackbacks they recieved as spam to Akismet (in addition to deleting them from the database) and with that help to improve the Akismet service. So, let's see how this solution turns out... [Read full post…]
Derick wrote an article about eZ components for the latest issue of php|architect. It deals with the goals for the project as well as architectural decisions that we took while developing this components library. [Read full post…]
My friend Kore Nordmann (the developer of PEAR::Image_3D) finally managed to relaunch his private website. It now is in english language and also has a weblog integrated. Therefore: Welcome to the planet, Kore! :) [Read full post…]
It's so amazingly cool... I need THAT... Right here and right now!!! Which geek didn't like the interface from Minority Report? [Read full post…]
My friend Lukasz has used my PEAR::Services_Trackback package to create an eZ publish trackback extension. This enables you, to integrate trackback capabilities very easily into your eZ publish based weblog or your whole eZ publish based website. Read more here. [Read full post…]
My recent releases fix a lot of tiny bugs in my PEAR packages Services_Trackback and Net_FTP. [Read full post…]
I finally found some time and improved the trackback handling on PEARWeb: [Read full post…]
I'll be giving an overview on the eZ components at the PHP usergroup Frankfurt meeting on March 16th. If you want to get a life introduction, have questions or want to give feedback, feel invited to join this event! [Read full post…]
I just stumbled over this rumor. The article states, that Oracle is planning to take over up to 3 open source companies, including JBoss and Zend. Let's see, where this leads... [Read full post…]