Personal and website related stuff
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Detecting URLs with PCRE
by Kore Nordmann at Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:17:17 +0200
Form time to time I experience the issue that I should detect URLs in some text, while neither the URLs are standard conform (regarding the used characters), nor the URLs are strictly separated from other stuff by whitespaces or something. Now Derick asked me to provide him with a regular expression for that, and I finally wrote some, which should work in most cases... read more…
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New features in eZ Components Graph 1.3
by Kore Nordmann at Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:42:06 +0200
There are some interesting new features in the driver part of the graph component of the eZ components - one thing I even thought is "impossible" until some external submission... read more…
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Published PHP charset/encoding FAQ
by Kore Nordmann at Sat, 31 May 2008 19:27:40 +0200
After lots of questions recently on IRC about charsets and encodings, I decided to write up a FAQ about this. The FAQ can now be found in the article section of my website. If you know a better location for this, got additional questions and / or answers feel free to send me a mail about it. read more…
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FrOSCon 2008 reminder
by Kore Nordmann at Thu, 29 May 2008 14:04:11 +0200
One of the most interesting OpenSource related events in central europe will happen again in August this year: The FrOSCon. We hope to see you there, as the PHP Usergroup Dortmund again organizes, together with the PHP Usergroup Koeln/Bonn, a PHP track. The call for papers will end in a very few days at 02.06, so ensure you sent us your papers until then. read more…
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PHPillow - a PHP CouchDB wrapper
by Kore Nordmann at Fri, 23 May 2008 14:36:44 +0200
I now talked several times in my blog about CouchDb and gave a talk on the PHP Unconference on this together with Nils. I started to use it quite some time ago and now decided to extract the wrapper I am using, which proved to work quite well. read more…
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ElePHPant & Photos
by Kore Nordmann at Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:32:46 +0100
As a christmas present from Toby I finally received my personal elephpant plush toy. YAY! And thanks to Damien, who made this wonderful plush toy possible. The picuture has of course been taken with another of my christmas present, a DSLR... read more…
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Weihnachtbäckerei
by Kore Nordmann at Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:58:15 +0100
Die Rezepte, mit denen wir dieses Jahr wieder leckere süße Kleinigkeiten zu Weihnachten zubereitet haben... read more…
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Kaffeeservice & Bügelbrett
by Kore Nordmann at Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:08:08 +0100
Mein Bruder hat eine interessante, lustige und zugleich schockierende Geschichte aufgetan und gerade in seinem Blog publiziert. Ein anonymer Edit auf Wikipedia mit falschen Fakten schlägt sich unreflektiert und unrecherchiert in zahlreichen "etablierten" Medien, wie in Spiegel, Welt, Stern und taz, nieder. Mehr Details dazu gibt es im Blog meines Bruders... read more…
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Published article "Image creation with PHP"
by Kore Nordmann at Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:33:26 +0100
I just published a article series on "Image creation with PHP" as my personal christmas present to the PHP community. This is a full guide, covering several libraries (DOM/SVG, Cairo, Ming/Flash, GD) and all the important topics. Read on for details... read more…
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Arne hat eine Webseite
by Kore Nordmann at Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:48:21 +0100
Arne, mein Bruder, hat endlich wieder etwas, das man eine Webseite nennen kann. Momentan befindet sich dort ein Blogeintrag der eben diese ankuendigt, und eine Liste seiner gehaltenen Vortraege. Aber ich bin mir sehr sicher, dass da in naher Zukunft noch weitere interessante Inhalte folgen werden. read more…
