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• PHP @ FrOSCon: This year we are a sub-conference - Call for papers (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  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…]

• Speaking at Dynamic Languages World (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  From May 26th to 28th this year Software & Support organizes a new conference called Dynamic Languages World. In contrast to the usual PHP Conference, which I usually attend, this conference tries to combine the communities around PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy and JavaScript. I'm pretty curious about this kind of composite event and hope to get some cool new inspirations. Despite my interesst in those other languages and the concepts they have in terms of patterns, frameworks and application architecture/design, I'll be giving some talks in the PHP area: [Read full post…]

• Looking forward to PHP Unconference 2008 (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  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…]

• Using Gmails spam (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Since I maintain my own server for web, mail and some other services, I do not use my Gmail account much. I originally created the account just by curiosity for their UI and now use it to log into other Google services and occasionally if I need a different account than one of my main ones. What I like about Gmail is, that it seems to have a quite good spam filter. In the past half year about 10 spams got through to my inbox, while more than 900 were filtered into the spam folder (in the past 30 days, if you believe Gmail). [Read full post…]

• Tool recommendation: Exaile (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  After I already recommended a software tool in my blog yesterday, I'd like to continue recommending good tools. This time it is Exaile, a greate music player and collection management tool. [Read full post…]

• Claiming my blog (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  This post is just to claim my blog on Technorati. I'm pretty sure you can ignore this as a reader of my blog. ;) Sorry for the noise! [Read full post…]

• Tool of the year: ii (irc it) (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  Via James Pic I just got to know the fantastic tool irc it (short ii). ii is a very simple and slick designed IRC client, that works on the Linux / Unix shell. ii simlpy uses the file system to structure IRC connections, channels and queries and offers FIFOs to communicate with the server. It allows you to write IRC bots in bash (or any other language that allows file access) with a glimpse and my mind already imagines a huge ton of possible applications. My first test showed that it works really cool! Amazingly cool tool and therefore in the sense of BitlBee (yes, I skipped a year ;) my tool of the year (so far). [Read full post…]

• Privacy problems explained (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  In the past years privacy issues have increased more and more in our civilisation. Sometimes under the hood of "fighting against terrorism", but in many cases simply straight forward, authorities and companies start violating our privacy more and more. In Germany the "Payback" (German link) card is a more or less harmless example for tracing customers, where the "Bundestrojaner" (German link) is a really dangerous one. [Read full post…]

• eZ Components and GIT (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  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…]

• Major update for spamdyke on Gentoo howto (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  I recently migrated my server to a new maschine and a new provider. After supporting Kore today with installing spamdyke on his maschine, too, I seized the chance to update my Spam Filtering with Spamdyke in front of Qmail howto on the wiki. The howto describes how to install the most recent version of spamdyke on a Gentoo system, explains the most important configuration options and gives some practical hints for such setups. You can ask Kore, it only takes about 10 minutes to do so ;) and saves you a huge lot of spam. Comments and addtions are very welcome. [Read full post…]

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