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• The time of the conferences... (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  While I have not been to any conference since last november, the time of the conferences seems to come again. So, here I go: [Read full post…]

• 10 golden rules for starting with open source (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:40:59 +0200

  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... [Read full post…]

• Why documentation matters (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  If you kept an eye on Planet-PHP during the past days, you will have seen a discussion emerging about the sense of doc blocks and documentation in general. Travis Swicegood states a quite interessting point of view. His main point is, that program languages themselves are declarative and that it is somewhat stupid to describe the purpose of a method in plain english, if it has been already described by the programming language itself. Although I never thought in this direction so far, I can see a valid point here. Partly. [Read full post…]

• Why code coverage matters (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  I'm a fan of PHPUnit code coverage reports. And with this sentence I can see a lot of the developers out there shiver, because they are of the opinion, that code coverage reports for unit tests are nonsense and cannot give you any hint on the quality of a test suite. I see it a bit differently. Surely, a high code coverage rate of a test suite does never indicate, that code is well tested (if you have not written the code and tests yourself). But the other way around works: A small code coverage rate definitly means, that the test suite is not sufficient. But let me dig a bit deeper into code coverage and what it gives you. [Read full post…]

• PHP@FrOSCon: Call for papers (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  The PHP Usergroup Dortmund is proud to announce the call for papers for this years PHP room at the "Free and OpenSource Conference". The conference, which is organized purely by open source enthusiasts on a voluntary basis, will take place from 2007-08-25 and 26. Location of the FrOSCon will again be the University of St. Augustin (near Bonn), Germany. [Read full post…]

• eZ Components in German "Linux Magazin" (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  The German "Linux Magazine" asked me a while ago to write an article about eZ Components for their special edition "Scripting 2.0" (dedicated to scripting languages). They published a shortened (and somewhat rephrased) version of the article online, as a teaser (German, of cause). [Read full post…]

• Back to Windows... (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Today I needed to start up my VMWare to test some PHP stuff on a Windows XP installation. I was quite curious, how I would perform after more than 4 years completly without Windows. Here are my experiences... [Read full post…]

• Dangers of CSRF and XSS (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Ilia has written a very good article about CSRF and XSS attacks, how they work and how to prevent them for ez.no. [Read full post…]

• Object relation mapping in eZ Components (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  I wrote an article, that introduces the relation featuresw of our ORM compoenent "PersistentObject" to you, using a practical example application. For me the coolest feature of PersistentObject is, that the component does not require you're ORM enabled classes to inherit from a certain base to allow your objects to be stored in a database (made persistent). PersistentObject simply allows you to configure any of your applications objects to be persistent and you keep a nice an clean OO structure. If you are interessted in learning more, just follow my trip into PersistentObject on ez.no. [Read full post…]

• Kore going mad again: kaforkl (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:34:32 +0100

  My friend Kore is going mad again. As usual, it has something to do with graphics... But this time in a completly different way than before: Kore created his own small programming language, which he named "kaforkl". [Read full post…]

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