Kore Nordmann - PHP / Projects / Politics
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Mon, 07 May 2012 12:23:38 +0200
:Copyright:		CC by-sa

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Kores random thoughts
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- PHP Subconference at FrOSCon 2012

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

- 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.