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…

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)