schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Tobias Schlitt :Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200 :Copyright: CC by-nc-sa ================================= Blog - Open Source - schlitt.info ================================= - Website recommendation A really need to do a good friend a favor, because his website is really cool, although not in a technical sense, but for it's contents. Don't have something for your fathers birthday, yet? Try here! He has some really neat stuff and for every father the right gift: If it is the eatable underwear, a carrera racing trail, a special six-pack cooling bag or a disgner grill for the barbecue-party. - PHP@FrOSCon - Timetable online! Finally, after a long call-for-papers and a 2 weeks decision phase, the PHP Usergroup Dortmund is proud to announce the timetable for the PHP-room at this years Free and Open Source Conference in St. Augustin, near Bonn, Germany. - I love namespaces While I have been waiting for namespaces support in PHP since the early days of PHP 5, the recent proposal by Dmitry looks very promising to me. I really like the way, namespaces are defined and used. Especially the use of "::" for namespaces. This way of handling them looks much more intuitive than any other operator proposed so far (yes, I know, characters don't matter). I did not dig into internals of this proposal, but the post about it seems to be well-thought and the concept looks promising. - PHP@FrOSCon call for papers over After a long term of proposal time, the call for paper for the PHP room at the FrOSCon conference is finally over. The PHP Usergroup Dortmund will evaluate the received proposals by the end of next week and will inform speakers about their proposal status ASAP. An official time table for the PHP room will be available in about 3-4 weeks. - OpenOffice.org annoyance: Cross references I really like OpenOffice.org. Until now, it satisfied any of my needs quite fine. But since I am writing a book using OpenOffice.org, I found some really annoying stuff. Most annoying by now, is the problem of cross references. It happens almost in every text section, that I need to add a reference to another section of the book. For example, while writing about securing user data I want to point to the section of a database chapter, where prevention of SQL injection is explained. I basically want to add a reference like 'See section X.Y.Z, "SQL injection"'. - The final run: PHP@FrOSCon Just to remind you, if you did not propose a talk yet for PHP@FrOSCon, be sure to hurry! The call for papers will end this Friday, so take your heels and propose something interessting! - PDV on Ohloh Are you using my phpDocumentor for VIM plugin? Go ahead and stack it! :) - I saw it! During this years eZ Conference, which was an amazing event, I saw the first draft of the original PHP elephant plush toy! Amazingly cool! - Ohloh becoming sensible Almost 1 year ago I blogged about Ohloh, and eZ Components being registered there. Those days I just found it funny to see how they measure the project cost of open source projects based on the ammount of code contained and things. Recently I am actively watching Ohloh and I think, by now it becomes a serious project with real value for every involved party. The maintainers added many new features to Ohloh, since I last blogged about it, and many contributors started participating in the service. So, I want to revise my "review" of Ohloh from the last year and explain how I see it by now. - PHP@FrOSCon - Call for papers extended Because the members of the PHP Usergroup Dortmund were a bit busy in the past weeks, we totally forgot about the nearing end of our call for papers for the PHP room at FrOSCon 2007. Therefore, here comes the reminder and the announcement, that our call for papers is extended until June 29th. So if you did not send your proposal, yet, please submit it ASAP, so that we can start evaluating the proposals. All information about PHP@FrOSCon can be found on our official PHP room website.