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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:48:14 +0100
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- PEAR & me @ Linuxtag

  As some other community collegues already announced 1 2 3: Linuxtag X will
  start on upcoming Wednesday.

- PEAR::Image_3D proposed

  I recently proposed PEAR::Image_3D in PEPr (the PEAR Proposal system).

- Useless, but really damn cool....

  By moving to Dortmund and joining the local PHP user group here, I got to
  know Kore Nordmann, who is also working for eZ systems right now. He is a
  really cool geek and we're getting along amazingly good, regarding work,
  open source and private stuff.

- Wahooo, I have Gentoo! :)

  Although I could not realize my plan to install Gentoo during the weekend
  (because I had to recover my server from a rootkit, but that's another, much
  more painful, story), I managed it by now. :)

- Testing Gentoo

  Today I'll try out Gentoo Linux. Until now I used Debian on all of my
  machines. Of course, Debian stable (no more Woody, but now Sarge) is always
  for me the best choice for servers, but maybe Debian unstable is not the
  best solution for desktops and notebooks. I usually installed Knoppix on
  those kinds of machines, to get a preconfigured X and hardware recognition.
  Of course the initial installation works fine, but all further upgrades seem
  to break the system more and more, I think because of the customizations
  Knoppix has in respect to pure Debian.

- A decade of PHP

  The language we all love more and more over the years turns 10. Following
  the example of Zak I want to thank all those brave guys and girls behind
  PHP. I've neither been with PHP since it's birth, nor since it's so early
  ours, but I've enjoyed its greatnesses (and sometimes hated its bugs) for
  more than a half of its life.

- Getting started at eZ Systems

  Today I signed my freelancing contract with eZ Systems GmbH (the German part
  of the eZ Systems company) here in Dortmund and directly begun my work. I
  will work at eZ about 20 hours a week (beside my studies) and for now I will
  do project based development of customer solutions, which is mostly the
  development of inter- / intranet applications on basis of eZ Publish.
  Luckily, most of the projects they currently have are not the usual content
  management stuff a web developer does everyday, but more interessting jobs
  that have real workflows and need real applications. For the latter part of
  this year its planned to maybe get me into real eZ Publish development,
  meaning taking part in the new version 4.0 of the product, what would be
  quite fun, I guess.

- Bash completion for the PEAR Installer

  I always wanted to have the PEAR commands get auto completed on my bash.
  Here is how it works:

- PHPUGDO - Presentation day: 2005-06-02

  As promised a while ago we'll have a bunch of presentations during the next
  PHP usergroup meeting in Dortmund. Sadly the date for this event was been
  moved several times, mainly because of my rare time in the past weeks
  (thanks guys!). But now the time has come:

- Fighting trackback spam on PEARWeb

  Trackback spammers only needed a couple of weeks to discover PEARWeb's new
  trackback feature for their purposes. Of course I had to do something
  against that, which sadly lasted very long because I've been much too busy.
  Last week I finally managed to release Services_Trackback 0.5.0 and migrated
  the PEARWeb code to the new version. Until now, trackback spam seems to be
  stopped. Ususally there was a huge number new spam trackbacks on PEARWeb per
  day, since last Tuesday there was not even 1.