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  • eBay Slides

    With the permission from Dr. Alexander Schwinn you can find the slides of his talk here.

  • eBay, a WebService Power House

    Live from the Management-Day at the International PHP Conference 2006. Dr. Alexander Schwinn, eBay GmbH Germany and Manager Developers Program, is reporting some quite interesting numbers about the usage of eBay WebServices:   more than 40,000 registered eBay developers world-wide more than 1,200 productive applications in DE 2002: less than 1 billion eBay WebService calls…

  • IPC06: PHP in large projects

    Yesterday I had a Power Workshop (6 hours) about large projects with PHP. You can find the (German) slides here. Besides that, there were some very interesting talks in the evening at the hotel bar together with the almighty Stefan Esser, Christopher Kunz and Johann-Peter Hartmann. Today is the second pre-conference day, at 10.00 o’clock…

  • Willkommen in der Möhrenmatrix

    Zitat des Tages von Dr. Volker G. beim Sinnieren über Fibonacci-Extrapolation und der Wahl zwischen roter und blauer Pille: „Das ist dann die Möhrenmatrix“.

  • Use information disclosure to gather PHP configuration statistics

    Damien Seguy from nexen.net sent an e-mail with a notice about his newest statistics project: „PHP configuration statistics“. He gathered output of around 12,000 public available phpinfo() scripts. Some of the results of his investigations: Here are some funny and not so funny stats. PHP admins likes to compile PHP in Summer Register global is…

  • Tag the International PHP Conference 2006

    If you happen to be at this year’s International PHP Conference 2006 which will start this Sunday, and are creating content of whatever form (be it photos, videos, slides etc.), don’t forget it to tag it with the tag „ipc06“. Check regularly at Flickr, Technorati, Del.icio.us, this blog and others. Hope to see you there!

  • Strange stuff in OpenSuse

    Today, I found a strange thing happening in a Suse 10 installation: There is a strange file /usr/sbin/screen in the filesystem that is not what one would expect it to be

  • Chorizo available for French customers: win an iPod Nano!

    Today, we’re announcing a reselling partnership between Mayflower GmbH and Waterproof S.A.R.L., makers of PHP IDE PHPEdit and a French based company. They’re reselling the Chorizo! software to their customers and in their local country France. You can view the product page on their website. If you happen to be on Forum PHP in Paris…

  • SOAP API of spreadshirt.net

    I just came across an old entry of the Exciting Ecommerce blog (German) which tells that Spreadshirt.net, one of Germany’s hottest Internet startups, has a SOAP interface. spreadshirt.net itself seems to be developed in PHP, and so I started my IDE and played a bit with it. At the moment, it seems to be just…