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  • PHP Unconference 2008 Hamburg

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    Last weekend the PHP Unconference took place in Hamburg. With about 120 participants it took awhile to vote for the offered talks but at the end more than 30 sessions appeared on the agenda for two days and that promised to be an exciting weekend. You’ll find all topics and summaries on PHP Unconference Wiki.…

  • Optimizing your front-end

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    Tobias Schlüter
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    The web 2.0 revolution has changed our understanding of the internet. Web sites are able to offer route calculations with high resolution maps, online-shops have real-time search delimitation and thousands of other services want to make our life easier. Modern web sites are full of features: Client-site logic in the form of JavaScript (AJAX), eye-catching…

  • Mayflower Barcamp: Developing a PHP extension for Skype

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    Andreas Uhsemann
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    At the Mayflower Barcamp a few weeks ago we had a very interesting and promising project: Develop a PHP extension for communication with Skype. Actually, this project was a merge between two projects: One was to „develop a PHP extension“ – five out of six project members never had written any PHP extension or did…

  • PHProjekt in Poland – Meeting with deputy prime minister

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    Albrecht Günther
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    Sometimes it is great to work for open source projects: Monday and Tuesday I was in Warzaw on the invitation of the deputy prime minister, Waldemar Pawlak. The topic of our meeting was the strategic use of PHProjekt as the project management tool in his Ministry of Economy and a possible indroduction as collaboration platform…

  • Zend Studio for Eclipse at first sight

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    Sarah Hermann
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    In January Zend Studio for Eclipse was released, it combines the Zend Studio technology and the Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tools) project. The download is available on zend.com, also the latest Zend Studio Toolbar if needed, you’ll find detailed product information on zend.com. The last few days I’ve started working with Zend Studio for Eclipse.…

  • Passing the Zend Certified Engineer exam

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    Florian Eibeck
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    After successfully passing the MySQL 5.0 Developer exams earlier this year the next step was preparing for the Zend Certified Engineer. For preparation I first took php|architect’s Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide from the bookshelf and started reading. The book gives a good overview of the topics covered in the exam and I even…

  • MySQL: Too many connections

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    Björn Schotte
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    Mit max_clients definiert man bei einem MySQL Server, wie viele Client Connections die Datenbank maximal akzeptiert. Wird diese Anzahl erreicht, können keine weiteren Verbindungen zur Datenbank gemacht werden und MySQL schmeißt uns den Fehler „Too many connections“ zurück. Bei großen Applikationen wie zum Beispiel Communities oder Shopsystemen kommt es durchaus vor, dass man nicht nur…

  • Moerfelden from an exhibitor’s view

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    Andreas Uhsemann
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    As regards the conference content, Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance with all kinds of sub topics like Testing, Debugging, Code Reviews and Security were topics relevant in a couple of sessions and workshops. Well, PHP is getting more and more matured. The keynotes were all worth mentioning, particularly Zak Greant who ended in pointing out…

  • SektionEins: your PHP Security Experts

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    Björn Schotte
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      While operating some time in the background for a while doing security audits like the one for phpBB3 (which resulted in RC6 and RC7 over the weekend), we’re now proud to officially launch our joint venture SektionEins GmbH together with the website in German and English (so yes, we’re doing also international Security Audits…