My research paper titled “Towards an Approach for Stakeholder-Oriented Elicitation and Identification of Concerns in EA” was published in the conference proceedings of the PoEM 2011 – The 4th IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling. The conference took place in Oslo, Norway from November 2-3, 2011. Here is the abstract: The … Read more →

The German PHP 5 cookbook in a new and completely revised 3rd edition with information on the new PHP 5.3. Collected knowledge of American and German PHP experts. It contains hundreds of well-approved “recipes” including explanations of the new PHP features. Read more →

Todays company performance depends on powerful business software. But what part has business software in a company’s success and how can this success be identified and safeguarded? This book describes the solutions of 14 companies, using the proven eXperience method. Read more →

I used my vacation to update the looks of this website. Blog and site are now driven by the same software. Before I was using the Zend Framework for the website and WordPress for the blog. Site updates weren’t complicated before but now I can make changes even faster and do not have to bother … Read more →

Book published by the VDM Verlag – Written by Carsten Lucke When developing applications, about 50% of the total development costs are spent for the graphical user interface (GUI). For “GUI-heavy” applications this percentage is even higher. Working without a proper plan and a well structured software architecture is dangerous and can lead to immense … Read more →

Published in PHP Magazin 6.08 by Carsten Lucke The adoption of caching techniques allows to increase an applications performance significantly. Especially complex and time consuming operations can benefit from using a cache.

From 4th – 6th July the Bavarian championships in rescue swimming of the DLRG took place in Neumarkt, Germany. My team and I won in the open age-group (male) and are now qualified for the German championships in October which will take place in Paderborn, Germany.

Published in PHP Magazin 5.08 by Carsten Lucke Programming desktop applications in PHP? Yes, that’s possible. Usually the PHP-GTK extension to accomplish this task. GTK is available for a lot of operating systems and thus quite portable. However, GTK applications often have a different look that distinguishes them from native applications. For Mac OS X … Read more →

Published in PHP Solutions magazine by Matthias Brusdeylins and Carsten Lucke After an extensive beta-test Zend went public early this year with the final version of Zend Studio for Eclipse (ZSfE). The most important functions – besides the IDE being based on the Eclipse platform – are code generation abilities, refactoring, debugging and profiling and … Read more →

I wrote an introductory article on the Zend Framework for the german t3n-Magazin. It is published in issue #11 and covers all the stuff you should know, to get started with the Zend Framework. Read more →

It’s been a while since my last article but finally I had some time and managed to write for the german PHP-Magazin, again. To my surprise my article was even chosen as cover-topic. Yippieh! I wrote about PHP- and web-development on Mac OS X using TextMate.

At the annual members meeting 2007 of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure Berlin/Brandenburg (VDI) me and other fantastic graduates got honored for an outstanding final study degree.

Packt Publishings PEAR book (PHP Programming with PEAR) has finally been published. PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository, and is a framework and distribution system for reusable, high-quality PHP components, available in the form of “packages”. I co-authored this book together with my very good friend Stephan Schmidt, and Stoyan Stefanov and Aaron … Read more →