Come and see us at the LAMPArea booth at LinuxTag where we present you PHProjekt V5, our Chairman Enterprise Application Suite and talk to you about your problems in your company and what problems we solved in our customer projects for companies like HypoVereinsbank, Vaillant Group, Telefónica Germany, citiworks AG, Sixt and others. Furthermore, we…

Adam Bosworth on „Ajax reconsidered“. He outlines: „In fact, I’ve written about all these outages before (see Evolution in Action), but in the context of the current excitement around Ajax, it seems reasonable to describe not only what is different and making it work, but what is still missing.“ Is it a hype? What about…

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As I’ve announced some times ago, we are also offering online PHP training courses in German language. The first workshop will start tomorrow, it’s called „PHP im Unternehmenseinsatz: Datenbankentwicklung mit PHP“. The trainer for this workshop will be Markus Wolff who is a well-known contributor to the PEAR project. Unlike other training seminars, the trainings…

While having a short discussion about AJAX and the ReST on our company’s internal mailinglist Johann brought up some interesting questions about this AJAX hype: does it really work for „normal“ web apps and how are the fixed costs for a HTTP request changing when using AJAX technology? First of all, XMLHttpRequest has a problem:…

Thanks to Tobias who reminded about the photos, you can watch them in my picture gallery.

I joined Christopher’s session about the PayPal API. He quickly stepped through his last year’s presentation about PayPal to explain to the audience what and who PayPal is. PayPal offers different APIs, from normal HTTP POST requests with HTTP redirection to a modern SOAP API. Unfortunately, the SOAP API only provides 3 method calls, so…

I attended the talk of John Coggeshall from Zend, „WebServices in PHP5“. John gave a quick overview about what web services are and how the protocol looks like. He didn’t go into further details explaining the XML of SOAP (which seemed to be a good decision because it’s very complex and not easy to understand…

Day one of the main conference is now over. In the next couple of minutes the Oracle installfest will begin. Speakers will have a speaker dinner at 20.30… the day was full packed with a lot of sessions, mainly targeting to PHP5, i18n and database clustering problems. I had the chance to talk to a…