This sucks. I don't know how else to put it. My friend Wyatt Ammon is no more. Gone. He left in July, to do some good for the world. He joined the PEACE Corps. So, today I get a call, saying Wyatt Ammon is no more. It's strange, I think he was two years younger than me. One of the nicest guys I ever met, a kindred spirit. He tried very hard to beat me at tennis, we had agreed to play again in two years, once he was back from Zambia. When he left, I figured it was just a temporary thing, we all thought, we'd see him again in two years. But, I guess we won't. This blog belongs to one of his friends. I guess it's good that atleast he didn't die a horrible tortured death, nor did he suffer in bed for a long time, that should be some consolation I guess. But.. Wyatt.. is gone.. no more beers after tennis, no more talks about what life …

This sucks. I don’t know how else to put it. My friend Wyatt Ammon is no more. Gone. He left in July, to do some good for the world. He joined the PEACE Corps. So, today I get a call, saying Wyatt Ammon is no more. It’s strange, I think he was two years younger than me. One of the nicest guys I ever met, a kindred spirit. He tried very hard to beat me at tennis, we had agreed to play again in two years, once he was back from Zambia. When he left, I figured it was just a temporary thing, we all thought, we’d see him again in two years. But, I guess we won’t. This blog belongs to one of his friends. I guess it’s good that atleast he didn’t die a horrible tortured death, nor did he suffer in bed for a long time, that should be some consolation I guess. But.. Wyatt.. is gone.. no more beers after tennis, no more talks about …

Mit der neuen Ausgabe des PHP Magazins, die am heutigen Tag an den Kiosken erscheint, beleuchten wir den Einsatz der neuen ext/mysqli Extension in PHP. Kai Voigt, Trainer und Consultant bei MySQL, führt Sie auf sechs Seiten durch die neue Extension, die ab PHP 5 zur Verfügung steht und speziell auch die neuen Features von MySQL 4.1 unterstützt.

Weitere Themen in dieser Ausgabe:

• GPS für Webseiten (Google Sitemaps)
• Eigene Streamwrapper in PHP realisieren
• Vorstellung des PHP Frameworks PRADO
• Location Based Services mit PHP
• PHP Extensions im Eigenbau
• und und und ...

Seit ein bis zwei Ausgaben hat auch das Grafikteam des Software & Support Verlags fleissig Hand an das Layout gelegt und das Erscheinungsbild des Magazins weiter optimiert. Das Magazin …

Congratulations to Masoud and his whole team at S&S Media, the publishing house that's very active in the IT area and also supports PHP through:

• PHP Magazin (German edition - btw, the current issue has been published today and we have a lot of good articles in there, like the cover stories about ext/mysqli and design patterns for PHP)
• The International PHP Conference Spring and Fall edition
• some PHP books at their entwickler.press
• and, finally, the International PHP Magazine

The website php-mag.net was relaunched today. In …

Here are the slides from our fellow Alexander Aulbach. The cluster slides are available both in German and English. Feel free to contact him directly if you have any questions.

MySQL Cluster (German language): MySQL-Cluster.pdf
MySQL Cluster (English language): MySQLCluster_en.pdf
Chomsky Typ3 Sprachen oder "Hab Spaß mit RegEx": KomskyTyp-3Sprachen.pdf

Did you know that MySQL Cluster has been available since MySQL 4 within the Max distribution (IIRC 4.1 series)? So just grab your copy at mysql.com (of course the new 5.x series :-) and play with the cluster.

As promised, here's now the first part of the slides from the International PHP Conferences. The sessions I gave were the introduction for the Management Day, "100,000 SQLite installations - lessons learned" (and where the borders are in regards to the usage of MySQL) and "WebServices with PHP5".

Download Management Day slides: phpconf05_managementday.pdf
Download SQLite slides: phpconf05_sqlite.pdf
Download WebServices with PHP5 talk: phpconf05_webservices_php5.pdf

Well the past 8 weeks of my life have had a lot of ups and downs I must say but it feels like its all finally paid off. I got to launch a new site on Friday that I'm really happy with. I got to work with some great team members and we all pulled together and created an awesome site, or at least I think so! Club SOAPnet launched on friday without a hitch. There are a couple of small things missing and should be a nice easy week of clean up. I spent a lot of time before beginning development working on the data model and looking through PEAR to see what packages will help me out. Some of the challenges were integrating with the Disney Global Registration system but that worked out in the end using curl to keep a seemless login process. It was nice not having to worry about storing sensitive data for once thanks Disney for taking that off my shoulders. I coded the whole site in about 5 weeks time …

Well the past 8 weeks of my life have had a lot of ups and downs I must say but it feels like its all finally paid off. I got to launch a new site on Friday that I'm really happy with. I got to work with some great team members and we all pulled together and created an awesome site, or at least I think so! Club SOAPnet launched on friday without a hitch. There are a couple of small things missing and should be a nice easy week of clean up. I spent a lot of time before beginning development working on the data model and looking through PEAR to see what packages will help me out. Some of the challenges were integrating with the Disney Global Registration system but that worked out in the end using curl to keep a seemless login process. It was nice not having to worry about storing sensitive data for once thanks Disney for taking that off my shoulders. I coded the whole site in about 5 weeks time …

Yesterday, the International PHP Conference 2005 closed its doors. So far, it was very nice to see all the people again and have some good time. Luckily, there was enough free beer at the VIP Reception and the PHP Lounge. :-) This year, we introduced some new events:

The Management Day: you know, attendees usually are not only the smaller or mid-sized companies. Mostly, companies like Deutsche Telekom, Siemens and other companies send 3-10 people from their department to this Conference to catch up with the latest hot development in the PHP scene. This year, we tried to provide a separate day fully dedicated to the topic "PHP in the Enterprise". I think we pretty much succeeded. We invited companies like T-Online (a subsidiary company of Deutsche Telekom), HypoVereinsbank (one of …

With some inspiration from Ben Ramsey i created a little demo for using my md5 database during the signup process on a website.

This example demonstrates the use of the MD5 database at http://md5.rednoize.com and AJAX to check password strength during signup on a website. After supplying a username and a password, a md5 hash of the password is generated using Paul Johnston's md5 javascript library.

The hash of the password (not the password itself) is then sent to http://md5.rednoize.com. If the website returns a result for the given password (hence the hash password combination is stored in the md5 database) it can be regarded as …