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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 .

Exploring Javascript

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:32:38 +0200

Yeah. On the weekend I recieved my copies of the book "Exploring Javascript", where I wrote a Chapter about JSON.

Beside my JSON chapter it covers the AJAX in General by Arne Blankerts, JavaScript OOP by Markus Nix and Unit Testing in JavaScript by Jörg Schaible.

Thank you Markus for asking me to take part in that project. Its a nice feeling holding the printed copies with my name on it in the hands.

If you like it drop me a mail.

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).

PHPUGDO 2nd anniversary

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:31:00 +0100

Now we celebrate the second anniversary of the PHP Usergroup Dortmund. 2 years of geeky and professional exchange, interresting talks, nice events like the php weekender and most important - the FRIENDSHIP.

2 years ago when I was searching for a usergroup in Dortmund and near surrounding there was none. But I couldnt believe that there are no PHP People in Dortmund at all. So I browsed phpug.de, but except one post in the forum nothing raised like this. So I decided that I want to change that and find others that share my interrests.

So I talked with Thomas Weinert on IRC and asked him to add a UG Dortmund to the page to get people together. I contacted the people from which I know they might be interrested and posted on the forums and so on.

The first 3 or 4 meetings we consistet of only 2-3 people (and around 5 interrested people I was aware of). In between by fortuity I read on Toby's blog that he is moving to Dortmund. After a bit searching I found his ICQ Number and contacted him, if he would like to visit us as well. He aggreed and helped by setting up a mailinglist for better synchronization. Soon after that more an more people registered to the list. Jakob (which I knew before over the web) also joined. And on the fifth meeting we consisted as far as I can remember of 5 or 6 people.

That was also the first day I meet Kore. I looked at his website when he registered to the list. And I first thought "OMG" when I saw that he tried to generate 3D with php. On one of the following meetings he also presented shortly was later became Image3D. It was impressive.

When I founded the UG in March 2005 I only hoped to find some guys which like to talk a bit about php. I never dreamed of the cool thing it became. A group of nice and friendly geeks with a high level of php knowledge.

I want to thank all of them for making this a success. The support with organization and hosting made the ball rolling very quickly.
I also want to thank eZ Systems for providing us with hardware and rooms for our meetings.

Seeing them every week (yes you read right, sometimes more often) at the meeting is always a thing I await happily.

Update: Toby also blogged about it.

New talks

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:00:00 +0100

After a longer period of talk-less but geek-rich meetings we will again have two talks.
Jan Lehnardt is so kind to hold two talks. We decided to split up the talks to two seperate dates. Next week on thursday, he will talk about "HTTP(S) Load Balancing und High Availability mit Wackamole". A week later on the 22nd march, he joins us to present "CouchDb" and how to use it with PHP.
Here are the talk details on german (copied from his email):
HTTP(S) Load Balancing und High Availability mit Wackamole

Ihr wollt weitere Webserver in Betrieb nehmen um mehr HTTP(S)-Requests zu bedienen als es eine einzelne Kiste koennte, aber ein dedizierter Load-Balancer ist euch zu teuer?

Ihr wollt staendig online sein, auch wenn mal eine Kiste oder ein Provider absemmelt, aber zwei (oder mehr) Load-Balancer sind nun wirklich zu teuer?

Ich stelle euch eine Moeglichkeit vor, wie man vorhandene Resourcen ideal ausnutzen kann um hochverfuegbar und lastverteilt zu arbeiten.

CouchDb[1] -- Eine Alternative zu MySQL?

Die wenigsten Daten sind per Definition relational. Hat z.B. schonmal jemand Baumstrukturen in SQL abgebildet und keine Krise bekommen? Sind die Daten eines Blogs relational, oder werden sie nur so abgebildet weil MySQL & Co das gerne so haben?

Relationale Datenbanken sind deswegen so erfolgreich, weil sie, wenn noetig, nicht auf die reine Lehre der Normalisierung bestehen sondern praxisrelevante Praktiken erlauben. Z.B wenn Geschwindigkeit oder Komplexitaet zu Problemen werden.

CouchDb ist von Haus aus garnicht relational sondern erlaubt, wo noetig, Beziehungen zwischen Daten explizit herzustellen. Ein Vorteil ist, dass Programmdaten viel einfacher Modelliert werden koennen. Diese Modellierungen entsprechen dem natuerlichen Character der Daten. Ein Resultat: Das Programmdesign und der Code werden einfacher.

CouchDb kommt ausserdem mit einer Vielzahl von Features, die es erlauben Systeme zu bauen, die sich unter hoher Last vorraussagbar verhalten und prima warten und skalieren lassen.

Ich erklaere ich euch warum CouchDb so cool ist, was es kann und wie ihr von PHP aus darauf zugreifen koennt. Und weil es so schoen ist, enthaelt das ganze einen Ueberblick ueber die Erlang/OTP Programmier-umgebung.

The talks will take from 60-90 minutes and will start around 18:30 or some minutes later.
Afterwards we will definately hack a bit around (most likely with the new stuff learned) as usual .
I am very happy that he holds the talks for us and meet him personally.
If you want to join, please register to our mailinglist. The talks will be hold at the eZ Systems office in Dortmund (http://phpugdo.de/Termine/Treffpunkt).

Update: Jan wrote an english announcement of the first talk in his blog

Presentation about PHPUnit

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:13:28 +0100

On January the 12th Sebastian Bergmann will be at the PHP Usergroup Dortmund and talk about PHP Unit.

The talk starts at 18:00h.

If you´re going to join it, please notice us on our Mailinglist.

The meeting will be at eZ systems in Dortmund.

PHP UG Presentations

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:14:54 +0200

As promised a while ago we’ll have a bunch of presentations during the next PHP usergroup

meeting in Dortmund.

When?	2nd of June 2005, 18:00
Where?	eZ Systems GmbH
Who?	Every PHP developer close enough to Dortmund is invited to join us!
Charge?	Nothing. The event is completly based on personal engagement.

Thanks a lot to eZ Systems for sponsoring a location and equipment! Find your way to eZ in Dortmund.

We will have talks on the following topics:

OOP Basics (Tobias Struckmeier)
- An introduction into object oriented development. (generally no source)
OOP Patterns (Tobias Schlitt)
- What are patterns? What aren’t they? Some examples…
XML (Jakob Westhoff)
- Sense and use of XML. (basics not XSLT)
PHPTAL (Andreas Malik)
- The concept of template engines on the example of PHPTAL.
DB Basics (Jrg Sprung)
- Database design, normalization,...
DB Abstraction (Adam Bagsik)
- The sense behind database abstraction and how to do it.
RegEx (Kore Nordmann)
- The magic behind working with text.

Every talk will be about 30 to 45 minutes and each is held by a member of the PHP usergroup Dortmund.

The number of talks we can do at this evening may vary, ‘cause of possible questions and discussions about the topic after the presentation.

And because i havent theft enough i agree with Tobys entry :

Would be cool to see some new faces also.

PHP Usergroup in Dortmund gegründet

nospam@example.com (Tobias Struckmeier) — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:30:36 +0100

Endlich hat auch Dortmund eine PHP Usergroup. Interessierte knnen sich an mich wenden bzw. weitere Informationen auf phpug.de erhalten