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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?
Monday, 3 September 2007Read more ➞ -
Tagging reviewed
The concept of tagging has not only established in so called Web 2.0 applications, but also in desktop application to structure random data. The basic concept is easy to understand for users and easy to implement, but does ot work to structure your data? A summarization of concepts, ideas and open questions.
Monday, 3 September 2007Read more ➞ -
Active Record still sucks, but...
My blog post "Why active record sucks" resulted in a series of interesting answers I want to share.
Monday, 3 September 2007Read more ➞ -
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?
Wednesday, 29 August 2007Read more ➞ -
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.
Tuesday, 28 August 2007Read more ➞ -
FrOSCon 07
I uploaded my slides on "PHPotter - Dooing magic with PHP" from this years amazing FrOSCon
Sunday, 26 August 2007Read more ➞ -
FrOSCon - Rescheduled 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.
Tuesday, 21 August 2007Read more ➞ -
Relicensed website contents
Until now all contents on this website were licensed under CC by-nc-sa - from now on I use CC by-sa only.
Monday, 20 August 2007Read more ➞ -
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...
Tuesday, 14 August 2007Read 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.
Monday, 13 August 2007Read more ➞ -
Arne Nordmann gives a talk 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.
Monday, 30 July 2007Read more ➞ -
Do NOT try parsing with regular expressions
Often people try to use regular expression to parse markup like BBCodes or HTML. Why this will never work, or can work, and why BBCode suck in general. As a reference to reduce the amount of explanations on this topic for the future.
Friday, 27 July 2007Read more ➞
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