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Image creation with PHP
Saturday, September 29, 2007
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.
Active Record still sucks, but...
Monday, September 3, 2007
My blog post "Why active record sucks" resulted in a series of interesting answers I want to share.
Tagging reviewed
Monday, September 3, 2007
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.
Why are you using BBcodes?
Monday, September 3, 2007
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
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
HTML does not work, neither does XHTML. So how can this be solved without waiting years for better browsers?
Why active record sucks
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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
Sunday, August 26, 2007
I uploaded my slides on "PHPotter - Dooing magic with PHP" from this years amazing FrOSCon
FrOSCon - Rescheduled Talks
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Because of some date problems we had to reshedule some of the FrOSCon talks - had to remove two and got two amazing new talks.
Relicensed website contents
Monday, August 20, 2007
Until now all contents on this website were licensed under CC by-nc-sa - from now on I use CC by-sa only.
ezcGraph 1.1.1 released
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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...