schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Tobias Schlitt :Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:48:14 +0100 :Copyright: CC by-nc-sa ================================= Blog - Open Source - schlitt.info ================================= - No Linuxtag for me this year :( I'm sad to say, that I won't be able to attend Linuxtag this year. :( I've been there for the past 2 years, maintaining the PEAR exhibition booth and giving several sessions. This year I'm much too packed with university to go there. Luckily Stefan Neufeind, a fellow PEAR developer, stepped in and took over my talk proposal "News from PEAR" for the Practical Linux forum, where Stefan will give a short introduction into the actual state of the PEAR project. Thanks, Stefan! - What AJAX is good for... I don't like AJAX really much. I think in most cases it's useless sweetness, that nobody needs in a web app (not to mention that all that Web2 ranting is completely ridiculous). Anyway, Tobias Struckmeier (a fellow eZ employee and user group mate) invited me to use Google Calendar a while ago. I did not try it out until now, but since I was searching for a good calendar application anyway, I just logged in (using my Gmail account) and played a bit with it. - PHPUGDO sponsered by PHP Solutions magazine The PHP Solutions magazine is now sponsoring the PHP Usergroup Dortmund. Thanks to Dariusz Pawlowski, we are receiving some examples of each issue for free now, to be used in the user group. During our meeting yesterday, I opened the first 2 envelopes and we already got 1 example of the past 3 issues, as well as 3 examples of the current issue. The magazine examples will be hosted by Tobias Struckmeier at the eZ Systems GmbH office, so every usergroupy is free to borrow one for some days from there. - The eZ Components tutorial online We finally got a tutorial about eZ components online. I wrote a little example application for that, which realizes a very basic image gallery on basis of the eZ components. It explains how to use a lot of our components in the real world, like Database, PersistentObject, ImageConversion, and some more. You can directly view it online and download it's source code here. Would be great to get some feedback on it! - eZ Components 1.1 on the horizon Yesterday we released eZ components version 1.1beta1, a first step to the next feature release of eZ components. The first release does not contain all enhancements, yet, so a 2nd beta will definitely follow. Beside that, the Template engine will be released in about a week, which is IMHO the most awaited component for 1.1. Several great enhancements are already included in 1.1beta1, like sub-select and multi-join support for the query builder in our Database component, parsing mails with the Mail component and automatic help text generation for the ConsoleTools. We also have 2 new components: File - which will provide convenience methods for dealing with files in PHP - and SystemInformation, which can be used to determine information about the underlying system, an application gets installed on. - Jakob's wireless config for Gentoo Since a few days Jakob Westhoff - a good friend, university and usergroup collegue of mine - has a blog. I convinced him to set one up, because he produces a lot of geeky things, which by now stayed on his harddisc. - PHP at FrOSCon - Call for papers! The FrOSCon (Free and open source conference) is an event organized by the faculty for Computer Science of the college of higher education Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (24./25. Juni 2006). The PHP usergroups Köln-Bonn and Dortmund will organize a PHP room under the hood of the FrOSCon. This will give all PHP enthusiasts a meeting place and allows us to have a special PHP talk track during the 2 day conference. - eZ Components in Dortmund My local PHP usergroup convinced me to repeat the eZ components introduction I gave in Frankfurt a wile ago. The session will take place on Thursday, April the 20th in the office of eZ systems GmbH. Start is 18:00 and it will take about 2-3 hrs. After that, you can ask questions, make me show more examples, try out eZ components and much more. Everyone is welcome to join us. The entrance is free. To better calculate the number of attendants, please inform us about your coming on our mailinglist. - Wise words Don't know who said that (tell me, if you know!) but it's true! - ICQ spam sucks Since 1996 I'm using ICQ as an instant messaging service. While I was satisfied with it all the time, I'm now getting into real trouble with ICQ spam. Blocking unwanted messages from users that are not on your buddy list is not a problem (at least in Gaim, although this tools seems to forget the privacy settings now and then). But lately I receive constant masses of authorization request spam. It's a real annoyance to get about 50-200 of these messages per day and to reject all of them manually. I would be really near to leaving the ICQ network, if there weren't so many of my non-geek friends on ICQ.