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• Database abstraction slides from IPC (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:34:32 +0100

  I just uploaded my slides from the talk Database abstraction with eZ Components. Thanks to the attendees for being so active and even borrowing me a notebook and an USB stick, since the beamer disliked my Thinkpad! :) The slides are CC by (see last slide for details). [Read full post…]

• Girl Geek Dinner right before IPC/DLW next week (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Next week the Dynamic Languages World conference (aka International PHP Conference Spring Edition) will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany. Nicole organized a Girl Geek Dinner right before the main events start (that means Monday evening). I really like the idea of Girl Geek Dinner, since it's a good attempt to raise the women rate on geek events, which is usually (sadly) extremly low. On the other hand I like to hang around, have some good meal, enjoy a beer and a good technical discussion. Therefore: +1 from my side for Girl Geek Dinner. :) [Read full post…]

• Removed 1100 photos from Flickr (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:34:46 +0100

  After some heavy discussions with Kore and others I researched about German law in respect to individual rights on photos yesterday. Thanks to Arne, who gave me a good starting point (German) for my research. In the end, Kore was mostly right with his interpretation, what made me remove about 1100 photos from my Flickr gallery. All of those showing people dedicatedly where I do not feel to have the explicit permission to publish their pictures. I'll try to explain the reasons, my personal issues and possibly solutions in this article. [Read full post…]

• RoR does not scale? (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  It's interessting to see more people abandoning Ruby on Rails. Not that I have something against Ruby itself, but it really seems to me that RoR does not scale. Hope Twitter tries with PHP. ;) [Read full post…]

• Human support and feature requests at Xing (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  I like Xing. I actually like some of the social networks, although I think there are far to many of them. However, Xing is useful to me for keeping my address book updated by my business contacts themselves and to be up2date about who is doing what. Nice! I'm also a "premium" (in the sense of paying) user in Xing. On the one hand because that gives me some nice additional features and safes me from advertisement. On the other one because I think paying for a good online service is a good idea. [Read full post…]

• PHP @ FrOSCon: This year we are a sub-conference - Call for papers (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  The PHP Usergroup Dortmund will again organize PHP @ FrOSCon this year. As usual this happens in cooperation with the PHP Usergroups Köln/Bonn and Hamburg. The Free and Open Source Conference 2008 is going to happen on August 23rd and 24th. Instead of the past 2 years, we'll not only have a dedicated project room. A dedicated PHP @ FrOSCon track will be a part of the FrOSCon main conference program. [Read full post…]

• Speaking at Dynamic Languages World (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  From May 26th to 28th this year Software & Support organizes a new conference called Dynamic Languages World. In contrast to the usual PHP Conference, which I usually attend, this conference tries to combine the communities around PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy and JavaScript. I'm pretty curious about this kind of composite event and hope to get some cool new inspirations. Despite my interesst in those other languages and the concepts they have in terms of patterns, frameworks and application architecture/design, I'll be giving some talks in the PHP area: [Read full post…]

• Looking forward to PHP Unconference 2008 (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  The PHP Unconference 2007 was one of the most amazing events of the past year, head to head with FrOSCon. Therfore I'm pretty much looking forward to the second installment of the conference, which will take place on April 26th and 27th this year. I'm sure that again a large crowd of really nice geeks will attend and I'm especially looking forward to see many good friends there again. While we already traveled there with a good delegation of Dortmund usergroopies last year, it looks like we will be even more this year. Stay tuned for the Ruhrpott invasion, Hamburg! ;) [Read full post…]

• Using Gmails spam (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Since I maintain my own server for web, mail and some other services, I do not use my Gmail account much. I originally created the account just by curiosity for their UI and now use it to log into other Google services and occasionally if I need a different account than one of my main ones. What I like about Gmail is, that it seems to have a quite good spam filter. In the past half year about 10 spams got through to my inbox, while more than 900 were filtered into the spam folder (in the past 30 days, if you believe Gmail). [Read full post…]

• Tool recommendation: Exaile (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  After I already recommended a software tool in my blog yesterday, I'd like to continue recommending good tools. This time it is Exaile, a greate music player and collection management tool. [Read full post…]

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