The Mahalo PHP Meetup was a lot of fun. Firstly, Sharon Levy had a great presentation with cool sound effects. That definitely gets your attention… It’s always good to watch the best techniques presenters use to engage the audience, and … Continue reading →

The time is just running and it's already time, again, for students to apply for this year's Google Summer of Code program. PHP and MySQL are among the list of 150 participating organizations. So if you're a student and are interested to learn how OpenSource works, do some networking with some famous people or just want a Google T-Shirt it's your time to take a look at the different idea pages (PHP, MySQL, others) or come up with an own idea and apply. Oh if accepted you even can earn some money as part of the program ...

I am working on Wordcraft, trying to get the last annoying HTML validation errors worked out.  Thinks like ampersands in URLs.  In doing so, I am asking myself where the escaping should take place. In the case of Wordcraft, there are several parts to it.

1. The code that pulls data from the database.  Obviously not the right place.
2. The code that formats data like dates and such.  It also organizes data from several data sources into one nice tidy array.  Hmm, maybe
3. The parts of the code that set up the output data for the templates.
4. The templates themselves.

Now, I am sure 1 is not the place.  And I really would not want 4 to be the place.  That would make for some ugly templating.  Plus, the templates, IMO, should assume the data is ready to be output.  So, that …

If you like to meet the CouchDB crowd, here are two good opportunities.

London

J Chris Anderson (@jchris) and I (@janl) are hosting a CouchDB meetup in central London this Saturday (March 21th). The plan so far is to hit an English Pub and share a few pints with friends.

We put up a wiki page where you can register (it’s free of course), so we know how much seats to look for. If you know a good place to got to, add your suggestion to the page, thanks!

Amsterdam

The following week, Chris & I will be in Amsterdam for ApacheCon EU. We’re looking at Wednesday 25th to meet up …

If you like to meet the CouchDB crowd, here are two good opportunities.

London

J Chris Anderson (@jchris) and I (@janl) are hosting a CouchDB meetup in central London this Saturday (March 21th). The plan so far is to hit an English Pub and share a few pints with friends.

We put up a wiki page where you can register (it’s free of course), so we know how much seats to look for. If you know a good place to got to, add your suggestion to the page, thanks!

Amsterdam

The following week, Chris & I will be in Amsterdam for ApacheCon EU. We’re looking at Wednesday 25th to meet up …

If you like to meet the CouchDB crowd, here are two good opportunities.

London

J Chris Anderson (@jchris) and I (@janl) are hosting a CouchDB meetup in central London this Saturday (March 21th). The plan so far is to hit an English Pub and share a few pints with friends.

We put up a wiki page where you can register (it’s free of course), so we know how much seats to look for. If you know a good place to got to, add your suggestion to the page, thanks!

Amsterdam

The following week, Chris & I will be in Amsterdam for ApacheCon EU. We’re looking at Wednesday 25th to meet up …

Meetup Mashup We just had a fun Programmer’s Schmooze this past Sunday with the PHP/MySQL & Semantic Web meetups. These informal meetings are a great chance to network with people from different disciplines. We had an interesting fellow join us … Continue reading →

Thanks to Expandrive . You can now use Subversion (SVN) on websites hosted at Mosso . The idea of mounting a directory you’d normally ftp/sftp to, and then using SVN on it, at first seemed oddly implausible to me. But, I tried it recently, and got exactly the results I wanted. I even had the repository hosted at Unfuddle . I think this post is fairly obvious, but if you have any questions feel free to ask in the comments.

There is now an alternative to setting up your own PHP environment. You can download a server-only OpenSolaris web stack and run it in
a virtual machine. XDebug, the PHP engine, Apache, and MySQL are preconfigured on the web stack. You can work on your PHP project in NetBeans IDE and use the FTP feature to deploy your PHP on the OpenSolaris web stack.

Follow these steps to use the OpenSolaris web stack:

1. Download the OpenSolaris web stack image and create a virtual machine for it.
2. Configure the network connection on the virtual machine.
3. Configure port forwarding.
4. Create an FTP connection in NetBeans for the web stack on the virtual machine.

See the tutorial Deploying PHP to a Server-only OpenSolaris Web Stack for detailed instructions for setting up the OpenSolaris web stack on Sun …

InitMarketing has made its calendar of world-wide conferences and trade fairs related to Free and Open Source Software, IT and specific industries available to the public.

It currently includes 122 events in 17 countries taking place in 2009. 43 of them in Germany, 69 in USA. We use this calendar when planing events for our customers, thus we’ll regularly update it. Please let us know of any events which are not on our radar yet by commenting to my blog or commenting at the bottom of the events page.