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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 ➞Released first arbit development snapshot
"Arbit aims to provide a decent modern extensible multi project tracking tool." We just released a first development snapshot. Read more...
Wednesday, 22 October 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 ➞CouchDB - A use case
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.
Thursday, 28 August 2008Read more ➞Shell bookmarks
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.
Wednesday, 27 August 2008Read more ➞Released PHPillow 0.2-alpha
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.
Sunday, 17 August 2008Read more ➞Released PHPillow 0.1-alpha
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.
Thursday, 26 June 2008Read more ➞Detecting URLs with PCRE
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...
Saturday, 21 June 2008Read more ➞
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