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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 ➞ -
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 ➞ -
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 ➞ -
New features in eZ Components Graph 1.3
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...
Monday, 16 June 2008Read more ➞ -
PHP Charset FAQ
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.
Friday, 30 May 2008Read more ➞ -
FrOSCon 2008 reminder
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.
Thursday, 29 May 2008Read more ➞ -
PHPillow - a PHP CouchDB wrapper - Update
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.
Thursday, 22 May 2008Read more ➞
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