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…

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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:…

Thanks to Tobias who reminded about the photos, you can watch them in my picture gallery.

I joined Christopher’s session about the PayPal API. He quickly stepped through his last year’s presentation about PayPal to explain to the audience what and who PayPal is. PayPal offers different APIs, from normal HTTP POST requests with HTTP redirection to a modern SOAP API. Unfortunately, the SOAP API only provides 3 method calls, so…

I attended the talk of John Coggeshall from Zend, „WebServices in PHP5“. John gave a quick overview about what web services are and how the protocol looks like. He didn’t go into further details explaining the XML of SOAP (which seemed to be a good decision because it’s very complex and not easy to understand…