For university I have been asked to summarize the current state of the Semantic Web. Existing and emerging technologies. There was a quite tight limitation on the amount of content, but it resulted in a good overview on this topic with a slight focus on computer science. read more…
"Arbit aims to provide a decent modern extensible multi project tracking tool." We just released a first development snapshot. Read more... read more…
This article tries to give you an overview on how CouchDB can be used to map data to a data storage and how it is completely different from relational databases. I try to introduce the basic concepts and show an advanced use case. read more…
Developing in lots of different projects with different directory structures and navigating mostly on the shell sometimes makes it hard to keep track on where you currently are. A simple script for shell bookmarks made navigating much easier for me. read more…
CouchDB 0.8.1-alpha has just been released, and so I am doing a second release of PHPillow. The test suite runs just fine against this version of CouchDb. Thanks to the CouchDB team for its awesome work on this new and refreshing kind of database. read more…
CouchDB 0.8-alpha has just been released, and so I am doing a first release of PHPillow. The test suite runs just fine against this version of CouchDb. Thanks to the CouchDB team for its awesome work on this new and refreshing kind of database. read more…
Form time to time I experience the issue that I should detect URLs in some text, while neither the URLs are standard conform (regarding the used characters), nor the URLs are strictly separated from other stuff by whitespaces or something. Now Derick asked me to provide him with a regular expression for that, and I finally wrote some, which should work in most cases... read more…
There are some interesting new features in the driver part of the graph component of the eZ components - one thing I even thought is "impossible" until some external submission... read more…
After lots of questions recently on IRC about charsets and encodings, I decided to write up a FAQ about this. The FAQ can now be found in the article section of my website. If you know a better location for this, got additional questions and / or answers feel free to send me a mail about it. read more…
This is list of frequently asked questions about charsets and encodings within the PHP ecosystem. It also answers some general charset and encoding questions, as it answers HTTP related questions. If you know about other related common questions feel free to send it to one of the authors. read more…