Kore Nordmann - PHP / Projects / Politics
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:35:28 +0100
:Copyright:		CC by-sa

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Kores random thoughts
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- Generating XML schemas from XML data

  Already some time ago I published a tool on Github which allows you to
  generate (or learn) XML schemas from XML data. You provide the tool with a
  set of XML files and you get a nice, human readable, XML schema (XSD, DTD,
  …) from that. Read more for the details.

- static considered harmful

  This is a provoking title, but, in my honest opinion, a very valid rule of
  thumb. During the last years of teaching other developers, developing PHP
  libraries and applications and doing quality assurance on other peoples
  software I came to this rather abrasive conclusion - let me tell you why…

- PHP @ FrOSCon 2010

  This years FrOSCon - one of the most awesome open source software
  conferences - is right ahead and we are organizing a PHP track again this
  year. Read more for details.

- Presenting: PHP Commit Hooks

  In our company blog I blogged about a pet project of mine: PHP Commit Hooks.
  This is a follow up to my earlier blog posts: SVN commit hooks, which was
  inspired by a discussion on an earlier PHP Unconference in Hamburg. Read
  more in the the Qafoo blog.

- PHP quality assurance tools

  Some of the most important tools for quality assurance in PHP projects are
  PHP_Depend and PhpUnderControl. In the future Qafoo will provide support for
  both, read on for details.

- Starting Qafoo logo contest

  We are starting a logo contest for Qafoo now, and you can win 350€ (~450$)
  in it! Read more for details.

- Native parallel PHP job queue

  To make use of multiple cores for some rather long processing operations I
  needed a way to fork multiple workers from a single PHP script multiple
  times lately. So I created a small project on github which implements this
  in a way, so that it should reusable by anybody. Read more for the
  details…

- Designing a generic web installer

  Each somehow popular web applications needs one: A proper web installer -
  but there still is no general solution for that. Read more, to see what we
  are planning to do about this…

- FrOSCon - Call For Papers

  One of the most amazing conferences will take place this summer again - the
  "Free and Open Source Conference" - FrOSCon. We will organize a PHP-track
  again, read more for details.

- Where do the eZ Components go?

  Like Toby wrote in his blog, he and me left eZ Systems last month, to focus
  on out diploma thesis and for some new challenges. But where does that leave
  eZ Components?