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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
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- Apache Zeta Components [Was: eZ Components]

  On many conferences I still hear stuff like "hey, what about eZ Components"
  and people often ask my, what the state of the migration of eZ Components to
  Apache Zeta Components is. To make it short: eZ Components are dead, long
  life Apache Zeta Components! To answer the questions in more detail, I just
  published a status update for Apache Zeta Components on the new website of
  Apache Zeta Components, where can find what we did in the past months and
  what is currently going on.

- Highlight source code lines in LaTeX

  I love LaTeX for any kind of text writing (actually typesetting), simply
  because it creates so nice looking and consistent layouts. And, of course,
  because I can write it in my favorite text editor. We use LaTeX especially
  for presentation slides at Qafoo, since the beamer package provides such a
  convenient environment. Combined with listings package, presenting source
  code snippets with nice syntax highlighting has never been easier. However,
  there was one problem we did not solve, yet, until some days ago:
  Highlighting certain source code lines of a listing on different slides.

- Arbit? Service please!

  It's only two weeks left, until Qafoo, the company by Kore, Manuel and me,
  will officially start. Time to reveal another topic of our service
  repertoire: Consulting, training, support and payed development for Arbit,
  your all round project tool of choice.

- Flattr me, I flattr you

  I found Flattr an amazing idea when I heard about it for the first time. Now
  I created my own account on the platform and you can flattr my blog posts. 
  What is this and why should you do it?

- We want your talks: PHP@FrOSCon 2010

  This years FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Conference) will be the fifth
  instance of this amazing event. As usual, the PHP Usergroup Dortmund, in
  cooperation with people from Cologne, organizes a PHP room with talks and
  hacking. If you've never been to FrOSCon, you should really seize the
  chance. If you have been to FrOSCon, yet, you know what you would be
  missing! :)The call for papers for the PHP room is still open until May
  23rd, so take your heels and propose some interesting talks for the PHP
  room.

- Convert from and to OpenDocument

  Yesterday the latest stable release of the eZ Components project, number
  2009.2, was rolled. For this release I worked on support for
  OpenDocumentText (ODT) in the Document component. In this article I show you
  how you can import OpenDocumentText documents and convert them into any of
  the supported formats of the component, how to export data into ODT and how
  to apply styles to the generated documents. You will also see how ODT and
  PDF can be exported with the very same styling information to make them look
  almost identical.

- PHP BBQ Tour 2009 - Dortmund

  On Friday, June 19th 2009, the PHP Barbecue Tour 2009 will visit Dortmund.
  The idea behind PHP BBQ is to bring PHP usergroups from the seminar room to
  the grill. We'll have special guests from the PHP/MySQL community attending
  and will have a great evening with lots of dead animals. If you want to
  join, don't hesitate, it's free! Just bring your own food and drinks.

- An awful lot of files in SVN

  Derick was always bitching at me when doing releases for the huge amount of
  time needed to process the Webdav components sub directory. We always
  supposed, that the Subversion performance issues here resulted from the
  Webdav test suite, which consists of an awful lot of small test files and
  some sub-directories. I finally found the time to refactor the tests and the
  performance improvement is astonishing.

- Evil WebDAV, XML and XPath at IPC SE 2009

  I gave 2 sessions at this years IPC SE: A half-day workshop on XML with PHP,
  with special focus on XPath. And "WebDAV - the good, the bad and the evil",
  where I dug into the WebDAV protocol and the pitfalls of implementing a
  WebDAV server. Find and browse the slides directly online, here.

- PHP@FrOSCon 2009 - Call for papers

  As usual, the PHP Usergroup Dortmund will maintain a PHP@FrOSCon event at
  this years Free and Open Source Conference in St. Augustin (near Bonn),
  Germany. While we created an (amazing) sub-conference for PHP there last
  year, we will have a project room this year. However, we want to have some
  great talks in there again (as we had 2 and 3 years ago) and therefore need
  your help as a speaker!