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  • The SAP developer’s guide to PHP

    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…

  • The truth about Rasmus the Lamer

    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…

  • Mayflower beruft Marketing- und Sales-Manager

    Tobias Kaufmann, 31, übernimmt bei Mayflower ab 1. September 2005 die neu geschaffene Position eines Marketing- und Sales-Manager. Er soll Geschäftsführer Björn Schotte, bei Mayflower verantwortlich für die Bereiche Marketing & Sales, beim weiteren Ausbau der Aktivitäten in diesem Bereich unterstützen. Neben der Kundenakquise, der Messekonzeption und –betreuung wird es seine Aufgabe sein, das Profil…

  • Google AdWords API for PHP: APIlity

    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.

  • Is XUL the next hot topic after AJAX?

    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…

  • Sending SMS with PHP extension

    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…

  • Car plate extravaganza

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    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

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    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)…

  • iCalshare: „Social Software“ back in 2002

    While reading the Apache jackrabbit mailing list, I found iCalShare.com, some kind of „social software“ (the current Hype, see NubNub, LinkedIn, openBC and stuff like that) for sharing calendars according to the iCal standard. The author of this project is Patrick Crowley who is also responsible for php iCalendar.