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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.
Wednesday, 7 November 2007Read more ➞ -
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.
Wednesday, 7 November 2007Read more ➞ -
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.
Sunday, 30 September 2007Read more ➞ -
Image creation with PHP
There are several ways to create images or graphics with PHP. First there are some well known extensions, like ext/GD, or perhaps ext/ming everybody immediately remembers, when it comes to graphics generation. But there are several structural differences not in between the avaliable libraries, but also between the image formats you can create. This article series will give you some insight on the formats and libraries, and then shows how an abstraction layer could be build.
Saturday, 29 September 2007Read more ➞ -
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 ➞
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