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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…
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“Real” Javascript Sockets!
I could not find a single way to have real sockets in Javascript. Google told me that there probably is no solution except embeding a java applet or an active-x component! So I thought why not using a little .swf file as a bridge from javascript to the socket functions of flash! You can see…
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Announcing release of PHProjekt V5.0.2 and the beta release of V5.1
Wow! Our development team did a terrific job baking some new releases this week. While Albrecht is enjoying his holidays very much, I can feel the sweat of the team preparing everything for launching in time two releases. The 5.0 branch got a new release: 5.0.2. It mainly is a bug fix release and marks…
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Real life SOAP: connecting your browser to a VoIP PBX
VoIP is not only fun with Skype. Instead, your company might use OpenSource solutions like Asterisk or even more proprietary solutions like an Innovaphone VoIP infrastructure. Here at Mayflower, we’re using two Innovaphone IP800 gateways at each of our departments (Munich and Würzburg). They are connected to each other and replicate their data. Besides that,…
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phpMyFAQ: a popular OpenSource FAQ management system
Our employee and Mayflower Fellow Thorsten Rinne develops and maintains in his sparse free time a popular FAQ management system called phpMyFAQ. Its current release is V1.6 (see press coverage on golem.de) and phpMyFAQ is licensed under MPL. Popular users of phpMyFAQ are: Stanford University, Apple, the German telecommunication company Arcor, some big E-Commerce company,…
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PSync: PHProjekt’s Sync tools (and what ThinkForge is all about)
You may have seen the ThinkForge.org platform (which basically is based on GForge). It’s our internal and external development platform, mainly for our OpenSource projects like PHProjekt, PSync from us and our friends. I just wanted you to point at PSync, one of our flagship add-ons to our GPL licensed PHProjekt groupware. PSync is a…
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Call for Papers: International PHP Conference 2006, 5th – 8th Nov, Frankfurt/Main
This is just a public reminder for the Call for Papers of the November Conference. Like last year, we invite everybody to submit session proposals for the International PHP Conference. This year’s Conference features a track about Security, a topic that will be more and more important. The Conference is splitted into the first two…
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Web2.0 (In)Security
On the webmontag.de gathering at Munich, Johann gave a session about „Web2.0 (In)Security“. With the emerge of more and more Web2.0 applications Security is a must for every developer. Johann explained for example why XSS hurts more in Web2.0 than in Web1.0. You can download the slides here (attention, German language). Web2.0 also seems to…