By moving to Dortmund and joining the local PHP user group here, I got to know Kore Nordmann, who is also working for eZ systems right now. He is a really cool geek and we're getting along amazingly good, regarding work, open source and private stuff. [Read full post…]
Trackback spammers only needed a couple of weeks to discover PEARWeb's new trackback feature for their purposes. Of course I had to do something against that, which sadly lasted very long because I've been much too busy. Last week I finally managed to release Services_Trackback 0.5.0 and migrated the PEARWeb code to the new version. Until now, trackback spam seems to be stopped. Ususally there was a huge number new spam trackbacks on PEARWeb per day, since last Tuesday there was not even 1. [Read full post…]
I finally managed to upload the next release of Services_Trackback (which is a generic class for sending and receiving trackbacks). The most important new feature for this version is integrated spam checking. Services_Trackback now implements a flexible API to add spam detection modules to a trackback using [Read full post…]
It's time to continue my series, since I again updated my .vimrc in the past weeks for much more comfortable editing of PHP sources using VIM. There are several new features I added: [Read full post…]
I really love it: I'm currently sitting around in a car repair shop and have to wait for about 2 hours for my car to be repaired. Dead time you think? Not really, since a T-Online-Hostspot is available. :) I wish there would be WiFi all around the world... And maybe even a bit cheaper! ;) [Read full post…]
Seems like I currently have an affection for continuations. After the sequel to my entry "Comfortable PHP editing with VIM" now a sequel for a much older entry follows. [Read full post…]
I updated my .vimrc regarding the comments posted for my first entry about "Comfortable PHP editing with VIM". You can see and download it here. [Read full post…]
I've always been a vi-hater, until I really came to know it. As most Unix newbes I first did not know in a way how to deal with vi in general and therefore never even touched it for years (I guess in the very first weeks, I did not even know, it exists). [Read full post…]
Ok, let's say nearly, since I missed the exact termin, although I had a big fat note in my cellphone callendar. What do we learn of that? Never switch cellphones and do not migrate tha callendar, because you believe there are no more important notes in it... [Read full post…]
Klaus Guenther recently told me that he started blogging. His thoughts on PHP will therefore be aggregated on Planet PHP from now on. Welcome to the planet, Klaus! ;) [Read full post…]