Kategorie: Development

PHP has been used in the business for years. In fact, we and many other companies provided business-critical solutions based on PHP (or LAMP) for several years now. Magazines like PHP Magazin or web sites like PHP-Center.de or Dynamic-Webpages.de, not forgetting the world’s first PHP Conference that took place here in Germany provided the fruitful…

Frankly, PCP reminds me on an idea I had 6 to 12 months ago and briefly discussed it with Zak Greant (who discussed it with one of the inventors of the JCP, the Java Community Process with its JSR’s), IIRC Stig Bakken and others. We called it „PHP Community Process“. My basic concern was that…

I was doing some research with Google’s new blog search and came over to Craig Cmehil’s blog talking about a new book published by SAP press: The SAP developer’s guide to PHP. The book is talking about: So what does the book offer? Introduction to PHP SAPRFC module in practice Connections with PHP to the…

Rasmus made us think he was doing great work by developing PHP. But as you already could read in this mail a PhD(!) found out the truth about Rasmus: His stuff „is total crap“ and he isn’t „fit to write a single line of code“. That mail even includes some good advices for Rasmus, for…

Just seen at golem.de: http://google-apility.sourceforge.net/. According to golem.de, APIlity was developed by Google Germany and is designed for working with PHP4 and PHP5.

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)…