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Björn Schotte
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Björn Schotte ist geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Mayflower GmbH und Senior Consultant im Umfeld von Software- und Agilen Organisations-Themen. Er twittert unter @BjoernSchotte und ist auf Xing sowie LinkedIn erreichbar. Seine Vorträge finden sich bei Slideshare.

  • AJAX Showcases: the good, the bad and the ugly

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    Björn Schotte
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    Found at the namics blog: the presentation of David Nuescheler, „AJAX Showcases: the good, the bad and the ugly“ from the EuroAjax conference. Very nice. The presentation is available as PDF or as Flash. David gives his opinion through showcasing the HTTP Request analysis of several AJAX based applications.

  • Creating desktop-like applications on the web

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    Andreas Uhsemann
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    We recently were asked to make an offer to create a web based solution for a desktop software. Visually we only had some screenshots of the original desktop application. To make it easier for the customer to decide how a possible solution could look as a web application, we tried to create a prototype looking…

  • “Real” Javascript Sockets!

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    manfred
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    I could not find a single way to have real sockets in Javascript. Google told me that there probably is no solution except embeding a java applet or an active-x component! So I thought why not using a little .swf file as a bridge from javascript to the socket functions of flash! You can see…

  • Announcing release of PHProjekt V5.0.2 and the beta release of V5.1

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    Björn Schotte
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    Wow! Our development team did a terrific job baking some new releases this week. While Albrecht is enjoying his holidays very much, I can feel the sweat of the team preparing everything for launching in time two releases. The 5.0 branch got a new release: 5.0.2. It mainly is a bug fix release and marks…

  • Real life SOAP: connecting your browser to a VoIP PBX

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    Björn Schotte
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    VoIP is not only fun with Skype. Instead, your company might use OpenSource solutions like Asterisk or even more proprietary solutions like an Innovaphone VoIP infrastructure. Here at Mayflower, we’re using two Innovaphone IP800 gateways at each of our departments (Munich and Würzburg). They are connected to each other and replicate their data. Besides that,…

  • MAYFLOWER first company to certify all its employees for MySQL

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    Björn Schotte
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    Munich/Würzburg, 2006-05-30: MAYFLOWER, internationally reknown with its brand ThinkPHP in the PHP/LAMP world, is proud to announce that it has certified all its developers for MySQL Core and is the first ISV worldwide that has achieved this. Read the official press release (German only) at mysql.de.

  • XTech Slides

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    marketing
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    Hi Here are my Slides from the xtech. Until now it was a wonderful conference with a heavy load of informations. Remarkable is the lot of mozilla developers beeing here. So quite a interesting conference and worth a visit. So if you missed it this year, you might be there next year. So far, thanks…

  • Weather Man

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    Martin Brotzeller
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    Somebody across the street just tried to better the weather [*] The guy came out about 5 minutes after it started raining and cleaned the outside of the window without any kind of security cord (the window is on the 3rd floor) [Update]: Now there’s two of them and it works! It already stopped raining!…

  • phpMyFAQ: a popular OpenSource FAQ management system

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    Björn Schotte
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    Our employee and Mayflower Fellow Thorsten Rinne develops and maintains in his sparse free time a popular FAQ management system called phpMyFAQ. Its current release is V1.6 (see press coverage on golem.de) and phpMyFAQ is licensed under MPL. Popular users of phpMyFAQ are: Stanford University, Apple, the German telecommunication company Arcor, some big E-Commerce company,…