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…]
This moring someone queried me on IRCNet: [Read full post…]
It's been a long while since I worked on my PEAR package Services_Trackback, mainly because I was much too busy with work and university. Nevertheless I made up my mind about how to solve the problem of the so-called trackback spam. In email environments people search for a solution to spam since email was invented and by now, no satisfactory solution was found (AFAIK, please correct me, if I'm wrong, I would be thrilled). Approaches here include complicated techniques like heuristic algorithms and easy ones like grey-listing, as well as sender identification (which is useless by now, since no unique standard exists and almost no program supports it). [Read full post…]
I recently decided to create a new category to my blog, which is dedicated to eZ systems related topics. I know, my frequency on this (especially eZ components) related stuff was quite high in the past weeks and having all those posts ending up in my "PHP" feed was maybe a bit too much. Therefore, all eZ related posts will now be marked by the new "eZ" category and when I consider the post important for other categories (like "PHP" or "Community related"), I will add those additionally. [Read full post…]