A little bit belated, but as promised during the session, I just uploaded my slides from the talk 6 essential PHP development tools in 60 minutes. Since there is so much to say I actually managed to get 4,5 tools through and for all of these it felt to be too few time. I think I should provide a workshop for the next conference [Read full post…]
I like Xing. I actually like some of the social networks, although I think there are far to many of them. However, Xing is useful to me for keeping my address book updated by my business contacts themselves and to be up2date about who is doing what. Nice! I'm also a "premium" (in the sense of paying) user in Xing. On the one hand because that gives me some nice additional features and safes me from advertisement. On the other one because I think paying for a good online service is a good idea. [Read full post…]
Since I maintain my own server for web, mail and some other services, I do not use my Gmail account much. I originally created the account just by curiosity for their UI and now use it to log into other Google services and occasionally if I need a different account than one of my main ones. What I like about Gmail is, that it seems to have a quite good spam filter. In the past half year about 10 spams got through to my inbox, while more than 900 were filtered into the spam folder (in the past 30 days, if you believe Gmail). [Read full post…]
After I already recommended a software tool in my blog yesterday, I'd like to continue recommending good tools. This time it is Exaile, a greate music player and collection management tool. [Read full post…]
This post is just to claim my blog on Technorati. I'm pretty sure you can ignore this as a reader of my blog. ;) Sorry for the noise! [Read full post…]
Via James Pic I just got to know the fantastic tool irc it (short ii). ii is a very simple and slick designed IRC client, that works on the Linux / Unix shell. ii simlpy uses the file system to structure IRC connections, channels and queries and offers FIFOs to communicate with the server. It allows you to write IRC bots in bash (or any other language that allows file access) with a glimpse and my mind already imagines a huge ton of possible applications. My first test showed that it works really cool! Amazingly cool tool and therefore in the sense of BitlBee (yes, I skipped a year ;) my tool of the year (so far). [Read full post…]
James Pic wrote a little article on how you can import the eZ Components SVN into your local GIT installation. This way you can stick to your favorite version controll system and don't need to use SVN much if you want to try out the latest features in eZ Components and use GIT as your favorite version conroll system. [Read full post…]
I recently migrated my server to a new maschine and a new provider. After supporting Kore today with installing spamdyke on his maschine, too, I seized the chance to update my Spam Filtering with Spamdyke in front of Qmail howto on the wiki. The howto describes how to install the most recent version of spamdyke on a Gentoo system, explains the most important configuration options and gives some practical hints for such setups. You can ask Kore, it only takes about 10 minutes to do so ;) and saves you a huge lot of spam. Comments and addtions are very welcome. [Read full post…]
Judith posted about a funny experiment: Try to enter each letter of the alphabet into your browsers (I guess - or hope - most of you use Firefox, but most other browsers also support autocompletion) and collect the website it suggests first. This is most probably the website you visit most, starting with the specific letter. So, here is my list: [Read full post…]
On November 20th dynamic-webpages.de will start with the first "Professional PHP" online training. This series of online sessions offers you "24 hours of PHP knowledge, from professionals, to professionals". Topics covered in this series of talks are: [Read full post…]