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• FrOSCon 2010 slides online (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:12:00 +0200

  I uploaded my slides about the Apache Zeta Document component to Slideshare. The talk was held yesterday in the PHP room at FrOSCon. [Read full post…]

• Qafoo - software quality since 1886 (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:32:59 +0200

  Of course not, but still, the building that hosts our office was built at that time. ;) However, this post should simply tell you that Qafoo, the company by Kore, Manuel and me, has started on July 1st officially and that our company website went online just some minutes ago. You can now find all of our services online, nicely presented in a fresh green. And of course, you can send us a message right away, if you desire training, consulting or support anyway related to PHP software quality. [Read full post…]

• Zeta mailinglists available (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:40:46 +0200

  The new mailinglists for the Zeta components have just been created in the Apache Incubator space. So, it's time to start switching to the new infrastructure. [Read full post…]

• Twitter avatars in TwIRCd (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:36:43 +0200

  TwIRCd integrates Twitter with your IRC client by implementing an IRC server, mainly developed by Kore until now. During the past weekend, our unofficial PHPUGDO hackathon, I seized the chance to implement support for Twitter avatars for it. Pretty useless, but fun. ;) [Read full post…]

• We want your talks: PHP@FrOSCon 2010 (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Fri, 14 May 2010 10:42:13 +0200

  This years FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Conference) will be the fifth instance of this amazing event. As usual, the PHP Usergroup Dortmund, in cooperation with people from Cologne, organizes a PHP room with talks and hacking. If you've never been to FrOSCon, you should really seize the chance. If you have been to FrOSCon, yet, you know what you would be missing! :)The call for papers for the PHP room is still open until May 23rd, so take your heels and propose some interesting talks for the PHP room. [Read full post…]

• Qafoo - The PHP quality ninjas (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:24:24 +0200

  As announced earlier in this blog, Manuel, Kore and me are in the process of founding our own company. Now it's time to present the name we have thought out for this operation. We are Qafoo - The PHP quality ninjas. Isn't that cool? :) So, let me try to explain the origin of this name here. Feel invited to comment on our idea and to give us some inspiration. [Read full post…]

• Goodbye eZ Systems, hello world! (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:15:57 +0200

  It's already all over town, so here comes finally the announcement: Kore and me left eZ Systems officially by the first of April. We already wanted to announce this earlier, but there were still some things in progress, which needed to stabilize before we could do so. Here we go now, with some really exciting news … [Read full post…]

• Python. Good, bad, evil -3-: Flow control exceptions (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:43:28 +0200

  My grandma is a wise lady. She told me many useful mantras which I should repeat every night before going to bed. One of these is Never use Exceptions for flow control. And she is so right with this. It is even so true, that every OOP newbie should get this mantra tattooed on his hand. During my experiments with Python I sadly found it violated in a central place: When it comes to implementing an iterator. [Read full post…]

• Automated testing with GUI clients (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:45:44 +0200

  As all eZ Components, the eZ Webdav component is highly unit tested. But since WebDAV clients all interpret the standard a little (or more) different, we implemented custom regression tests for this component, based on the PHPUnit framework. Generating these regression tests with each and every supported client was still tedious handwork so far. This needed to be done whenever the servers responses changed due to bug fixes or feature implementations. In this article I present Sikuli, a screenshot based GUI testing framework, which I now used to automate this last part of the testing process. [Read full post…]

• Python. Good, bad, evil -2-: Native sets (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:21:47 +0200

  One thing I really liked in Python is the data structure set, which is built into the language core. A set in Python is defined as known from mathematics and beside mathematical use cases, it is helpful in everyday programming live. In this episode of my series on Python, I give you a short insight into how sets work in there, how you can achieve similar results in PHP and why I like the Python approach. [Read full post…]

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