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PHP @ FrOSCon 2009 CfP started
Once again we, mostly the PHP Usergroup Dortmund, are organizing a PHP room at this years FrOSCon and want you to give a talk there...
Saturday, 25 April 2009Read more ➞ -
Back up your SVN repositories to Mosso CloudFile
Distributed backup for "private" data. Just a quick bash hack away. Backing up your SVN repositories on Mosso CloudFile...
Saturday, 11 April 2009Read more ➞ -
Release PHPillow 0.3-alpha
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...
Tuesday, 31 March 2009Read more ➞ -
The document component
Conversion between different document formats can be really hard. The document component can help you there, and already implements support for several markup languages...
Monday, 16 March 2009Read more ➞ -
Talk about "Semantic web" at PHPUG Cologne
I will give a talk about the "Semantic Web" at the PHP UserGroup Cologne on March 6th. Details are one click away...
Wednesday, 18 February 2009Read more ➞ -
Charset vs. Encoding
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?
Monday, 16 February 2009Read more ➞ -
Extracting data from HTML
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?
Saturday, 14 February 2009Read more ➞ -
Does accept_charset help in HTML forms?
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?
Wednesday, 11 February 2009Read more ➞ -
Seven things - Tagged by Derick
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.
Friday, 2 January 2009Read more ➞ -
VCS wrapper development
We started developing a wrapper for different version control systems. A rough description and some context...
Thursday, 4 December 2008Read more ➞ -
Fun with XML schema
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...
Wednesday, 3 December 2008Read more ➞ -
Current state of the Semantic Web
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.
Wednesday, 22 October 2008Read more ➞
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