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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- Talk about "Semantic web" at PHPUG Cologne

  I will give a talk about the "Semantic Web" at the PHP UserGroup Cologne on
  March 6th. Details are one click away...

- Charset vs. Encoding

  One of the most common errors when dealing with strings is to confuse
  charset with encoding - and I do understand that very well. So how could
  that happen?

- Extracting data from HTML

  A lot of people try to scrape content from HTML - the first approach always
  seem to be regular expressions, which are incapable of parsing HTML - which
  I proved earlier, already. So, how to do it properly with PHP?

- Does accept_charset help in HTML forms?

  The accept-charset attribute allows you to specify the encoding the server
  should receive the HTML form contents in. Does that help maintaining a
  consistent encoding in your web application?

- Seven things - Tagged by Derick

  I normally don't follow those chain letters - but I guess I have no choice
  here, since Derick "tagged" me :) - whatever this exactly means. Not knowing
  the term in this context seems common though.

- VCS wrapper development

  We started developing a wrapper for different version control systems. A
  rough description and some context...

- Fun with XML schema

  For university I currently have to analyse XML schema quite in depth and
  there are some interesting / funny things inside the specification I wasn't
  before. First: The default elementForm value: unqualified. Let me try to
  explain what this is and why it is kind of strange...

- Current state of semantic web

  For university I have been asked to summarize the current state of the
  Semantic Web. Existing and emerging technologies. There was a quite tight
  limitation on the amount of content, but it resulted in a good overview on
  this topic with a slight focus on computer science.

- Released first arbit development snapshot

  "Arbit aims to provide a decent modern extensible multi project tracking
  tool." We just released a first development snapshot. Read more...

- CouchDB - A use case

  This article tries to give you an overview on how CouchDB can be used to map
  data to a data storage and how it is completely different from relational
  databases. I try to introduce the basic concepts and show an advanced use
  case.