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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Personal and website related stuff
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- Released PHPillow 0.1-alpha

  CouchDB 0.8-alpha has just been released, and so I am doing a first release
  of PHPillow. The test suite runs just fine against this version of CouchDb.
  Thanks to the CouchDB team for its awesome work on this new and refreshing
  kind of database.

- Detecting URLs with PCRE

  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...

- New features in eZ Components Graph 1.3

  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...

- Published PHP charset/encoding FAQ

  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.

- FrOSCon 2008 reminder

  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.

- PHPillow - a PHP CouchDB wrapper

  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.

- ElePHPant & Photos

  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...

- Weihnachtbäckerei

  Die Rezepte, mit denen wir dieses Jahr wieder leckere süße Kleinigkeiten
  zu Weihnachten zubereitet haben...

- Kaffeeservice & Bügelbrett

  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...

- Published article "Image creation with PHP"

  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...