What is one of the most important things a developer (and of cause everyone else in IT business) has to do and the worst thing he can imagine to do, at the same time? Correct: Writing documentation. [Read full post…]
As Microsoft recently introduced the patch day, I seem to have silently introduced the blog day... :) My personal blogday is the friday, which is the first day, this week (or maybe about a bit longer), I really have time to write a bit of the stuff down I experienced the last days... Here are some small misc blurbs, which do not last to make a complete entry of them. [Read full post…]
Pretty cool is, what I found in Sebastian Bergmanns Blog. Sebastian is maintainer of phpOpenTracker, which is a pretty cool tool to collect and provide deep website statistics. phpOpenTracker allows, for example, to analyze and especially visualize clickpathes of a website. Sebastian now managed to get 3D visualization for those click-pathes. IMHO it's still a bit unclear in respect to the arangement, but it's definitly cool to show: [Read full post…]
... to use texts in images. [Read full post…]
A little journey into the past is contained in my new dotgeek.org tutorial. During the actual development phase of Image_Text (which I will hopefully release this evening, with some amazing new features and improvements) I fought with that pretty math related problem of rotating an image object. [Read full post…]
Davey Shafic recently sent out the official "Speaking at the PaWS" logo. So, I present mine here: [Read full post…]
Both up and running! Try here: planet-php.net and planet-php.org. :) [Read full post…]
Christian Stocker had and realized a very cool idea. Following the example of Planet Gnome he built Planet PHP. Planet PHP is just the syndication of PEAR and PHP developers Weblogs, but even that is quite cool, since you get the developer's news syndicated on 1 website. I love it. [Read full post…]
The first 2 versions of PHP 5 had been released and even Beta 3 and the call on pear-dev had to come, until I found time to install a version of PHP 5. One of my most important requirements was to have a copy of PHP 4 and 5 running parallel on 1 maschine. Christian Stocker gave me the important advice to simple run 2 Apache instances with different config files. [Read full post…]
Finally I managed to try out PHP 5. Yeah, indeed, there are still people who did not do . I ever planned to install but never had the time to. Now it's done and I started to migrate some code (PEAR::Net_FTP). You will see some source tonight, when i stop. [Read full post…]