schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Tobias Schlitt :Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:48:14 +0100 :Copyright: CC by-nc-sa ================================= Blog - Open Source - schlitt.info ================================= - Status update and IPC So, finally I'm blogging again. I was quite busy with learning for my university exams in the past weeks, which turned out to be a good idea and was honored with best marks for both of them: "Logic based commonsense reasoning" and "Knowledge discovery in databases" (aka datamining). But that part would fit more into a private blog. - FrOSCon 2008: Review of a marvelous conference To make it short: FrOSCon 2008 was as expected - fantastic. :) - Running free, an OpenMoko short report On Wednesday I finally received my OpenMoko Freerunner, the smart phone every open source guy is dreaming of. I don't want to rant a lot about it, but just give you a rough overview on my impressions. - Beware, FrOSCon ahead! One of the most amazing German OS events is right in front of the door. Since the organizers of the FrOSCon expect a massive ammount of visitors, they ask everyone kindly to register on their website. If you did not do so, yet, take your heels and do so! - Really helpful open source guys While writing tests for the eZ Components Webdav component I stumbled over an issue with Konqueror 3.5.9. While we have working tests for the PUT request (uploading files) for version 3.5.7, this request type did not work with my recent Konqueror installation. Some debugging and request dumping in Lighttpd later I was quite sure that Konqueror was the issue. - iRefuseToUse aNamingScheme I find the recent discussion about good naming schemes quite funny. Namespaces are potentially coming in PHP 5.3 (does anyone believe?) and people start discussion about how they can even shorten their names from Abstract to aSomething and from Interface to iAnotherthing. I'm a fan of short names. As Lars pointed out: - Sending HEAD requests with ext/curl ext/curl is the common tool of choice, if one needs to perform more advanced HTTP requests from a PHP script (for simple ones, use a stream!). I recently wanted to perform a HEAD request to a file, after which I wanted to perform some more advanced HTTP interaction, so CURL was also the tool of choice here. - Hierarchical caching One of the cool new features in the new 2008.1 release of the eZ Components library is hierarchical caching. - eZ Conference: A technical view on eZ Components slides I'll be giving a session on the technical aspects of eZ Components in about 20 minutes at the annual eZ Conference here in Skien, Norway. Here are my slides of this presentation for download. It also includes code examples for many new features in our most recent release 2008.1 (hot, just fron Tuesday). I'll write some more about that later. - Firefox 3 out now Last night the Mozilla developers released Firefox 3.0 to the wild. Congratulations for the new major version!