I finally managed to upload the next release of Services_Trackback (which is a generic class for sending and receiving trackbacks). The most important new feature for this version is integrated spam checking. Services_Trackback now implements a flexible API to add spam detection modules to a trackback using [Read full post…]
It's time to continue my series, since I again updated my .vimrc in the past weeks for much more comfortable editing of PHP sources using VIM. There are several new features I added: [Read full post…]
The International PHP Conference 2005 Spring Edition in Amsterdam ended on Wednesday. As usual, it's been a great PHP event and meeting all those community members was really cool again. Sadly I had to leave on Wednesday noon, because of a meeting on Wednesday afternoon. [Read full post…]
That's really something that makes me more than angry. If someone really has a problem with open source (maybe he wants to sell his software and feels threatened by high quality open source products), I accept that he tries to prohibit that. But WTF is that for an argument, that the GPL violates the "Clayton Antitrust Act" (US law) in dictating fixed prices for software? [Read full post…]
This morning (at the horrible time of 8:00 a.m.) I talked about "What's new in PEAR" at the International PHP Conference Spring Edition in Amsterdam. While preparing for the talk yesterday, I more or less completly switched the topic from "PEAR and PHP5" to "News from PEAR" and the greatest amount of slides contained stuff that's new in PEAR but not necessarily related to PHP5 (although I still had some PHP5 stuff in there). The topics I covered were: [Read full post…]
I recently uploaded the slides from our workshop yesterday (XML and Webservices in PHP5.0/5.1, PECL and PEAR). The package includes all of our slides (253) and the examples used in the slides as complete source code. The download will be also linked in the support section of PEARWeb. [Read full post…]
Yippieh! Just in time for the International PHP Conference 2005 Spring Edition, which will take place from Monday to Wendsday next week in Amsterdam (RAI Conference Center), the *merchandising ballpens* I ordered arrived``*``. Indeed, they are really really cool (much cooler than on this really bad photo).... [Read full post…]
Yesterday evening was the second meeting I attended of the PHP user group Dortmund. Sadly we've only been 5 people, although there are currently 12 members on the mailinglist. Since we wanna start some kind of useful project with the group members (what project this will be is not ready for the public, yet) and have a huge variaty of states of knowledge in the group, we decided to have an educational session in our next meeting. All of the 5 attendants from yesterday took a topic to prepare a little presentation (30-45 minutes) for the next meeting (in 2 weeks, 5th of May). [Read full post…]
I recently received my results from the Zend Certification Exam and (luckily) I passed it. So, from now on, I can call myself a "Zend Certified Engineer". Nice. :) [Read full post…]
The next meeting is planned for the upcoming Thursday (21st of April) again at the Teachforce GmbH Office (Martener Str. 539) in Dortmund. [Read full post…]