Mayflower Barcamp: Developing a PHP extension for Skype

At the Mayflower Barcamp a few weeks ago we had a very interesting and promising project: Develop a PHP extension for communication with Skype. Actually, this project was a merge between two projects: One was to „develop a PHP extension“ – five out of six project members never had written any PHP extension or did…

Moerfelden from an exhibitor’s view

As regards the conference content, Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance with all kinds of sub topics like Testing, Debugging, Code Reviews and Security were topics relevant in a couple of sessions and workshops. Well, PHP is getting more and more matured. The keynotes were all worth mentioning, particularly Zak Greant who ended in pointing out…

Creating desktop-like applications on the web

We recently were asked to make an offer to create a web based solution for a desktop software. Visually we only had some screenshots of the original desktop application. To make it easier for the customer to decide how a possible solution could look as a web application, we tried to create a prototype looking…