Kategorie: Development

I like this idea, having live talks online about php or related topics. Ilia will give a talk about performace and php in the 2nd Live Talk of PHP|Symphony. Having seen Ilia’s talk about similar topics (and discussed them a lot), it’s worth the price to attend, and learning php performance, with croissant, coffee and…

This week I gave a two-days power workshop "PHP in big projects" ("PHP in Großprojekten", as it was in German) on the conference "Entwicklertage", organized by the Software & Support publishing house. One of the topics was to tell how companies save millions of Euros by choosing PHP (like E.ON, for example) instead of Java.…

Just have a look at this wonderful image. It shows a PHP5 poster, sponsored by Zend and our company and designed by one of our employees and me, that tells you about all the new things that come with PHP5. From the new object-orientated model to the new PHP extensions like SimpleXML, mysqli, sqlite, SPL…

The last couple of days I was reading the book „Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit PHP5“ written by Sebastian Bergmann. Sebastian has a nice style of describing parts of software engineering with less words like other authors. Because of this the book has only 200 pages but it’s really cheap with 29 EUR for a technical literature.

It’s great what ideas RPC applications can unleash. Just see the experimental color picker. (Found at Livehacker blog)

There are several possibilities to use mod_php4 and mod_php5 in parallel on the same Apache 1.3.x server. For example, if you have plenty of free IPs, you could just set up a new nameserver entry to assign two host names to two different IPs and then use two Apache instances, both running on port 80…

At one of our projects for the Vaillant Group, we were faced with the problem that the portals should be visible on a MDA in the Pocket Internet Explorer. Fortunately, this isn’t a real problem since Chairman, our framework and portal solution, is able to handle multi portals on one installation. We can detect the…

<Derick> he says it works already, but as a hack <tony2001> well, I like hacks =) <Pierre_> do we need anything else than a stack of hacks? <Pierre_> as far as they work :) <tony2001> Apache(a stack of patches) + PHP(a stack of hacks) = web-server =) .

Not really new, but I did not read the GD site that much :) In GD 2.0.26 (Changelog), they backport my antialiasing function introduced in php 4.3: „Drastically faster, less memory-intensive antialiased drawing, thanks to Pierre-Alain Joye. This code was imported from the PHP ‚fork‘ of gd.“ They should backport the ellipse and filling functions…