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…]
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…]
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…]
James Pic wrote a little article on how you can import the eZ Components SVN into your local GIT installation. This way you can stick to your favorite version controll system and don't need to use SVN much if you want to try out the latest features in eZ Components and use GIT as your favorite version conroll system. [Read full post…]
I recently stumbled over reflecting private properties in PHP again. As you might know, this was not possible until now and if you tried this: [Read full post…]
Dynamic-Webpages just elected our eZ Components book to be the book of the month. On the website you now find a picture of the book in a very prominent place and an extensive recension (German) linked from there. Thanks to Wolfgang from Dynamic-Webpages for choosing the eZ Components book and to Sebastian for digging into it and giving a review from a well-known author. [Read full post…]
When my friend Marcus asked me if I'd like to order ElePHPants with him together to save shipping cost I thought it would be time that our local PHP usergroup gets some new members: The ElePHPant family! After I messed up with our original order in May 2007 (because of too much work with the book and more), I thought it would be nice to give an ElePHPant to the core members as a belated christmas present. See the happy people and their ElePHPant family below: [Read full post…]
Yesterday we brought out a new version of the eZ Components full bundle, which candidates to become the next stable release of our enterprise component library on December 17th. [Read full post…]
Since about a week, Kores and my first book is being shipped. As you can see below, we already got some examples and hope that everybody who ordered in advance got their examples by now, too. If you don't, stay tuned they should arrive soonish. We are both absolutly amazed by the priniting quality and the overall impression of the bookl. Many many thanks again to Stephan Mattescheck, our lector at Galileo Computing, for his great support and the amazing work of the whole team! [Read full post…]
The yearly International PHP Conference in Frankfurt (or like I usually say: the family meeting) is approaching rapidly and I'd like to invite you to join me in my Hands on eZ Components full day workshop. The session will take place on the first workshop day, which is Sunday the 4th of November, and will provide 6 hours of bundled eZ Components knowledge to you. [Read full post…]