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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa

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- The PHP OO candy store

  The october issue of the International PHP Magazine has been published,
  including "The PHP OO candy store", an article about PHP5s cool OO features
  and SPL. The article looks cool and I was really suprised to see that it
  became the cover story. :)

- eZ Template article

  Yesterday my new article about the eZ Template component (part of the eZ
  components since 1.1) was published. The article deals with using the
  template engine in a real-life example and deals with most of it's great
  features like automatic output escaping, cycles, template includes and many
  of the built-in template functions.

- My first interview

  Fullo made an interview with me, during phpDay in Bari, about Open Source,
  Web 2.0, PHP and eZ. Also it's on the Italian OSSBlog website, it is written
  in English.

- PHPUGDO sponsered by PHP Solutions magazine

  The PHP Solutions magazine is now sponsoring the PHP Usergroup Dortmund.
  Thanks to Dariusz Pawlowski, we are receiving some examples of each issue
  for free now, to be used in the user group. During our meeting yesterday, I
  opened the first 2 envelopes and we already got 1 example of the past 3
  issues, as well as 3 examples of the current issue. The magazine examples
  will be hosted by Tobias Struckmeier at the eZ Systems GmbH office, so every
  usergroupy is free to borrow one for some days from there.

- The eZ Components tutorial online

  We finally got a tutorial about eZ components online. I wrote a little
  example application for that, which realizes a very basic image gallery on
  basis of the eZ components. It explains how to use a lot of our components
  in the real world, like Database, PersistentObject, ImageConversion, and
  some more. You can directly view it online and download it's source code
  here. Would be great to get some feedback on it!

- eZ Components article in php|architect

  Derick wrote an article about eZ components for the latest issue of
  php|architect. It deals with the goals for the project as well as
  architectural decisions that we took while developing this components
  library.

- Reading recommendation

  Zak Greant (collegue here at eZ and well known in the community) just sent
  me a great collection of book recommendations related to open source,
  management and marketing, which I'd like to share here:

- PHP is highly addictive

  Maybe old, but quite funny. :)

- A look at package2.xml and how to create a PEAR 1.4 package.

  I recently gave an overview on what will be new in PEAR 1.4, this time I'd
  like to start publishing some more detailed info on PEAR 1.4 news. Today's
  topic is package.xml version 2 and how to create a PEAR 1.4 package.

- 1 year of blogging...

  Ok, let's say nearly, since I missed the exact termin, although I had a big
  fat note in my cellphone callendar. What do we learn of that? Never switch
  cellphones and do not migrate tha callendar, because you believe there are
  no more important notes in it...