One of the most interesting OpenSource related events in central europe will happen again in August this year: The FrOSCon. We hope to see you there, as the PHP Usergroup Dortmund again organizes, together with the PHP Usergroup Koeln/Bonn, a PHP track. The call for papers will end in a very few days at 02.06, so ensure you sent us your papers until then. read more…
I now talked several times in my blog about CouchDb and gave a talk on the PHP Unconference on this together with Nils. I started to use it quite some time ago and now decided to extract the wrapper I am using, which proved to work quite well. read more…
Sebastian Deutsch blogs about the use of Traits for implementing Active Record in PHP. With traits, possibly implemented sometime in the future of PHP (5.4?), you at least do not destroy your object semantics anymore - even several problems persist with AR, as discussed earlier. read more…
As a christmas present from Toby I finally received my personal elephpant plush toy. YAY! And thanks to Damien, who made this wonderful plush toy possible. The picuture has of course been taken with another of my christmas present, a DSLR... read more…
Etwas aus der deutschen traditionellen Küche, dass sich kaum noch in aktuellen Rezeptsammlungen finden lässt: Dickebohnen mit Kassler. Ein wunderbares leckeres Wintergericht. read more…
Ein sehr einfaches, leckeres und schnelles Rezept für einen gedeckten Kirschkuchen. Nahezu jeder mag ihn, er ist ideal las Mitbringsel, oder als schnelles Dessert für zwischendurch. Ich "muss" ihn zu nahezu jedem Verwandschaftstreffen mitbringen. :) read more…
Die Rezepte, mit denen wir dieses Jahr wieder leckere süße Kleinigkeiten zu Weihnachten zubereitet haben... read more…
Different markup in different types of contents in each webapplication. Which markup should be used for static contents? read more…
An update of my speed and quality comparison of PHP image libraries, this time including the iMagick2 package from pecl. read more…
Another extract from my article series about image creation with PHP. Image formats are often used in the wrong way. Read on to learn about them, to use the right in the future.. read more…