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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- 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.

- eZ Components book in the press

  Tobys and my book about eZ Components, published by Galileo Computing, has
  passed the second gelley-proof and will be published very soon.

- Why are you using BBCodes?

  The discussion on my blog post "Do not use regular expressions for parsing"
  ended in a discussion about BBcodes in general. I just used them as an
  example to demonstrate why it it is impossible to parse such a language with
  regular expressions - and mentioned in a subclause, that I don't see any
  sense in using them at all. So why use them at all?

- The long way to a semantic web

  HTML does not work, neither does XHTML. So how can this be solved without
  waiting years for better browsers?

- Why active record sucks

  It is not really Active Record which sucks but the implied, perhaps just
  misinterpreted, common usage as an ORM (object relational mapping). If you
  want ORm do it right and use AR where it belongs to.

- FrOSCon 07

  I uploaded my slides on "PHPotter - Dooing magic with PHP" from this years
  amazing FrOSCon

- FrOSCon - Resheduled Talks

  Because of some date problems we had to reshedule some of the FrOSCon talks
  - had to remove two and got two amazing new talks.

- ezcGraph 1.1.1 released

  We just released ezcGraph 1.1.1 - containing some small bugfixes for the
  prior release 1.1. The 1.1 release contained several interesting new
  features like radar charts, improved support for interactive charts, numeric
  datasets, logarithmical axis, rotated axis labels, improved date axis
  support and more...

- Thomas Weinert now has a blog

  Thomas Weinert - technical director of the papaya CMS, and a known member of
  the german PHP scene - now has a blog with PHP and papaya related contents.
  He already blogged about several interesting topics like using lighttpd with
  papaya and managing file delivery with PHP.

- Arne Nordmann talks about Zope 3

  We are glad to present another talk in the PHP Usergroup Dortmund. My
  brother Arne Nordmann will give us some insight and structural undestanding
  how the platform / application server / server / library Zope 3 works, and
  what we could learn from this software for future PHP projects.