Kategorie: Development

Happy Birthday, PHP! And thanks a lot for the fish, Rasmus! Without you and all the others from the PHP community PHP wouldn’t be such a successful project. My brief history about getting in touch with PHP: back in 1998, playing with PHP3 and subscribing to the German speaking mailing list hosted and administrated by…

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…

Ever wanted to know why everyone talks about SQLite? Well, it’s simple like that: SQLite is damn small and very very fast. As a Senior Developer for Mayflower/Würzburg it was my pleasure (uhuum) to lead the Spare Parts Project for Vaillant Group. 100.000 CD’s are already shipped running PHP with SQLite locally – mind the…

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…

T-20 until LinuxTag Official press release (German) Contact us if you’re interested how the Next Generation of OpenSource Groupware can help you and your company or governmental organisation. Featured AddOn highlights: protocol module module designer Outlook Sync (with support for Palm and PocketPC on the way) project reporting WebDAV support a completely revisited helpdesk and…

If you use PHP on the command line you most probably know the -r parameter to execute one line of code. This feature is quite nice but it’s hard to keep the quoting right. Depending on which quotes (single or double) and shell you are using you might even need to keep attention on escaping…

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:…