Brainsugar - PHP

Conference marathon

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:29:00 +0200

This year promises to become a small PHP conference marathon. Lets look where I will be:

Date	Title	Location
5. - 6. Mai	PHP Unconference Hamburg	Hamburg / Germany
21. - 23. Mai	IPC Spring Edition / Webinale	Stuttgart / Germany
6. - 8. Juni	eZ Conference / PHP Vikinger	Skien / Norway
25. - 26. August	PHP @ Froscon	Sankt Augustin / Germany
more to come...

So I can say, for sure this will be an exiting PHP year for me .

CouchDB talk at PHP UG Dortmund by Jan Lehnardt

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:26:25 +0100

Again Jan Lehnardt visits us for the already announced talk about CouchDB.
If you are interrested we will be happy about your attendance.

Date: Mar 22th 2007

Time: 18:30

Location: eZ Systems Dortmund

If you are attend, please give us a short info via email or on IRC (#phpug@EUIRC).

Information molochs

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:41:35 +0200

Google and Microsoft started providing personalized information portals with RSS Feeds, Wheater Data and so on, with the use of ajax and some drag&drop dhtml they provide an easy customizeable center of information with great user experience.

In the PHP Usergroup Dortmund some members also signed up for this service. I dislike this data collection acquisitiveness of google more and more. I asked why they use it. As answer there was "Because it is cool and easy", "There is no other service like them".

So i decided to rescue my friends from these data molochs and started to code a portal where you also can change the structure with drag&drop and see all interesting rss feeds personalized on one page. Now it is able to handle multiple users with skin support integrated search and translation. Sure the 3 hour quick and dirty code is not enough for a glory, but the system works and the people are happy using it. So i think – MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, PEOPLE SAVED -.

Cause i have much interesting new ideas and the impulse to write it clean and nice i would like to ask if somebody out there is also interested in it? What licence should it be (some sort of opensource)? What features would be great? I would be happy if some people also response.

Why PHP is cool

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:55:00 +0200

Some days ago, i needed a small Content Management System for our company page. And the old questions came along. Build dirty include-o-rama somewhat page, or use a full featured blown up Content Management System available on the net?

Cause all the big systems where oversized, I startet to make a little experiment. What i needed was system which is easily manageable for people who dosent make webpages all day. It should be able to make use of modules for some needs like nice html forms, polls, databaseoutput and so on. For easily customizing it should support some kind of templates. Not at least it should have user friendly and search engine friendly urls like domain.tld/company/aboutus and so on.

So i startet to code it plain down (ugly procedural code) with just a tiny bit of time used for it. Now i have a CMS which fits all the above needs. And the funny thing is, it is only about 90 lines of code long.

I think it shows how much is possible with such a little effort by using php. Ive talked to some other php people and they find the approach also very cool. We had a big bunch of features discussed. Some quite geeky, some really usefull. So i decided to make it open source and work on it with them. It seemd that it will transform in some kinda Modular CMS Toolkit whatever . When we recode it to structured clean oop code with some additional futures we will publish it. So stay tuned .

Ah before i forgot: We already had a name for it PureEnergy.

UPDATE: Fixed some misspelling.

Gmail drive for php

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:35:57 +0200

I dont know if i ever need this but it is quite cool to have php access to Gmail-Drive.

Dont have a Gmail account? Ask me i have a bunch of invitations free.

Pretty cool

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Wed, 04 May 2005 22:14:21 +0200

This is pretty cool FlexySVN.

Well i think i should also play a little bit with XUL.

PHPUGDO - Presentations

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:50:21 +0200

Tobias Schlitt already published that the Usergroup Dortmund is going to hold some sessions about the following topics:

XML (basics)
OO (basics)
OO (patterns)
Templates (PHPTAL)
DB abstraction (MDB2)

In addition to that, we have another topic on the list "Basics of database design". Also the date of the presentations will change to one meeting later.

Maybe we cant do all the sessions on one day. But well try .

More proposals are still welcome.

PHP UG Dortmund wächst

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:01:59 +0200

Die Dortmunder PHP Usergroup wchst. Beim nchsten Treffen rechne ich mit 6 Teilnehmern. Finde ich fr die kurze Zeit der Existenz ermutigend.

Zentrales Austauschmedium wird jetzt die Mailingliste sein. Tobias Schlitt war so freundlich diese Einzurichten.

Das nchste Treffen hat noch keinen Festen Termin. Wenn noch jemand kommen mchte so kann er sich ber die Mailingliste an der Terminsuche beteiligen.