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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
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- Who uses PHP?

  Surfing along zend.com I found a nice advertisement banner of them, which
  gives an impression on which large companies are using PHP (since they use a
  Zend product, I guess they do).

- PEPr enhancements

  Saturday night I could not resist doing some code stuff. Although time is
  rare currently, I managed to work a little bit on PEPr and made the
  following changes were made:

- Goto for PHP: Heaven or hell?

  Reading all those mails from the past weeks, I stumbled over several dealing
  with a patch for PHP provided by Sara Goleman, which provides "goto"
  statements for PHP. There seem to be a lot of different opinions on that
  topic, in my eyes mainly depending on the code camp the specific person
  comes from. I wanna pick up some of the statements I found against goto and
  comment on them.

- Seamless roaming for GSM / WLAN / Bluetooth

  Following articles on Slashdot and Heise, the new standard UMA (Unlicensed
  Mobile Access) will allow seamless roaming between the wireless standards
  GSM, WLAN (WiFi) and Bluetooth.

- Conferences to come

  Now, since the summer slump is nearly over, there are more technology
  conferences to come. As there are for me:

- Back in action

  Yeah, true, to begin with, I'm back from vacation and holidays. Although
  I've another month of spare time, I returned to Frankfurt yesterday. Surely
  I will take some more time at my parents home during the upcoming month for
  some more relaxing and meeting with all of my old friends. Nower days I have
  to take care on some issues here in Frankfurt, like moving to Darmstadt and
  maybe some freelancer job for my study time.

- Whoever wins... we loose

  Whoever wins... we loose

- Liking regular expressions, loving regular expressions

  During my vacation I finally found time for some literature and read the
  book "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl. I first saw
  that book while grubbing around on Amazon and I got a glimpse of it, when I
  visited Arnaud in Paris. The latter experience finally convienced my to buy
  it and I can say: It really was worth it.

- Kylie Minogue performs privatly for Deutsche Bank executives

  Sorry, I could not believe that. But take a look yourself... here. Is that
  saving money??

- German jury ratifies GPL

  As recently announcend in the reasons for a judgement from may the 19th this
  year, a German jury ratified the rights of the GPL (GNU Public License). In
  the specific instance the netfilter/iptables project sued Sitecom (a router
  producer) to us the software for their products, without keeping all aspects
  of the GPL. The result of this was the enforcement of an injunction which
  disallows the distribution of the routers under this circumstances in
  Germany.