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…]
Judith posted about a funny experiment: Try to enter each letter of the alphabet into your browsers (I guess - or hope - most of you use Firefox, but most other browsers also support autocompletion) and collect the website it suggests first. This is most probably the website you visit most, starting with the specific letter. So, here is my list: [Read full post…]
Also quite old I'd like to recommend the video Revolution OS, which I stumbled upon yesterday, to you. The video deals with the evolution of the open source scene and how it started. While integrating some technical and geeky facts I think it is quite good for non-technical people, too, and can possible give them a hint on what we geeks do here on the internet and how they are affected by it themselves. [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…]
My friend Sandro Groganz, who was leading the eZ Systems marketing department in former times, decided to become self-employed. Sandro will, on solid demand, create his own marketing consultancy, which is directed to the open source market in terms of vendors, contributors and investors of open source projects. Sandro's goal is to help those parties to [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…]
Yesterday night I returned from the yearly International PHP Conference in Frankfurt. As usual this was an amazing event, because you get the chance to meet all those people in real live that you usually only talk to by mail and chat. I really like the ambiance in Mörfelden (where the Conference actually is, not far from Frankfurt), but as Lars stated, it's a good thing that IPC is only 4 days, since a lot of community members would need to detox from alcohol afterwards, if it was longer. ;) You see, we had some great party nights, again. [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…]