Sometimes some has to process a huge amount of data, applying stupid tests and formulas. There I was and stuck on low performance problem. The obvious way is to implement the critical part (the stupid tests and formula in C and process the data using the C implementation only), sadly it’s often not even possible…

ZendStudio has become my IDE of choice. I was formerly addicted to vim which I’m using now when I don’t have ZDE there or something has to be „hotfixed“ on the server. It’s great that Zend is making early access builds available and you can see how the IDE matures and matures. My wishlist: direct…

In addition to Johannes‘ blog entry, my experience with PHP5 is also a positive one: we are using it since PHP5.0beta3 in production for an international project at Vaillant where external systems (VB.NET, Java) are accessing the systems‘ functions with a SOAP interface. I chose PHP5 and the corresponding ext/soap for this because the SOAP…

About one week ago i did the about 3526th most important thing in my live: my development platform is no longer php4, it’s php5 now. since i (and my customers, more important) are depending on a stable development environment, that’s not as simple as it may seem. And – surprise, surprise – everything went fine,…