Kores random thoughts
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Released PHPillow 0.2-alpha
by Kore Nordmann at Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:37:29 +0200
CouchDB 0.8.1-alpha has just been released, and so I am doing a second release of PHPillow. The test suite runs just fine against this version of CouchDb. Thanks to the CouchDB team for its awesome work on this new and refreshing kind of database.
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Released PHPillow 0.1-alpha
by Kore Nordmann at Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:43:15 +0200
CouchDB 0.8-alpha has just been released, and so I am doing a first release of PHPillow. The test suite runs just fine against this version of CouchDb. Thanks to the CouchDB team for its awesome work on this new and refreshing kind of database.
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Detecting URLs with PCRE
by Kore Nordmann at Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:17:17 +0200
Form time to time I experience the issue that I should detect URLs in some text, while neither the URLs are standard conform (regarding the used characters), nor the URLs are strictly separated from other stuff by whitespaces or something. Now Derick asked me to provide him with a regular expression for that, and I finally wrote some, which should work in most cases...
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New features in eZ Components Graph 1.3
by Kore Nordmann at Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:42:06 +0200
There are some interesting new features in the driver part of the graph component of the eZ components - one thing I even thought is "impossible" until some external submission...
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Published PHP charset/encoding FAQ
by Kore Nordmann at Sat, 31 May 2008 19:27:40 +0200
After lots of questions recently on IRC about charsets and encodings, I decided to write up a FAQ about this. The FAQ can now be found in the article section of my website. If you know a better location for this, got additional questions and / or answers feel free to send me a mail about it.
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PHP charset/encoding FAQ
by Kore Nordmann at Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:58:27 +0200
This is list of frequently asked questions about charsets and encodings within the PHP ecosystem. It also answers some general charset and encoding questions, as it answers HTTP related questions. If you know about other related common questions feel free to send it to one of the authors.
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FrOSCon 2008 reminder
by Kore Nordmann at Thu, 29 May 2008 14:04:11 +0200
One of the most interesting OpenSource related events in central europe will happen again in August this year: The FrOSCon. We hope to see you there, as the PHP Usergroup Dortmund again organizes, together with the PHP Usergroup Koeln/Bonn, a PHP track. The call for papers will end in a very few days at 02.06, so ensure you sent us your papers until then.
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PHPillow - a PHP CouchDB wrapper
by Kore Nordmann at Fri, 23 May 2008 14:36:44 +0200
I now talked several times in my blog about CouchDb and gave a talk on the PHP Unconference on this together with Nils. I started to use it quite some time ago and now decided to extract the wrapper I am using, which proved to work quite well.
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Traits & Active Record
by Kore Nordmann at Wed, 21 May 2008 12:10:56 +0200
Sebastian Deutsch blogs about the use of Traits for implementing Active Record in PHP. With traits, possibly implemented sometime in the future of PHP (5.4?), you at least do not destroy your object semantics anymore - even several problems persist with AR, as discussed earlier.
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ElePHPant & Photos
by Kore Nordmann at Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:32:46 +0100
As a christmas present from Toby I finally received my personal elephpant plush toy. YAY! And thanks to Damien, who made this wonderful plush toy possible. The picuture has of course been taken with another of my christmas present, a DSLR...
