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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PHP Usergroup Dortmund
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- 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...

- 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.

- Shell bookmarks

  Developing in lots of different projects with different directory structures
  and navigating mostly on the shell sometimes makes it hard to keep track on
  where you currently are. A simple script for shell bookmarks made navigating
  much easier for me.

- Released PHPillow 0.2-alpha

  CouchDB 0.8.1-alpha has just been released, and so I am doing a second
  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.

- 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.