Hello world!
phpPatterns introduces a new pattern example on the (IMHO) most redundant software implementation world wide. It implements the "Hello world!" tool (which is a common way to start learning a new...
View ArticlePHPUGDO - Different presentations
Yesterday evening was the second meeting I attended of the PHP user group Dortmund. Sadly we've only been 5 people, although there are currently 12 members on the mailinglist. Since we wanna start some...
View ArticlePHPUGDO - Presentation day: 2005-06-02
As promised a while ago we'll have a bunch of presentations during the next PHP usergroup meeting in Dortmund. Sadly the date for this event was been moved several times, mainly because of my rare time...
View ArticleThe PHP OO candy store
The october issue of the International PHP Magazine has been published, including "The PHP OO candy store", an article about PHP5s cool OO features and SPL. The article looks cool and I was really...
View ArticleeZ components on Ohloh
I tried a several times to get eZ components (and other eZ projects) into Ohloh. Ohloh claims to do "Mapping the open source world by collecting objective information on open source projects", which...
View ArticleTim Bray compared Java, Ruby and PHP
During his keynote on the International PHP Conference 2006 Bray performed a little comparison between Java, Ruby (mainly Rails) and PHP. While I first thought, this could only be some dumb marketing...
View ArticleeZ Components class graph
Jakob (a good friend of mine from the PHP UG Dortmund) has written a bash script to create class graphs (non UML conform, but what shalls?) from a PHP source directory. The resulting SVG is generated...
View ArticleTaint mode for PHP?
Wietse Venema, the creator of the Postfix MTA, posted a proposal for a "taint mode" to the PHP internals list. Before commenting his proposal, I'd like to give a short intro about what a "taint mode" is:
View ArticleNice PHP code
At our weekly usergroup meeting, which is taking place just right now, we again discussed our beloved topic, the Ternary Operator. I like that thing really much and I believe it makes code much more...
View ArticleAvoid an endless pifall
During my current exam phase I'm working on some tiny private project to relax after learning. In there I'm using a main controller class, which implements a singleton pattern and initializes several...
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