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• More 3D fun with PHP (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:34:32 +0100

  Kore is again fiddling around with his PEAR package Image_3D... While implementing something new, he rendered the following "Zebra-Pig", which actually resulted from a bug. Anyway, the whole package is cool, and the pig looks quite funny! ;) Go on, Hardkore! [Read full post…]

• Welcome to the team, Sebastian (en)

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

  Sebastian finally signed his contract with eZ systems and will move to our headquarter in Skien - Norway - next month. He will write his diploma thesis there about the new work flow engine for eZ publish 4. I'm really happy to have Sebastian with us. Another member of the open source community in our middle. For that: Welcome on board, Sebastian! Have a lot of fun with the great guys in Skien! :) [Read full post…]

• Moving (en)

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

  No, not myself, but my server. Until now I ow a 1und1 Root Server L, which I bought more than 2 years ago. Now that 1und1 offers a new generation of servers, I decided to switch to a 64-bit machine. My old server had a Celeron processor, 256 MB RAM and 20 GB HD, which could not really handle my spam protection anymore. The new one is an Athlon 64 3000+, has 1 GB RAM and 2 80 GB SATA discs, which I run as a soft raid. [Read full post…]

• Hardkore (en)

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

  It's absolutely amazing, how my friend Kore is always good for a surprise. In the past weeks, he managed to suprise me multiple times: [Read full post…]

• A pitty in Gentoos PHP distribution (en)

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

  Today I again was annoyed by Gentoos handling of PHP through its packaging system Portage. I love portage above everything else, believe me, but the PHP package sucks. Although it compiles really well and is very easy to configure (hey, thanks Sebastian and all the other maintainers!), Gentoo seems to have an issue with enabling certain compiling options by default. If you don't set any of the USE flags (configuration options for compiling packages through Portage) for PHP, it will simply compile with --disable-all and is completly unusable. [Read full post…]

• eZ components talk in Frankfurt next week (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  As I already announced before, I will be giving a talk about eZ components at the PHP Usergroup FFM meeting upcoming Thursday. I will first present some background information on our architecture, the goals, the design and the possibilities with eZ components. After that, I plan to show a little example application which is build upon the library to let people see how it works. Finally I will be available for questions, feedback and possibly to show examples for specific components. [Read full post…]

• Happy birthday PHPUGDO! (en)

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

  The local PHP usergroup turns 1. The actual annuary of the first meeting is tomorrow, but since we meet every Thursday, we celebrate the birthday today. Although I'm not a member of the first minute, I'm one of the oldest members there. It's very nice to see, what we reached so far. The group grew from a bunch of 4 people that started to meet, to being a real user group by now. Our mailinglist counts 34 subscribers so far and the meetings take place every week with always between 5 to 15 people. We already had a bunch of presentation during our meetings, we had lots of fun just sitting around and ranting about technical stuff and tend to meet for hacking around PHP. But also beside these meetings, we have a fairly good running ICR channel (#phpug on EUIRC) where usually 10-20 people are in. It's very cool to have a bunch of geeks around oneself. Not only that you always have cool ideas (of which you can realize about 5% in your lifetime), but also that you can discuss technical decisions so easily and can have input on all those problems you have. [Read full post…]

• The "Zauberpony" has a blog (en)

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

  Sebastian Nohn (alias the "Zauberpony") finally started blogging about PHP. Welcome to the Planet Sebastian! [Read full post…]

• Services_Trackback and Akismet.com spam checks (en)

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

  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…]

• eZ Components article in php|architect (en)

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

  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…]

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