Since I wrote an article about going to Norway, I even receive Norwegian ads from Googles AdSense program. ;) [Read full post…]
eZ systems recently announced the development of eZ publish Enterprise Components, a high quality framework for development of large scale web applications. The Components will be extracted from eZ publish during migration to the new version 4.0 (which also includes the migration of eZ publish itself to PHP5) and will afterwards be available as an own open source product under the LGPL. The distribution of eZ publish Enterprise Components will be done through a PEAR channel server and therefore utilizing the PEAR Installer. [Read full post…]
In a recent project one of the duties is to make a huge amount of XML documents searchable. I dealt with XML in several situations and used parts of XPath, XSL and Co., but this is a new challange. Be now I have made up my mind and thought about what to do, with so clear result, so I'm trying to ask the public for opinions. [Read full post…]
Time has been running so fast in the past weeks... No it's time for me to travel direction Norway, to visit the eZ Systems (one of my current employers) head quarters. I'll fly tomorrow to Oslo Torp and will arrive at about 5:00pm (I guess) in Skien. I'll stay there for 3 weeks and will return to Dortmund on August 20th. [Read full post…]
Time is running out, so take your heels and vote for Image_3D! :) There are already 14 positive votes by now (no negative ones), but I think the package is worth more! :) [Read full post…]
My PEAR workshop recently get's advertised on Google using Google's AdWords: [Read full post…]
You're developing large PHP applications every day? Your applications are growing fast? You always have low time and budget for your projects? Your PHP based product needs some new nice feature which would take long to implement? You're often developing PHP applications with "rapid prototyping"? [Read full post…]
Found via my referrer stats: http://www.jesus.com.au/html/page/vim. [Read full post…]
I'd like to beg every PEAR developer to vote on Image_3D, the new 3D rendering package for PEAR. Since the first proposal Kore Nordmann (the lead maintainer) highly refactored Image_3D and added some fantastic new features like: [Read full post…]
Open sources are great things, annoying things too. For example, take the PEAR project. There is a huge croud of developers in the project (more than 800 registered users on PEARWeb, more than 200 maintainers), which every day try to improve the project, try to work together and try to learn from what they code and from the code they read. They feel the spirit of open source, they invest much time and train their hard skills in coding and their soft skills in the cooperation with a team. [Read full post…]