Kategorie: Development

Welcome again! This year’s PHP Conference Spring Edition provides you with a bunch of first-class talks from the PHP experts. The first day of this three-day event starts with some PowerWorkshops. I’m currently sitting in the „XML & WebServices with PHP5 and PEAR“ workshop hosted by Tobias Schlitt and Stephan Schmidt, both very active members…

Great guys that are producing great OpenSource software and talking about that in their blogs. Be sure to add Planet MySQL to your RSS feedster. I’m currently looking forward to MySQL Workbench, the successor of DBDesigner from Mike Zinner (who joined the MySQL GUI team in the past).

A German press-release from Zend titles: „Die PHP-Architekten sind gleich dreifach auf der führenden Konferenz Europas für Java-Technologien vertreten“ Everybody knows that some blurbs are neccessary for a good marketing and PR work (in German we say „Klappern gehört zum Handwerk“). But I don’t think that it’s a good idea to claim to be the…

For one of our customers, the Vaillant Group (a leading European heating device manufacturer), we built a spare parts shop application for the web, including OCR recognition of exploded drawings. The web application is based on PHP/MySQL and has an imported catalogue of the SAP. Furthermore, the installers receive a CD with the shop application…

In the German channel #php.de/IRCNet people discuss every kind of stuff. Sometimes there are even discussions about PHP related topics. Today we had a discussion about having fun with casting in PHP.

Mayflower presents PDesk Timecard. The desktop client for timetracking is in alpha state and we encourage interested users to download and test it. Timecard runs on Windows with .NET Framework installed. After installation and starting you`ll find it in the IconTray running continuously and from beginning synchronizing with the demo on phprojekt.com. Timecard` smart usability…

After some preparation time, we are proud to announce that we will start with German Online Training Courses at the end of May. It’s a series of training courses with the title „PHP in the Enterprise“. Topics include „Developing database applications with PHP“, „PHP and PEAR“ (announced, not bookable) and „PHP and XML/WebService“ (will be…

PSync/Outlook is a outlook synchronisation tool for phprojekt. It synchronizes contact, calendar, todo and note data in both directions. It uses PEAR::Soap for PHP 4 and the builtin SOAP for PHP5 and is written in Delphi.

The issue 3.2005 of the German PHP Magazin can now be bought in your favorite bookstore. My article "Eingebettet" is about JavaScript based WYSIWYG editors like htmlArea, FCKeditor, Spaw, TinyMCE, Kevin Roth’s Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor, Mozile and Bitflux Editor. All these editors are open source software and working in IE 5.5.+, Mozilla 1.3+ and…