Kore Nordmann - PHP / Projects / Politics
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:21:20 +0100
:Copyright:		CC by-sa

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Kores random thoughts
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- Character sets vs. encodings

  Todays PHP Advent article iterates the topic of character sets and encodings
  once more. While I welcome this in general, because each developer should
  have at least basic knowledge about this, I would like to clarify some
  points.

- SVN commit hooks

  Thomas moderated a discussion during the PHP-Unconference-Hamburg on SVN
  commit hooks. It showed that there is interest in my commit message parser,
  so that I make it available now…

- FrOSCon upcoming

  The schedule for the PHP room at the upcoming FrOSCon 2009 is now available.
  We got an amazing list of talks and speakers again, read more for details…

- Released PHPillow 0.4-alpha

  PHPillow just got a new release and a new website..

- PHP BBQ tour in Dortmund

  At June 19th the PHP BBQ tour will stop in Dortmund. It will be a great
  event, with sun, beer and tasty grilled stuff. Several interesting people
  will stop by and you are very welcome to join us. For details about the
  meeting read on...

- Standardization of ontologies

  For university I "had" to write a paper about the standardization of
  ontologies, focussing on the historic evolution, the associated technologies
  and the theoretical background of logics. Here it is...

- PHP @ FrOSCon 2009 CfP started

  Once again we, mostly the PHP Usergroup Dortmund, are organizing a PHP room
  at this years FrOSCon and want you to give a talk there...

- Back up your SVN repositories to Mosso CloudFile

  Distributed backup for "private" data. Just a quick bash hack away. Backing
  up your SVN repositories on Mosso CloudFile...

- Release PHPillow 0.3-alpha

  CouchDB 0.9-alpha with several new features and some API changes has just
  been released, so that we are pleased to announce a new release of PHPillow,
  too.  The most important change is PHP 5.2 compability, which comes together
  with some API changes...

- The document component

  Conversion between different document formats can be really hard. The
  document component can help you there, and already implements support for
  several markup languages...