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  • Silence of the LAMPs

    (based on a true story) A well-known but discouraged operator in PHP is the silence operator @, that supresses any output, that a particular command may yield. Read on to find out how you should not use it.

  • Mayflower LDAP at Barcamp

    At the Barcamp 2009 Alex, Michele, Michel, Markus, Sven and I continued a project that had already begun at the Barcamp 2008 – Creating an LDAP structure for internal Mayflower use and implementing a basic tool set for the administration. A new LDAP scheme was created, a maintenance tool based on Zend Framework and Dojo…

  • Home of Hope – 3. Platz Spendenaktion

    Das Waisenhaus von Home of Hope Mein Vorschlag war der NEIA e.V., kurz für Nachhaltige Entwicklung in Afrika. Der Grund war einfach: Ich habe Julia Blüml über eine gemeinsame Freundin kennengelernt, und konnte aus erster Hand von der Arbeit und den Erfolgen vor Ort erfahren. Ausgerüstet mit Bildern von Julia direkt vor Ort konnte ich…

  • Serendipity – Das offizielle Handbuch

    Serendipity ist eines der bekannteren Blogsysteme, auch Mayflower setzt auf die Opensource Software. Kürzlich traf bei uns das offizielle Handbuch „Serendipity – Individuelle Weblogs für Einsteiger und Profis“ vom dem Serendipity-Kernentwickler Garvin Hicking ein. Mit 750 Seiten sicher mehr als eine Einführung fällt als erstes das zwölfseitige Inhaltsverzeichnis auf. Die elf Kapitel begleiten den kompletten…

  • Observing the MySQL Query Log

    Debugging an existing application can be hard to bootstrap. Sometimes it just helps to observe the queries a web application is sending to the database. Unfortunately, the MySQL Query log does not directly tell the user which query goes to which database.

  • Mayflower makes a security effort for PHPcity

    Since we at Mayflower put emphasis on security, we would like our readers to visit the following link: http://phpcity.myminicity.com/sec This will help decrease the crime rate in our lovely city. :-) Apart from that issue, a merry christmas and a happy new year to all our readers.

  • Spooky Action at not so much Distance

    Over the weekend i encountered a twist in PHP that really left me wondering. I made a mistake and i thought i should have gotten an error, or at least a warning. I got a completely unexpected behavior instead. According to our PHP Oracle this is just a legacy from PHP 4 though and there…

  • My Own Private WTF

    Just an example on what you can code that looks pretty correct… until it stops working Why would a JavaScript application stop working moving from 2007 to 2008? Why would a PHP script display January to July and then skip August and September, to then continue correctly with October through December?