Distributed backup for "private" data. Just a quick bash hack away. Backing up your SVN repositories on Mosso CloudFile... read more…
CouchDB 0.9-alpha with several new features and some API changes has just been released, so that we are pleased to announce a new release of PHPillow, too. The most important change is PHP 5.2 compability, which comes together with some API changes... read more…
Conversion between different document formats can be really hard. The document component can help you there, and already implements support for several markup languages... read more…
I will give a talk about the "Semantic Web" at the PHP UserGroup Cologne on March 6th. Details are one click away... read more…
One of the most common errors when dealing with strings is to confuse charset with encoding - and I do understand that very well. So how could that happen? read more…
A lot of people try to scrape content from HTML - the first approach always seem to be regular expressions, which are incapable of parsing HTML - which I proved earlier, already. So, how to do it properly with PHP? read more…
The accept-charset attribute allows you to specify the encoding the server should receive the HTML form contents in. Does that help maintaining a consistent encoding in your web application? read more…
I normally don't follow those chain letters - but I guess I have no choice here, since Derick "tagged" me :) - whatever this exactly means. Not knowing the term in this context seems common though. read more…
We started developing a wrapper for different version control systems. A rough description and some context... read more…
For university I currently have to analyse XML schema quite in depth and there are some interesting / funny things inside the specification I wasn't before. First: The default elementForm value: unqualified. Let me try to explain what this is and why it is kind of strange... read more…