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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PHP Usergroup Dortmund
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- Comparison of PHP image libraries

  A comparision of speed and output quality of PHP libraries for image
  creation.

- 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...

- Evil bugs in your code

  From time to time I write some code snippets, which I find really hard to
  debug, and the code does not do, what it is expected to do. Especially when
  the code is not tested directly, but only executed in some a bit more
  complex environment. Those are 4 typical errors I introduced in my code, and
  spend some time debugging it, because I found them really hard to spot.
  Luckily, once I spotted the actual bug, I find it a lot easier the next time
  the typo occurs.  Therefore I want to share those, so that I may save you
  some minutes of your life hunting stupid bugs.

- Released kPortal successor: Torii

  After a quite long time, a lot of bug fixes and major changes, with several
  new features, modules and themes, I finally managed to release the successor
  of kPortal: Torii.

- New phpUnderControl release

  Manuel just released a new version of phpUnderControl, which is now hosted
  on phpunit.de and got a new layout. Read on for details...

- PHP Professional Training

  By order of dynamic webpages and phpzertifizierung.eu (both german) I gave
  three trainings, which I just finished. The topics included: "Regular
  expressions", "Testdriven development with PHPUnit" and "Image creation".
  The slides are online now.

- Manuel Pichler just released phpUnderControl

  One of the members of the PHP Usergroup Dortmund, Manuel Pichler, just made
  a first release of phpUnderControl. This is a distribution and patchset for
  CruiseControl to offer you access from the webinterface to statistics you
  can get out of PEAR::Code_Sniffer and PHPUnit with its recently added new
  metrics.  Read on for details...

- Tagging - Broken by design

  In the meantime tagging, as a folksonomy, is often nearly used as equivalent
  to the whole Web-2.0-hype. Nowadays you can't develop any new application
  without adding tags, and I wanted to do the same. But reviewing the system
  in a bit more complex environment shows some major flaws, which can also be
  detected in the implementations of simple applications. This article lists
  some structural problems, and will be followed by other articles describing
  solutions for some of these cases.

- Parse with regular expressions

  With recursive patterns in PCRE you can actually match recursive structures,
  even you should not try this. A regular expression to validate BBCode
  documents is included in the blog post.

- IPC 11/07 - Publishing talks

  I just finished my both talks at the IPC 07, a quick talk on MockObjects and
  a talk abaout regular expressions including a description of the new
  features, like condidtional subpatterns and recursive matches.