Kore and me are going to visit the PHP Usergroup Bielefeld on Saturday for a christmas event. I'm very much looking forward to this and quite currious, if Bielefeld really exists (the german version of this article is much better)! ;) [Read full post…]
Kore will give a session about "3D-Rendering Algorithms" on our upcoming usergroup meeting here in Dortmund, this Thursday (14th). He will go into detail of some of the algorithms used in Image_3D and introduce us to 3D rendering in general. [Read full post…]
Because I had a talk about how to use VIM in respect to PHP source code editing, I took the time during the week, to write some extensive documentation for PDV, the PHP Documentor plugin for VIM. Additionally, I documented my VIM file type plugin, which is also available through the SVN of PDV. Take a look at the README.txt to learn more. [Read full post…]
I like Horde quite much, it provides a comfortable web mailer (IMP) and some nice extra tools which give you a really comfortable groupware feeling with it... if you manage to set it up, once. By now, this has been quite a pain in the ass, which is why I did not upgrade my installation for a longer time. Though, now it was time to do so, because I already missed several security updates and bug fixes. [Read full post…]
Last Thursday, during our regular usergroup meeting, we finally managed to set up some talks we had planned for a longer time now: [Read full post…]
Jakob (a good friend of mine from the PHP UG Dortmund) has written a bash script to create class graphs (non UML conform, but what shalls?) from a PHP source directory. The resulting SVG is generated through GraphViz. He just ran the script on the eZ components. Here is a small excerpt: [Read full post…]
While I did not have a camera with me to this years International PHP Conference, I definitly saw lot's of flashes all of the conf. I wonder where all those photos have gone? Aaron already posted his on Flickr, but where is the rest? [Read full post…]
During his keynote on the International PHP Conference 2006 Bray performed a little comparison between Java, Ruby (mainly Rails) and PHP. While I first thought, this could only be some dumb marketing stuff, the presentation was actually really good. Tim first introduced his comparison basis (Scaling, Dev Tools, Dev Speed and Maintainability) and explained his views on the 4 topics and which keywords he considers under each of them. This introduction was really good and well-founded. After that, he showed and explained a diagram to make the actual comparison: [Read full post…]
Kore and me just finished out talk "The eZ Components roundup" at the International PHP Conference 2006 in Frankfurt. You can find the slides at the PHP talks website. [Read full post…]
As the result of the Helloween afterpain, PHP Usergroup Dortmund proudly presents: [Read full post…]