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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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- PDV on Ohloh

  Are you using my phpDocumentor for VIM plugin? Go ahead and stack it! :)

- 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.

- 10 golden rules for starting with open source

  Are you new to open source? Or if not, do you still remember, what it was
  like, as you first started with open source? I recently tried to remember
  these days... back in 2001, when I started playing around with PEAR and
  shortly after that started to work on my own packages for PEAR...

- The "developer kit"

  The Mozilla Development Center has a new mascot called "developer kit":

- PHP community card deck

  Derick pointed me to these funny cards, yesterday. Really cool work, I
  think, and propably quite useful, if you go to a conference without knowing
  anybody. ;) Thanks to Cal for this great piece of artwork!

- eZ components on Ohloh

  I tried a several times to get eZ components (and other eZ projects) into
  Ohloh. Ohloh claims to do "Mapping the open source world by collecting
  objective information on open source projects", which fits the website
  content quite well. If I got the basic project idea correctly, it should
  give managers an impression on the quality and usability of open source
  projects. Since managers usually want to have "hard facts", Ohloh tries to
  masure numbers it can extract from various public project data (e.g. from
  SVN).

- 3 years of blogging

  Yes, it's true, exactly 3 years ago I wrote my first blog entry. By that
  time I would never have imagined, that I would keep blogging for more than 3
  years and that more or less constantly. My weblog now contains 458 entries.
  Surely, there is some bulshit in it and if I go back, I sometimes wonder,
  why a specific entry was worth blogging to me. Anyway, in this entry, I want
  to make a little journey with you and give you some links to the most
  interessting / annoying / funny / useful / useless / ... blurbs on this
  site. But before we start, here some more or less actual stats:

- Reading recommendation: "Exploring PHP"

  Kore just returned from his Canada vacation and gave me a hand-signed copy
  of the book he co-authored, "Exploring PHP" - "Von Insidern lernen".
  Although I did not read it, yet, I'd like to recommend it to you, since I
  think to know the authors good enough to believe they write good books. The
  book is (beside others) written by my friends Markus Nix, Sandro Groganz,
  Kore Nordmann, Stephan Schmidt and Christian Wenz, all of them well-known
  experts from the PHP community.

- No new content from me at phpfreaks (hopefully)

  As I posted a few days ago, I was (and still am) very upset, that
  phpfreaks.com still aggregated my content through the feed of
  phpdeveloper.org. While I appreciate that phpdeveloper.org aggregates my
  content, I dislike the way phofreaks.com does it (with adding ads to my
  literal words).

- Remove the aggregation permission of phpfreaks.com

  In a lack of a contact email address on phpfreaks.com (intentionally without
  any link, see here, why), I send this as an open letter: