Kategorie: Development

If you read Jeremy Zawodny’s blog post, Yahoo! is currently searching for XUL developers (rumours said they want to deliver their PhotoMail application on a XUL based UI). There are some fancy and fantastic XUL applications out there, for example Bloxor or the Mozilla Amazon Browser. XUL stands in a row to Microsoft’s upcoming XAML…

For one of the projects of our key account Vaillant Group we are sending SMS. The supplier is BTN, a German company providing a SMS gateway. When we wrote the interface in our application, BTN only offered an XML and E-Mail gateway for sending SMSes. Fortunately I’ve seen that they now also offer sending it…

Potsdam is a beautiful city for one simple reason: It provides us with beautiful car plates. Since I am devoted to nice cars as well as I am to PHP, I have chosen the following one: P HP 111. Works fine for me!

Services_Webservice finally made it into PEAR. Phillipe Jausions and Matthew Fonda are now contributing to the project. We already released the first alpha version and ask everyone to download and test it. The package will/should do all the annoying stuff that comes to you when creating webservices, like: wsdl (webservice description language) creation disco (discovery)…

While reading the Apache jackrabbit mailing list, I found iCalShare.com, some kind of „social software“ (the current Hype, see NubNub, LinkedIn, openBC and stuff like that) for sharing calendars according to the iCal standard. The author of this project is Patrick Crowley who is also responsible for php iCalendar.

After some weeks of development, the php5-webservice project is born. This package with the name „Services_Webservice“ is similair to the .NET way of handling webservices and currently there is a call for votes on the pear website. The package does all the annoying stuff that comes to you when creating webservices, like: – wsdl (webservice…

PHP and PEAR Online Workshop On August, 16th, the Online Workshop „PHP im Unternehmenseinsatz: PHP & PEAR“ will start. Trainer Tobias Schlitt will guide you through the PEAR and PECL universe over the following six weeks. If you want to participate in this German language online course, just have a look at our partner’s website,…

Yes, it’s true: we are announcing „ThinkPHP Press“, a series of books dedicated to PHP in the Enterprise. Every year we’ll publish a book full packaged with our experience inside our projects. The first book will start with the latest new APIs in PHP5 (i.e. SOAP) combined with the best practice of our commercial projects.…

If you haven’t heard it already, this year’s LinuxTag features again the „LAMP Area“, a big booth featuring a lot of companies (including ours, Mayflower/ThinkPHP) and OpenSource projects. Like last year, there are a lot of sessions dedicated to the LAMP stack. I have the honour to open this LAMP Area sessions with a session…